What benefit is it bringing to police forces?
The NFIB is taking reports of fraud from organisations and members of the public, which would not normally have been seen by the police. It is therefore providing valuable intelligence for forces which might previously have taken many analysts hours/days to identify. In addition, by looking across many individual fraud datasets, it is establishing links between fraudsters and their criminal activities, which may not have been identified by the individual organisations subject to the fraud. This is helping identify fraudsters that have previously avoided detection by flying underneath the radar. This provides forces with a more complete set of information than would previously be the case, which has a considerable impact on the investigator time required to develop a fraud case. In addition, encouraging members of the public to make certain fraud reports direct to Action Fraud, rather than individual police force, is saving the time needed to record those frauds at the police station fr
