What is the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) doing?
The Economic and Specialist Crime Command, is committed to combating organised financial crime throughout London. Identity fraud impacts on many of our investigations as both a precursor and crime enabler. Operation Sterling is the MPS strategy for combating economic crime in London through a proactive interventionist approach. A Proactive Prevention Team works to identify areas of weakness that are being exploited by organised criminal networks and takes preventative action to disrupt them. The Fraud Alert website (http://www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/) is an advice site, administered by Operation Sterling to inform and advise potential victims of financial crime and industry, providing information to aid prevention and create disruption to criminal enterprises. Our approach has seen us forge partnerships with both public and private industry including eBay, Western Union and APACS (http://www.banksafeonline.org.uk/) to proactively identify and prevent victims being defrauded. Sterling
