TechUK Calls for Collaboration Between Police and Industry

A TechUK report has called for the collaboration between police and industry in a bid to tackle cybercrime at a local and regional level.

TechUK, which represents the tech industry in the UK, wants to raise the standards of reporting, recording and responding to cybercrime by encouraging the collaboration between police and industry. The report, which includes data from freedom of information requests to all UK police forces and interviews with police and industry stakeholders, comes just after the ONS included cybercrime in its official statistics.

James Murphy, Associate Director for Defence and Security at TechUK, said:

"Digital technology is revolutionising the way criminals operate.

"Police forces have made a number of positive steps to meet the challenge in recent years but they cannot meet it on their own.

"It's only by working in partnership with the cyber security industry that the police can access the skills, capacity and reach that they desperately need."

TechUK also found that approximately 50 per cent of UK police forces surveyed could not supply accurate data of cybercrime reports without manually analysing every crime recorded in their system.

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