Crime
Fraud offences rise by a quarter post-pandemic
According to the Office for National Statistics, this was driven by large increases in advance fee fraud and consumer and retail fraud
Fraud and computer misuse offences have increased “substantially” over the last two years, with fraud offences rising by 25% to 4.5 million compared with the year ending March 2020.
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