Burglars aren’t the problem, we need to catch Russian cybercriminals
Just how defeatist are our police over online crime? The top fraud crime fighter in the country, City of London Police commissioner Ian Dyson, won't agree with that, but he certainly talks down the possibility of arrests and convictions. There's a bluntness to his assessment that won't, perhaps, go down too well with the Foreign Office. Crooks in Russia and Ukraine are behind much of it, he says, and law enforcement there won't cooperate with the British.
It's a common saying that you can't put a policeman on every street corner, and we certainly can't put one on Kreschatik Street or Old Arbat. But arguably our problem is that we tried to put too many bobbies on the beat, with the vogue for neighbourhood policing skewing resources to threats, such as home burglary and car theft, that have actually been in steep decline.
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