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21 May 18
The UK must step up efforts to crack down on money laundering as Russian corruption is putting national security at risk, a group of MPs has warned.
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21 May 18
A £1m funding boost to prevent knife crime will be available to charities in England and Wales, the Home Office has announced.
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16 May 18
Public sector bodies should protect themselves against the potential of highly costly fraud attacks, says ‘white collar’ crime solicitor Rahman Ravelli.
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12 Apr 18
An independent council-led inquiry into child sex abuse in Telford will begin, despite calls on central government to lead a probe.
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11 Apr 18
The government has pledged to crack down on cybercrime and the ‘dark web’ with a £9m funding boost.
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9 Apr 18
Home secretary Amber Rudd has launched a £40m serious violence strategy following the recent spate of knife and gun crime that has affected London particularly.
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25 Jan 18
The Police Federation and the government are locked in a dispute about whether latest crime statistics show a decrease in crime or not.
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27 Nov 17
The pioneering London Counter Fraud Hub has uncovered far more cases of potential fraud than anticipated, early results show.
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23 Nov 17
CIPFA’s local authority fraud tracker shows that councils are concentrating on higher value fraud, and housing tops the list.
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2 Oct 17
Councillors have called for the entire cabinet of a council facing police probes over manipulation of data and allocation of public funds to resign.
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25 Sep 17
Cybercrime has affected 76% of local councils in the last year, according to figures from the IT security firm Malwarebytes.
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22 Sep 17
Public sector organisations from HM Revenue & Customs to Leeds City Council picked up accolades at last night’s Government Counter Fraud Awards.
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19 Sep 17
Liverpool Council has suspended its chief executive, who is currently on bail in connection with a fraud probe, to allow it to carry out its own independent investigation into him.
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3 Aug 17
The UK government has outlined strengthened laws allowing it shut down terrorist finances and place sanctions on rogue regimes after Brexit.
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1 Aug 17
Campaign group Transparency International has urged the UK authorities to seize any property in the country owned by Pakistan’s disgraced ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
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4 Nov 16
New laws currently under consideration in the UK could eliminate the country's role in global corruption as a hotbed of ill-gotten cash and assets, experts have told PF International.
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5 Jul 16
The government has failed “in spectacular fashion” to implement changes to the way it confiscates the proceeds of crime, according to the Public Accounts Committee.
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2 Mar 16
Money laundering often presents itself as pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. It’s only when the whole jigsaw is assembled that the picture becomes obvious
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20 Oct 15
Online criminals are becoming ever more sophisticated, and are targeting public sector organisations, with fraud and identity theft in mind
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23 Jun 15
Lord Laming is to chair an independent review considering why looked-after children are over-represented in the criminal justice system in England and Wales.
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16 Jun 15
There have always been fraudsters who targeted the public sector at every level. Today, digitisation of public services is increasing the opportunities for criminals. And counter fraud experts...
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1 May 15
The first cohort of trainees has completed CIPFA’s Counter Fraud Specialist qualification.
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10 Apr 15
Gangs have moved online and globalised to commit the biggest ever bank robbery. So how can the public sector defend its networks from the ‘spear phishers’ of 21st century Crime Inc?
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30 Sep 13
The Ministry of Justice’s approach to outsourcing probation contracts will be a test of the government’s commitment to voluntary, social, mutual and co-operative organisations. Many fear...
21 May 18The UK must step up efforts to crack down on money laundering as Russian corruption is putting national security at risk, a group of MPs has warned.
21 May 18A £1m funding boost to prevent knife crime will be available to charities in England and Wales, the Home Office has announced.
16 May 18Public sector bodies should protect themselves against the potential of highly costly fraud attacks, says ‘white collar’ crime solicitor Rahman Ravelli.
12 Apr 18An independent council-led inquiry into child sex abuse in Telford will begin, despite calls on central government to lead a probe.
11 Apr 18The government has pledged to crack down on cybercrime and the ‘dark web’ with a £9m funding boost.
9 Apr 18Home secretary Amber Rudd has launched a £40m serious violence strategy following the recent spate of knife and gun crime that has affected London particularly.
25 Jan 18The Police Federation and the government are locked in a dispute about whether latest crime statistics show a decrease in crime or not.
27 Nov 17The pioneering London Counter Fraud Hub has uncovered far more cases of potential fraud than anticipated, early results show.
2 Oct 17Councillors have called for the entire cabinet of a council facing police probes over manipulation of data and allocation of public funds to resign.
22 Sep 17Public sector organisations from HM Revenue & Customs to Leeds City Council picked up accolades at last night’s Government Counter Fraud Awards.
19 Sep 17Liverpool Council has suspended its chief executive, who is currently on bail in connection with a fraud probe, to allow it to carry out its own independent investigation into him.
3 Aug 17The UK government has outlined strengthened laws allowing it shut down terrorist finances and place sanctions on rogue regimes after Brexit.
1 Aug 17Campaign group Transparency International has urged the UK authorities to seize any property in the country owned by Pakistan’s disgraced ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
4 Nov 16New laws currently under consideration in the UK could eliminate the country's role in global corruption as a hotbed of ill-gotten cash and assets, experts have told PF International.
5 Jul 16The government has failed “in spectacular fashion” to implement changes to the way it confiscates the proceeds of crime, according to the Public Accounts Committee.
2 Mar 16Money laundering often presents itself as pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. It’s only when the whole jigsaw is assembled that the picture becomes obvious
20 Oct 15Online criminals are becoming ever more sophisticated, and are targeting public sector organisations, with fraud and identity theft in mind
23 Jun 15Lord Laming is to chair an independent review considering why looked-after children are over-represented in the criminal justice system in England and Wales.
16 Jun 15There have always been fraudsters who targeted the public sector at every level. Today, digitisation of public services is increasing the opportunities for criminals. And counter fraud experts...
1 May 15The first cohort of trainees has completed CIPFA’s Counter Fraud Specialist qualification.
10 Apr 15Gangs have moved online and globalised to commit the biggest ever bank robbery. So how can the public sector defend its networks from the ‘spear phishers’ of 21st century Crime Inc?
30 Sep 13The Ministry of Justice’s approach to outsourcing probation contracts will be a test of the government’s commitment to voluntary, social, mutual and co-operative organisations. Many fear...
