Protecting people online

Our Work  —  Protecting people from violence and abuse, Protecting people online, Victims and resolutions

HMICFRS inspects the child protection work of every police force in England and Wales.

Our Work  —  Behind the frontline, Protecting people from violence and abuse, Protecting people online

Digital crimes are those which can be increased in scale by the use of computers, computer networks and the internet. This includes cyber-enabled fraud and data theft.

Our Work  —  Large-scale policing, Protecting people online, Victims and resolutions

Fraud is a unique type of crime. There is more of it than there is of other crimes, it is often complex and it has no respect for jurisdictional boundaries. In 2018, HMICFRS inspected the effectiveness of the police response to fraud, including online fraud.

Our Work  —  Large-scale policing, Protecting people online

The Strategic Policing Requirement requires that police forces are capable of dealing with terrorism, civil emergencies, organised crime, threats to public order, and large-scale cyber incidents. We inspected how prepared the police are for all of these national threats.