British police and the UK government are woefully failing to prioritise fraud as a crime, leading to greater need for third parties to step in with efforts such as private prosecutions, suggests Shaun Reardon-John.
Paying lip service to the endemic problem of fraud should not be acceptable in the UK, says Senior Investigator Tony McClements.
When one police force in the UK filed away 96% of fraud complaints without looking at them, you know there’s a problem.
UK police forces continue to suffer under the severely adverse consequences of the British government’s fiscal “austerity” measures.
