Same again

Timon Molloy, Editor (timon.molloy@informa.com)

This time it will be different… Well, it ought to be: the latest Crime Survey for England and Wales [1] shows fraud vying with theft for the most commonly experienced crime title; if computer misuse is added, it is indisputably number one. After years, decades of dodging the issue – not forgetting the National Fraud Authority (NFA), set up in October 2008, shuttered in March 2014 and its Annual Fraud Indicator (estimated losses: UK£73 billion in 2012 [2]) dropped – HM Government can no longer duck its responsibilities, or, rather, it senses it needs to be seen to be doing something.