Action Fraud: has the Home Office massaged the numbers?

Former detectives say thousands of identity fraud cases omitted to reduce recorded crime rates

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The Home Office is manipulating crime figures by ordering the national anti-fraud office to dismiss tens of thousands of legitimate cases, according to two former police chiefs.

Ken Farrow and Steve Wilmott told The Times that Action Fraud, the UK’s national fraud reporting centre, is failing to record cases of identity theft as crimes.

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