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UK: e-Crime Unit Funding Revealed

Tom Young writes on Computing:

The Serious Organised Crime Agency’s (SOCA’s) e-crime unit has less staff and half the budget of its forerunner, the National HiTech Crime Unit (NHTCU).

Computing has learned that the unit receives about £4.5m funding annually, less than half of the £9.3m spent on the NHTCU. And in January this year the agency had 51 e-crime staff ­ compared with 54 employed at its predecessor’s peak.

When the NHTCU was rolled into SOCA in April 2006 the fight against cyber crime was dealt a major blow, said shadow home secretary David Davis.

posted by Fergie @ 4/09/2008 01:07:00 PM