Report Summary
This report provides members of the Policing Performance Committee with an overview of the Policing in a Digital World Programme.
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Meeting
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Policing Performance Committee - 15 June 2023
Date : 15 June 2023
Location : online
Current Threat Picture/Drivers for Change
Cybercrime is an area of increasing risk and Police Scotland must ensure that our policing model can respond effectively.
The following figures provide the scale of the problem and the threat, risk and harm this poses to the communities across Scotland:
511% increase of Online Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (OCSAE) referrals from 2015-2021.
650% increase of referrals regarding child sexual abuse imagery over a 9 year period.
2% increase of fraud over last 5 years.
17% decrease in fraud detection rate.
95% of fraud now online and synonymous with cybercrime.
In 2022/23, 16,879 crimes of fraud were reported in Scotland, which equates to an average of 46 cases per day.
It is also recognised that this crime remains hugely under-reported.
Around 40% of businesses across the UK are victims of cybercrime, some of whom will not have reported it.
