City of London Police
The Economic Crime Academy
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The Academy is active in developing and delivering counter fraud training across all sectors, both nationally and internationally. It supports counter fraud projects across the globe, including, more recently, in Europe, Africa and Asia.
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he City of London Police Economic Crime Academy was established to be
a national learning hub for the development of economic crime learning programmes in response to the growing threat, harm and loss caused by the range of economic crime impacting organisations and individuals, both nationally and internationally.
It is uniquely placed to harvest operational learning from the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau and the operational teams, which ensures the training material is current and related to the latest fraud typologies.
In response to the growing threat of fraud a new Fraud Investigation Model was developed by the members of the ECA which is currently being imbedded across policing. The model gives a logical framework to counter fraud. It is at the heart of mainstreaming fraud investigation across the police service. For too long the investigation of fraud was seen as purely a specialised area undertaken by specialist teams; though they are still required for the more complex investigations, fraud is now the volume and priority crime of the 21st century, often cyber enabled. This type of crime now represents over half of all crime reported.
The Fraud Investigation Model not only focuses on pursuing those perpetrating fraud but brings to the forefront prevention and disruption tactics to remove the key enablers in economic crime.
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One of the most exciting programmes is a core investigative skills training programme accredited through the leading counter fraud accrediting body, the Counter Fraud Professional Accreditations Board. The programme has been developed in collaboration with a leading financial institution and is focussed on core investigative skills which the organisation was missing from their existing compliance and anti-money laundering programmes. The Academy has trained the bank’s delegates from all over the globe in this innovative programme, which has contributed to enhancing the organisation’s capacity and capability to combat economic crime. The delegates are now recognised as accredited counter bribery and fraud specialists.
The curriculum covers a wide range of topics, including developing a counter fraud culture, investigative techniques for the 21st century, investigative interviewing and cyber investigation. This programme is available to all organisations and can add significant value and ability to enhancing the response to economic crime, both nationally and internationally.
For more information on courses visit
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Spotlight on Security Officer Phillippe Rutale
In each issue we will focus on how Project Griffin is impacting on
the security world. This time we profile Philippe Rutale from Emprise, who is part of the security team at an iconic site in the City of London. Philippe received his Project Griffin training with the City of London Police in 2015 and has used the skills he gained to
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share best practice for the environment in which he works, as well as at many high profile events. Since his training, Philippe has commented that the experience of attending Project Griffin has improved his reporting and decision making skills.
Philippe says, “As a security officer, the Project Griffin training gave me more confidence with regards to coming up with solutions which deal with the current terrorist and crime issues on my specific site. It is very pleasing to have that link with the Project Griffin team and members of the police service that communicate and update key information relating to security and crime prevention. I will highly recommend anyone in the security industry to attend the training to seek best-practice solutions to defeat suspicious activities.”
CSSC – success in numbers T
he CSSC initiative has been in place for more than five years. The statistics below are a measure of its success:
• Nearly 9 million people can now be reached on the CSSC London cascade.
• A total of 170 CSSC messages were sent or bridge calls held between 1st November 2014 and 26th October 2016.
• The six eastern county Police Services in the Eastern Regional Intelligence Unit send their bulletins for distribution through CSSC.
• The CSSC hub team took an active role in the multi emergency service exercise.
• Unified Response in 2016. Industry Sector Leaders were chosen to represent each of the 33 industry sectors with a further five representing the BIDs and five representing the Business Representative Organisations.
• 27 organisations across 30 tables with 300 individuals attended the 2016 charity dinner, combined with JSAFE, in October. Nearly £20,000 was raised for charity.
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