FOI 0077-2024/25- Fraud staff

Request:

Covering 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023, I would like to obtain:

Q1. How many members of staff are dedicated to investigating fraud? Please breakdown by type of staff (for example police officers, police staff, police specials)

Q2. Where relevant, of these how many have received dedicated fraud training?

Q3. How many fraud cases did you take to the CPS for prosecution?

Response:

Extent and Result of Searches to Locate Information

To locate the information relevant to your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by North Yorkshire Police.

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you.

North Yorkshire Police Economic Crime Unit have provided the below information.

Q1.  We have 6 police officers dedicated to investigating fraud, we have two police staff fraud assessors who deal with the disseminations of fraud reports from Action Fraud – they are supported by a team of Financial Investigators but none of these are dedicated to purely fraud investigations.

Q2. All 6 officers are Specialist Fraud Investigators and have recieved dedicated fraud training.

Q3. We are unable to provide a response to this part of your request as this would trigger an excess cost exemption.

However we can provide judicial outcomes - Between 01/01/2023 and 31/12/2023 there were 69 positive outcomes to fraud investigations.  

Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data.  It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.