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NEWS: Fraud accounts for over 40% of English crime – but just 1% of police are investigating

Police in England (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

By Paul O’Donoghue, Senior Correspondent

The tiny resources assigned by UK law enforcement to tackling fraud have been called into question.

Patrick Jenkins, the deputy editor of the Financial Times, has highlighted how police largely ignore many types of financial crime, as individual scams typically involve relatively small amounts.

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