We continue our series of podcasts focused on fraud. In this podcast we will be looking at fraud intensification. In 2022 the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) with assistance from the City of London Police, implemented a period of intensification of activity across law enforcement. There were a number of objectives of this intensification: to increase public confidence that law enforcement is committed to tackling fraud offending in the UK; to act as a deterrent through the promoting of successful initiatives to arrest or interview under caution suspects of fraud; to seize the proceeds of fraud and repatriate money to victims; and to increase confidence across government in law enforcements commitment to tackling fraud. To explain this work further, we hear from Oliver Little, the Deputy Head of Operations in the NECC on what is ‘intensification’ in this context and how does it apply to work aimed at combatting fraud. This is the second podcast of a special series of UKFIU podcasts focused on fraud. 00:00 Introduction 01:41 Explaining fraud intensification 02:55 How much victims lose annually as a result of this criminality 04:19 Who are the partners in this intensifications work and how exactly do you all work together 05:43 What the intensification of fraud activity actually entails and what was the outcome of this intensification period 07:49 How has the anti-fraud message been delivered to the general public 09:24 Intensification work planned for 2023 11:22 Conclusion

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