A senior police officer has warned that his force does not have the ‘capacity’ to protect people from online fraud amidst an ever escalating threat from cyber criminals and hackers.
City of London police commissioner Adrian Leppard has urged individuals to take greater responsibility for their own online security after conceding that ‘clearly there isn’t a capacity to deal with all fraud’. He also said that current investigative resources were ‘a drop in the ocean compared to the scale of the problem we are facing.’
The admission came as Leppard called for a national advertising campaign to ram home the message that people need to protect themselves online, similar to 1980s campaigns against drink driving.
