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The Metropolitan Police, in collaboration with the Regional Organised Crime Unit for the West Midlands region and the City of London Police, are launching a national awareness campaign to tackle romance fraud; a crime where victims are deceived into fake relationships and socially engineered to hand over money or personal information.
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Justice for victims after fraudster stole over £50k through postal courier fraud - with officers finding a video showing him counting the stolen money.
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Today (Wednesday 1 October), at Manchester Crown Court, a corrupt prison officer who formed an inappropriate relationship with an inmate at HMP Manchester has been jailed.
Two men have appeared in court charged with fraud offences alleged to have taken place involving SumUp card reader machines where victims were defrauded of thousands of pounds on their own doorsteps.
A Northumberland man has been charged following an alleged attempted theft from an ATM in Powburn – after using explosive tactics.
School and college students from across the region are being urged to put their cyber skills to the test and demonstrate their computer talents as a popular competition organised by cyber policing experts returns for another year.
Two members of an organised criminal network which sought to commit theft in the North East have been jailed.
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This morning (Thursday 18 September) a series of coordinated dawn raids across Merseyside and North Wales have led to the arrest of four men and two women as part of an ongoing investigation into the supply of Class A drugs, led by the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit (NWROCU).
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Two men from Liverpool have been sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court today (Friday 12 September) after pleading guilty to a series of drug offences, following an investigation by the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit.
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The leader of an organised crime group, alongside his partner, a prison officer and another person, have all been sentenced after a plot to smuggle drugs and phones into prison was foiled.