Met Police chief admits cyber-crime difficulties
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan Howe admits that the UK police are still “skimming the surface” when it comes to tackling cyber-crime, a view that is shared by security experts.
In an interview hosted by Sky News earlier this week, and with questions coming in from children’s newspaper First News, Hogan Howe detailed how the police have recruited hundreds of extra officers to fight online crime such as child abuse images, despite the organisation facing continued budget cuts.
“I think we’re only skimming the surface,” he said of the Met Police’s efforts with cyber-crime so far. “A lot of it is about stealing money and scamming, sometimes it’s about stealing an idea from a business.”