Police officers and police staff employed dedicated to investigating fraud and other economic crime

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.22.023587

I note you seek access to the following information:

Could confirm how many police officers and police staff you have employed dedicated to investigating fraud and other economic crime please? e.g. in a Fraud Squad and Financial Investigation Unit?

Please provide an annual breakdown going back to 2012.

How many officers do you have in total

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full.

Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

Please see the below data.

SCO9 - Specialist & Economic Crime	2012	533.6
SCO9 - Specialist & Economic Crime	2013	519.2
SCO9 - Specialist & Economic Crime	2014	474.2
Falcon	2015	238.8
Dedicated Card & Payment Crime Unit, Fraud Squad, Volume Crime	2016	150
The same teams as above	2017	125.9
The same teams as above	2018	114.7
CSC Economic crime team	2019	243.7
CSC Economic crime team	2020	235
CSC Economic crime team	2021	246
CSC Economic crime team	2022	275

Please note that between 2015 - 2018 there was a restructure so there may be other units involved in the investigation of fraud and economic crime that are not captured in the located data

For the total number of officers this can be found on the Stats and Data - Workforce Data Report