WORKING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT

Cifas collaborates with police and law enforcement agencies: to assist them in the prevention of fraud and financial crime; to disrupt financial criminals and; to protect the public and the UK economy from the adverse effects of fraud and financial crime.
Cifas provides free operational intelligence to support police and law enforcement in the detection and apprehension of criminals.
HOW WE
COLLABORATE
WITH LAW
ENFORCEMENT

Supplying Cifas information
to the National Crime Agency
to support specific operations into
suspected money laundering, corrupt
professionals, and intelligence on
other types of financial or
financially-related crime.

Strategic
Intelligence

Statistical
Analysis

Fraud threats, trends and
enablers to inform national
strategic assessments of
crime across the UK.

Cifas reports, as passed to the City
of London Police National Fraud
Intelligence Bureau, contribute to
national crime statistics on fraud,
collated by the Office
of National Statistics.

Attendance at
Law Enforcement
Working Groups.

Cifas runs the Organised Fraud
Intelligence Group (OFIG) which
brings together members and
law enforcement.

14,686 Cifas reports

included in active police investigations.

per day to the City of London
Police to build into intelligence
packages that inform law
enforcement activity.

£5.4 million

saved due to Amberhill reports on false documents.

45% rise in National Fraud Intelligence Bureau Crime Packages containing Cifas data from 2,631 to 3,813
37% rise in Cifas reports disseminated as
part of those packages from 10,725 to 14,686
These rises are welcome and demonstrate the clear value of working in partnership across Cifas members and law enforcement.