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Financial and cyber crimes top global police concerns, says new
INTERPOL report
INTERPOL’s inaugural Global Crime Trend report leverages data from the organization’s
country
membership to map out current and emerging threats worldwide.
NEW DELHI,
INDIA: Financial and cyber c
rimes
are the world’s leading crime threats and also those projected to
increase most in the future,
according to a major
ity of the police respondents globally.
The findings, part of INTERPOL’s first
ever Global Crime Trend rep
ort, saw
more than 60
per cent
of respondents
rank
crimes such as money laundering, ransomware
, phishing and online
scams as
high or very high threats
Moreover, more than 70
per cent
of respondents expect crimes such as ransomware and phishing attacks to
increase or sign
ificantly increase in the next three to five years
The report
, which is restricted to law enforcement,
brings together data
received
from INTERPOL’s 195 member
untries alongside information
and detailed analysis
from
the organization’s
data holdings
and other sources.
Showing how crime areas converge in complex and
mutually reinforcing
ways, the report
notes that
understanding this complexity is
crucial to inform collective decision
making by police worldwide
“Understanding and pre
ting crime trends is an absolute bedrock
policing
, and
INTERPOL’s Global Crime
Trend report
offers
an unparalleled pictur
e of the global crime landscape
as seen by police officers around the
world
,” said Jürgen Stock, Secretary General of INTERPOL.
enforcement agencies across the globe,” the Secretary General added.
he report
was presented
place this week (18
October) in New Delhi.
Financial crime
service
Financial crimes and cybercrime are invariably linked, as
significant amount of
financial fraud takes place
through digital technologies (making it ‘cyber
enabled’) and cybercri
minals also depend on financial fraud to
launder their illicit gains. In this way, while ‘cybercrime
service’ is a well
known criminal concept, the
pandemic has also hastened the emergence of ‘financial crime
service’, including digital money lau
ndering
tools that can prove critical for criminals seeking to cash out.
Respondents ranked money laundering as the number one crime threat in the INTERPOL report, with 67 per cent
ranking it ‘high’ or ‘very high’ in their list. Ransomware was the second h
ighest
ranking threat, at 66 per cent, and
the crime threat expected to increase the most (72 per cent).
Most disturbing is perhaps the related rise in online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA), which 62 per
cent of respondents expect to increase
or significantly increase
the third highest
ranking future crime threat.
The demand for
and production of
OCSEA materials also increased significantly during the pandemic.
While drug trafficking has traditionally dominated crime threat lists, cyber
bled financial crime has increased
precipitously in recent years
, notably throughout the global COVID
19 pandemic. During and following lockdowns,
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rates of digitalization accelerated
with professional and personal activities performed almost exclusively f
home and online.
Crime has also moved online, and cyber
enabled
financial