Public health approach key to improving 'inadequate' response to fraud

The office of West Midlands PCC Simon Foster commissioned a group of professors at Cardiff University to investigate the possibility of implementing a public health approach to fraud.

West Midlands PCC Simon Foster believes there is a "clear need for an end to end overhaul of the way fraud is dealt with" across the criminal justice system which reflects the fact that it now makes up 40% of all crime in the...