City of London Police force is to pilot a scheme hiring private law firms to pursue criminal suspects for profit. Katie Wheatley, joint head of criminal law at Bindmans, a London law firm, expressed unease over the proposals, which she said gave police “what they would regard as an easy deterrent, without having the inconvenience of proving an offence to a criminal standard”. The move comes after the Metropolitan police launched an investigation into alleged corruption in its own ranks. The police force believes it will be a more effective way of tackling fraud, which is now the biggest type of crime in the UK.
City of London Police force is to pilot a scheme hiring private law firms to pursue criminal suspects for profit. The move comes after the Metropolitan police launched an investigation into alleged corruption in its own ranks. The police force believes it will be a more effective way of tackling fraud, which is now the biggest type of crime in the UK.