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Security industry reacts to UK police cyber-crime budget revelations

As UK police forces are revealed to have spent just £1.3 million on cyber-crime training in the last three years, security industry response is damning.

"As UK police forces are revealed to have spent just £1.3m on cybercrime training in the last three years, security industry response is damning.

A freedom of information request enabled Parliament Street to determine that cyber-crime training expenditure by UK police forces is shamefully low. How low might that be? Well the 'Policing and Cybercrime' report revealed that in terms of cyber-crime training budgets the total spend across all forces that responded, including the British Transport Police and Ministry of Defence Police Service, was just £1,320,341 spread across the last three years..."