Who we work with
Fraud touches everyone and we work with organisations with an interest in reducing the fraud threat. This work must cross boundaries of commercial activity and break down barriers between the public and private sectors.
Our strategic role means co-operation and co-ordination are at the heart of our work.
These bodies represent a community of stakeholders that are in close contact with the National Fraud Authority (NFA), feeding intelligence and information into the centre of the government's counter-fraud strategy.
Representative organisations from the counter-fraud community and different sectors, with the NFA, have formed a number of task forces, forums and working groups, each focused on tackling particular fraud priority areas.
A Victims Working Group involving the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), various police forces, government departments, financial institutions and other partners, including Victim Support, has been focused on improving the support provided to victims of fraud.This has involved jointly commissioned research into victims' needs and a pilot of an enhanced Support for Victims programme which will be rolled out nationally, delivering a range of training to relevant Victim Support staff and supporter networks.
Financial institutions, professional bodies and industry associations are all participating with the NFA in developing measures to root out mortgage fraud. These organisations are willingly sharing information, including commercially sensitive data, in order to make a real impact on mortgage fraud. In March 2010, the NFA published a mortgage fraud progress report highlighting estimated savings of £130million in the mortgage industry over the previous year, a testament to the co-operation between these organisations.
The NFA is joining forces with government agencies, commercial operations and industry bodies to combat identity crime, a criminal act that allows a large amount of fraud to be committed and has links to other serious offences including terrorism and people trafficking.
Within the criminal justice system the NFA is working to assess the fraud prosecution landscape in a joint programme sponsored by the Ministry of Justice and Serious Organised Crime Agency. This will identify barriers that inhibit the flow of information between different counter-fraud organisations and ensure the criminal justice system is best prepared to deal with fraud trials.
We continue to work closely with the City of London Police, the national lead force on fraud, and the recently launched National Fraud Intelligence Bureau.
"We believe that the collaborative approach adopted to identify and tackle the issues that have arisen in this sector will enable us to combat mortgage fraud most effectively." Diane Telford, Director of Regulation Operations, Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
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