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Fraud will be given the same status as terrorism in a £30million drive to fight a crime making up 30 per cent of offences, it was reported yesterday.
The cash injection will be used to build a 'super brain' computer system using artificial intelligence to analyse all fraud and identify criminals behind it.
It will be added to the strategic policing requirement, meaning forces have to treat it as a priority alongside public disorder, organised crime, terrorism and child sexual abuse.
Plus there will be an overhaul of the much-criticised Action Fraud, the dedicated unit based at the City of London Police, The Sunday Telegraph reported.
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