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• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Len Duvall AM: Thank you very much, Chair. My question is to the Commissioner and it is about screening out crime. I have been raising a number of questions over many years about when the MPS first introduced screening out crime, and I recognise there have been some changes along the path of where it has got to at the moment. I also recognise it is a valuable tool. Do not put me in the view that you should not be doing it or anything like that, but is the MPS using it properly and appropriately, and are we screening...

• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Neil Garratt AM: I would like to reprise a question about fraud that I asked you at the Police and Crime Committee, I think on 2 October 2022. I was quite pleased with your answer about working with the National Crime Agency (NCA) and taking a new approach, Commissioner, and obviously since then, we have seen the big iSpoof shutdown operation. First of all, I wanted to commend you on that operation, which obviously was quite a major piece of work. Have you seen a reduction in that sort of phone-based fraud as a result of that operation?