Haggis
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I see a couple every day on other platforms but mostly from the US. I don't post them here because this is Army.
Police Folk Allegedly Behaving Badly
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Exactly......the day a LEO doing a bad thing isn't newsworthy is the day you start worrying.
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daftandbarmy
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But just in the UK, right? Right? 
Police 100 Times More Likely Than Average Person to Be Convicted of Cybercrime
‘They just don't believe they’re going to get caught.’
Police officers and police staff are 100 times more likely to be found guilty of a cybercrime than the average person, Novara Media can reveal.
In 2024, officers and staff who had misused police databases made up 42% of all cybercrime convictions, despite being only 0.4% of the UK population.
A spate of police offences were prosecuted in the first half of the year; between January and June, police officers and staff made up an astounding 53% of all cybercrime convictions.
This is according to an analysis by Novara Media of the Cambridge Computer Crime Database (CCCD), which has been tracking cybercrimes where the offender or alleged offender has been arrested, charged and/or prosecuted in the UK since January 2010.
Most police cases involve officers and staff illegally obtaining sensitive information stored on official computer systems.
Entries into the CCCD, detailed by Cambridge Cybercrime Centre director Alice Hutchings, include a corrupt police intelligence analyst who tipped off a drug dealer that an encrypted messaging network used by criminals had been infiltrated by law enforcement, disrupting countless active international police investigations.
In another case, the girlfriend of a gang member got a job with the police and started a relationship with a colleague, who she then enlisted to help steal data that identified witnesses who had testified against her imprisoned partner.
novaramedia.com
Police 100 Times More Likely Than Average Person to Be Convicted of Cybercrime
‘They just don't believe they’re going to get caught.’
Police officers and police staff are 100 times more likely to be found guilty of a cybercrime than the average person, Novara Media can reveal.
In 2024, officers and staff who had misused police databases made up 42% of all cybercrime convictions, despite being only 0.4% of the UK population.
A spate of police offences were prosecuted in the first half of the year; between January and June, police officers and staff made up an astounding 53% of all cybercrime convictions.
This is according to an analysis by Novara Media of the Cambridge Computer Crime Database (CCCD), which has been tracking cybercrimes where the offender or alleged offender has been arrested, charged and/or prosecuted in the UK since January 2010.
Most police cases involve officers and staff illegally obtaining sensitive information stored on official computer systems.
Entries into the CCCD, detailed by Cambridge Cybercrime Centre director Alice Hutchings, include a corrupt police intelligence analyst who tipped off a drug dealer that an encrypted messaging network used by criminals had been infiltrated by law enforcement, disrupting countless active international police investigations.
In another case, the girlfriend of a gang member got a job with the police and started a relationship with a colleague, who she then enlisted to help steal data that identified witnesses who had testified against her imprisoned partner.
Police 100 Times More Likely Than Average Person to Be Convicted of Cybercrime
Exclusive: 42% of all cybercriminals convicted in 2024 were police officers or police staff, Novara Media can reveal.
novaramedia.com
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Or perhaps government data systems have better access control logs, making it easier to prosecute misconduct.
Yup. The comparison in the original article is absurd. A cop abusing their CPIC access and someone launching ransomware attacks through a botnet or a zero-day exploit are two very different things. The vast majority of cyber crime is not investigated or solved; there aren’t resources to do it with. But a cop or other government official who misuses databases is easily traced in their access and use of various systems. I’ve got personal experience in this sort of investigation a few times over… There’s often pretty comprehensive user access logging.
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