FOI 862/24 Reports of Counterfeit money
Dear Sir/Madam,
Enquiry Reference: 862- 24
I write in connection with regards to your Freedom of Information request. Below is your request and our response.
Please supply the following information for each of the last three calendar years (1st January 2021 - 31st December 2021, 1st January 2022 - 31st December 2022 and 1st January 2023 - 31st December 2023):
Q1) How many reports did your force receive of counterfeit money being used to pay for goods/services?
Q2) In relation to Q1, how many arrests were made?
Answer
Have made enquiries with the Force analysts the below information is all that we hold.
A data search of the following crime type: 061/25 - Pass counterfeit coin or note as genuine was carried out to answer question one and two.
|
Volume of crime |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
|
061/25 - Pass counterfeit coin or note as genuine |
34 |
18 |
5 |
|
Person Arrested - Yes |
0 |
1 |
0 |
Crime code 61/25 applies for all shop type offences, there could be occasions where Action Fraud may be used - normally where private individuals are conned by someone buying items from them e.g. given a big bundle of money and only the top note or two are real and the rest are copies or blank.
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Yours sincerely
Information Rights Decision Maker