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<p>Tacking cyber crime is at the heart of the Government’s National Cyber Strategy
2022-25, which is supported by £2.6 billion of investment through the National Cyber
Fund.</p><p>Key to delivery is ensuring that local policing has the resources needed
to deal with the cyber threats we face. In 2023/24, the Home Office is receiving £18
million from the National Cyber Fund to provide a range of capabilities and resource
to tackle and respond to cyber crime. This funding is supplemented by a further £16
million of Home Office funding through the Police Settlement Programme.</p><p>This
funding continues to build law enforcement capabilities at the national, regional,
and local levels to ensure they have the capacity and expertise to deal with the perpetrators
and victims of cyber crime. We directly fund a specialist Cyber Crime Unit at South
Wales Police, and more specialist teams at the TARIAN Regional Organised Crime Unit
(ROCU). This ROCU team is integral to our response to high-harm, high-impact crimes
like cyber extortion, and is a multi-disciplinary team of police officers and police
staff seconded from the three forces of South Wales, Gwent and Dyfed-Powys.</p><p>TARIAN
ROCU works closely with South Wales Police Cyber Crime Unit and work to intervene
if people are deemed at risk of becoming involved in cyber offending. This includes
working with young and vulnerable individuals offering other intervention and diversion
opportunities to young people outside of cyber education, such as life skills, and
job interview skills. South Wales Police Cyber Crime Unit engage with all local authorities
within the area to ensure effective delivery.</p><p>Businesses and organisations based
in Wales work closely with ROCUs across the private and public sectors, and at community
level. Additionally working collaboratively with the Welsh Government to support the
offer of funding to Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) for Cyber Essential
training, which is a government backed scheme that helps protect organisations against
a range of cyber attacks.</p><p>We have also rolled out Regional Cyber Resilience
Centres in Wales and in each of the other nine policing regions. The Centres are a
collaboration between the police, public, private sector and academic partners to
provide cyber security advice to SME’s so that they can protect themselves better
in a digital age. Details of the Cyber Resilience Centre for Wales can be found at
<a href="http://www.wcrcentre.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.wcrcentre.co.uk</a></p><p>All
vulnerable victims of fraud and cyber crime in Wales receive contact and PROTECT advice
from law enforcement, specifically aimed at helping them to protect themselves in
future from revictimization.</p>
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