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<p>The Home Office is committed to not placing unnecessary bureaucratic burdens on
the police and has scrapped all central targets. However, Chief Constables are under
a duty to comply with the Strategic Policing Requirement (SPR). The SPR provides a
framework for consistent, collective decision making by forces, but leaves the specifics
of how this should be achieved to Chief Constables.</p><p>The Strategic Policing Requirements
describes organised crime, including large scale cyber crime, as a national threat
that Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners are expected to plan and
prepare, together or in support of national arrangements, to address these threats.</p><p>The
National Police Chiefs’ Council has oversight of force contributions to the SPR. Police
and Crime Commissioners are required to hold Chief Constables to account for the delivery
of the SPR and to have regard to the SPR when producing their police and crime plans.
The Home Office also continue to support forces in building professional responsibility
through the College of Policing; and returning accountability to the public through
Police and Crime Commissioners.</p><p>The 2015 National Security Strategy confirmed
that cyber remains a top threat to the UK’s economic and national security. The UK’s
future security and prosperity depends on our ability to safeguard digital information,
data and networks at home and abroad. The cyber threats we face continue to grow in
scale and sophistication. This is why the National Cyber Security Strategy 2016-2021
is supported by £1.9billion of transformational investment.</p><p>Through the National
Cyber Security Programme, we invested over £90 million under the 2010-15 Parliament
to bolster the law enforcement response. The Government will continue to invest in
law enforcement capabilities at the national, regional and local levels to ensure
delivery agencies have the capacity to deal with the increasing volume and sophistication
of cyber crime. We are increasing the capabilities of the National Crime Agency’s
National Cyber Crime Unit by increasing their ability to investigate the most serious
cyber crime.</p>
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