Press releases

Police forces across the country have been cracking down on criminals who commit courier fraud, with a combination of awareness raising and enforcement activity co-ordinated by the City of London Police.

A man has been sentenced after CCTV footage exposed his attempts to make two fraudulent ‘slip and trip’ claims at shops in Yorkshire.

A man has been sentenced after he falsely assumed ownership of several cars, insured them and then reported each as stolen, to try and get insurance pay-outs totalling £100,000. 

A husband and wife have been sentenced for making a fraudulent insurance claim following a car accident, and for attempting to inflate its value through a series of lies. 

A man has been sentenced after he impersonated his partner on the phone to try and fake his own death in Pakistan and make a false insurance claim worth a total of £999,999.

An assistant manager at a football club and two football agents have been sentenced for accepting and paying bribes to facilitate the transfer of players at Barnsley Football Club, following an investigation by the City of London Police’s Fraud Squad.

A company director has been sentenced after he doctored a ‘Form of Acceptance’, which he’d used previously, in an attempt to bypass his policy’s claim limit and falsely gain £405k from the insurer.

Officers from the City of London Police are asking for the public’s help on the whereabouts of David Dines, aged 52, who is wanted in relation to a series of burglaries within the City of London and surrounding areas.

A man was sentenced on Monday 13 January 2020 to an 8 month custodial sentence, following a hearing at Inner London Crown Court, after pleading guilty to manufacturing goods with unauthorised trademarks.

We have released CCTV footage of a number of people we would like to speak to in connection with an unprovoked assault on an innocent bystander outside a pub, earlier this year.