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21 October 2005
Consumers will feel safer this week after a system aimed largely at preventing online identity fraud and computer hacking was launched.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has assigned 110 specially-trained lawyers to tackle internet security issues - also including child pornography.
This task force will advise courts and aim to ensure that defendants against cyber charges will not be able to pull the wool over a jury's eyes with technology-based "evidence".
The move is partially designed to give lawyers similar skills to the police when building a case against alleged fraudsters.
CPS policy director Philip Geering told a Hi-Tech Crime Strategy conference: "The police in hi-tech crime cases often involve CPS prosecutors from the preliminary investigation of the offence. CPS prosecutors can advise on evidential issues and the various avenues of the investigation,"
He said that these new, specialist hi-tech crime prosecutors "must lead the way" against online fraud.
Research from earlier in the week said that 13 per cent of Brits now splash out less over the web after an increasing number of fraud scares.
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