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Economic Crime and Fraud Training Academy

Welcome

The Academy has been established to provide a centre of excellence for training in the prevention, detection and investigation of fraud and economic crime.

The force is the national lead force for fraud investigation and is recognised world-wide for providing the highest quality of training. Our professional trainers are highly-skilled and hand-picked from the very best available from within the force and our partner agencies.

If you can’t see exactly what you’re looking for within the pages of the prospectus, then please talk to one of our training team. The team has considerable experience in developing and delivering bespoke training which has been delivered all over the world. Alternatively, if you’d like to know more about the Academy or to speak to one of our team, then please contact us on +44 (0) 207601 6978, email academy@cityoflondon.police.uk.

We look forward to hearing from you and to welcoming you to one of our courses in the coming year.

About the Economic Crime & Fraud Training Academy

Following the Attorney General’s Fraud Review of 2006, the City of London Police were asked to develop a training academy which would become a centre of excellence for training in the prevention, detection and investigation of fraud and economic crime.

Through sharing our knowledge and experience and acting as a global leader in sharing economic crime and fraud prevention internationally, we aim to make the UK and the international markets in which we operate a safer place and a more difficult environment for fraudsters to function.

Key members of the team

Head of Training and Educational Services

Steve Strickland

As well as being the Head of Training and Educational Services for the Economic Crime & Fraud Training Academy, Detective Chief Inspector Strickland has a portfolio which includes development of fraud investigative doctrine, dissemination of best practice and the co-ordination of fraud prevention and awareness campaigns for public and private sector partners as part of the City of London Police Economic Crime Directorate.

He brings some 16 years experience to the role, having started his policing career in 1996. During his varied career which has included uniform, intelligence and volume crime work, he has also headed up a Police Fraud Engagement Team providing advice, guidance and consultancy to UK police forces and counter-fraud specialists. In 2009 he headed up the team responsible for designing and delivering the National Fraud Intelligence Bureaus technical solution ‘Know Fraud’, probably the most powerful intelligence system in the world used to counter fraud activity.

He qualified as a police trainer and in 2000 was seconded to National Police Training (now the National Policing Improvement Agency) where he worked as a law trainer and specialist and tactical skills trainer.