Europol COVID-19 police on pandemic and fighting crime threats

FanJ · Feb 15, 2021

Europol Press Release - 15 feb 2021
COVID-19 chiefs of police working group meets to talk pandemic and fighting crime threats
https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsr...s-to-talk-pandemic-and-fighting-crime-threats

As the pandemic has changed the landscape of crime, law enforcement has had to adapt their approaches to the accelerated shifts in criminal modi operandi and market focus.
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Some of the priority areas discussed:
the risks of criminals taking advantage of vaccination campaigns rolling out across the world to sell fake vaccines. Although still limited, some offers of fake vaccines have appeared on the dark web;
the online sexual exploitation of minors remains a great concern given the increase in the production and distribution online of child sexual abuse materials during the pandemic;
fraud schemes are likely to proliferate and intensify due to the economic hardship imposed by the pandemic.
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