Police have launched a new crackdown on courier fraud in Hatton Garden after victims were conned out of more than £21 million in the past financial year.
The City of London Police, the national lead force for fraud, is working with the Metropolitan Police Service to carry out targeted enforcement in the capital’s famous jewellery quarter. The move is part of a wider effort to disrupt criminals who trick vulnerable people into buying gold and jewellery under false pretences, only for the goods to be handed over to fraudsters posing as police or other trusted officials.
