Crime reduction 

Safe web surfing

Please consider our crime prevention advice in this section to make sure that you surf the web safely.

Internet crime (or ‘e-crime’, ‘cyber crime’, ‘hi-tech crime’) covers different crimes that take place or are arranged online, such as:

  • Internet fraud.
  • Junk email (‘spam’) and email scams.
  • Viruses.
  • Hacking.
  • Pornographic and indecent images.
  • Paedophilia.

Further information

Useful information