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

Additional software

You may need to download Adobe Reader (opens new window) to view files in PDF format.

You may need to download Microsoft viewer software (opens new window) to view Word, Excel or Powerpoint files.