e-crime
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of e-crime
C20: e- ² + crime
Example Sentences
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Regional resources include major investigation teams, e-crime, serious and organised crime, armed policing, dogs, and trunk roads policing.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2014
Cumbria Chief Constable Mr Hyde, who speaks on e-crime for the Association of Chief Police Officers, said police should get involved if people's lives were being made a misery.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2012
Stuart Hyde, the chief constable of Cumbria Constabulary and lead on e-crime for the Association of Chief Police Officers, said there police conducted inquiries into messages on Facebook on 14,000 occasions last year.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2012
By the end of Friday, detectives from the FBI’s e-crime division had read the article and contacted Barr asking if he wouldn’t mind sharing his information.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2012
As media attention mounted, Ryan Cleary, an Essex-based 19-year-old suspected of affiliation to LulzSec, was arrested in a joint UK-US "e-crime" investigation.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2011
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