A fraud team the government promoted as a leading authority on tackling Covid loan misuse and boasted of making multiple arrests was in truth run out of the offices of Thurrock council and had no right to claim it had policing powers. asked why they were using police IT infrastructure and presenting themself as a police body, it said it would be asking council to explain itself.
#covid #abuse https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/council-posed-as-police-during-covid-fraud-crackdown-qbwfhxh62
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