As Policing’s National Protect Coordinator for Fraud, Economic and Cyber Crime I fully support the UK Safer Internet Day. Fraud is now about 40% of all crime so the 11th February is where we can all come together to raise the awareness of scams and how they can be prevented. The internet is helpful in so many ways, but also a place where criminals can target people, especially the young, with convincing shopping or investment scams and more. With the advent of AI making scams even more realistic and harder to detect, we need to work together to prevent them reaching their audience. This won’t stop everything, so it is really important that we raise people’s awareness on how to recognise a scam and protect themselves.