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email us at - cyberprotect@westmercia.police.uk

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Enhance your Cyber Security with our Cyber Protect Officers 

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Enhance your Cyber Security with our Cyber Protect Officers 

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Equip your staff with the knowledge and skills they need to defend themselves and your organisation against cyber criminals. West Mercia inputs are FREE.

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email us - cyberprotect@westmercia.police.uk

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Where you can get information relating to the Prevent Program

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The Neighbourhood Matters messaging system enables residents, businesses and community groups to keep in touch with local policing teams. You can receive updates on crimes, latest information on on-going incidents and learn more about what we're doing in your community.

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Welcome to Neighbourhood Matters

Find out what's really happening in your area and keep in touch with West Mercia Police through our free messaging service.

The Neighbourhood Matters messaging system enables residents, businesses and community groups to keep in touch with local policing teams. You can receive updates on crimes, latest information on on-going incidents and learn more about what we're doing in your community.

You're invited to sign up and become a registered recipient of messages of information, crime alerts or witness appeals local to the area in which you live or work by email, text or telephone.

Don't worry, we won't bombard you with every incident. You can choose exactly the type of alert you wish to receive.

We'd really like to hear from you so why not ask your family, friends and colleagues to register too? Let's get talking!

Please note that this service is not for reporting crimes or incidents - to make a report please contact West Mercia Police via the West Mercia Police website or dial 999 in an emergency.

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Find your local Safer Neighbourhood Team and be able to contact them directly by entering a street address or postcode below:

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Neighbourhood Matters is a free messaging service brought to you by West Mercia Police where you decide when and how you hear about the issues that matter most to you.

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Information on how to recognise and report emails, texts, websites, adverts or phone calls that you think are trying to scam you.

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Phishing: Spot and report scam emails, texts, websites and calls

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How to recognise and report emails, texts, websites, adverts or phone calls that you think are trying to scam you.

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The NCSC’s Board Toolkit helps boards to ensure that cyber resilience and risk management are embedded throughout an organisation, including its people, systems, processes and technologies.

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Resources designed to help board members govern cyber risk more effectively.

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Answer a few simple questions to get a FREE personalised action plan that lists what you as an organisation can do right now to protect against cyber attack.  (designed for those who are self employed or organisations up to 50 employees)

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Learn how to protect yourself or your small business online with the Cyber Aware Action Plan. Answer a few questions on topics like passwords and two-factor authentication, and get a free personalised list of actions that will help you improve your cyber security.

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The action plan includes links to specific guidance on how to implement any suggested improvements.

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Cyber Essentials Plus includes the self-assessment questionnaire but also a technical expert will conduct an audit on your IT systems. This will include a visit to your site and both internal and external tests of your network and computers.

If there were issues that you were not aware of when you answered the self-assessment questions, these would be picked up during the audit. Cyber Essentials Plus, therefore, gives more assurance that you are complying with the scheme.

As this assessment needs time from technical experts, it is more expensive than Cyber Essentials. The cost will depend on the size and complexity of your network.

IASME has a number of Certification Bodies who are trained and licensed to do the Cyber Essentials Plus audit for you. A quote for Cyber Essentials Plus can be applied for via the IASME website, you will be emailed quotes from two different Certification Bodies.

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Cyber Essentials Plus includes the self-assessment questionnaire but also a technical expert will conduct an audit on your IT systems. This will include a visit to your site and both internal and external tests of your network and computers.

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Contains resources and advice to help other charities #BeMoreDigital through inspiring content, access to the UK's only discounted and donated technology platform and connection to the best digital talent in the sector.

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Charity Digital (formerly Tech Trust) was established in 2001 to help other charities be more digital through educational content and the UK’s only discounted and donated software program.

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Guidance on how to improve cyber security within your charity

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Guidance on how to safeguard your charity from terrorism, fraud and other abuse.

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How to safeguard your charity from terrorism, fraud and other abuse.

Guidance, tools and other resources to help charity trustees put in place good standards of governance and accountability in place to safeguard their charities from terrorism, fraud and other forms of abuse.

This toolkit is designed to give you the knowledge and tools you need to manage risks and protect your charity from harm.

Chapter 1: Charities and Terrorism

Advice and information on key aspects of the UK's counter-terrorism legislation and how it may affect charities and their work.

Chapter 2: Charities: due diligence, monitoring and verifying the end use of charitable funds

Sets out trustees' legal responsibility to carry out due diligence checks on donors, beneficiaries and local partners and how to monitor end use of funds.

Chapter 3: Protect your charity from fraud and cyber crime

Helps trustees and other charity managers to be aware of the risks, to recognise some of the most common types of fraudulent activity and to devise ways to prevent fraud occurring.

Chapter 4: Charities: holding, moving and receiving funds safely

Practical advice for trustees on risk management factors and the need for appropriate financial controls and audit trails.

Chapter 5: Protecting charities from abuse for extremist purposes

Guidance on how charity trustees, staff and volunteers can protect their charities from abuse by anyone encouraging or condoning extremism, terrorism or illegal activity.

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Protecting charities from harm: compliance toolkit

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How to safeguard your charity from terrorism, fraud and other abuse.

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Information and Resources for Charities

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Charities: Don't just take steps to prevent fraud - be aware and prepare

Jamie De Souza, Partner, Trowers & Hamlins LLP and Emily Sharples, Associate, Trowers & Hamlins LLP During Charity Fraud Awareness Week 2022 (which took place between [...]

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Charities: Don't just take steps to prevent fraud - be aware and prepare Jamie De Souza, Partner, Trowers & Hamlins LLP and Emily Sharples, Associate, Trowers & Hamlins LLP During Charity Fraud Awareness Week 2022 (which took place between [...]

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One page document with advice on how charities can protect themselves from the most common cyber attacks

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Free Training Package for all staff within the Charity Sector created by NCSC

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HOW TO REPORT FRAUD AND CYBER INCIDENTS - When recording a crime with to Report Fraud, please include as much information as you are able to in the report.

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Guidance from the NCSC on how to improve the cyber security within your charity

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Information for Businesses

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This link will take you to our Parent/Guardian page where you will find lots of Resources and Advice for keeping your Children Safe Online

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NCSC Advice on cyber attacks on chairites

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NCSC Advice on cyber attacks on chairites

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Advice document from NCSC

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Advice to thwart ‘devastating’ cyber attacks on small charities

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The NCSC launches its first cyber security guidance for the charity sector.

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How to keep yourself safe online

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The Charity Commission requires charities to report serious incidents. If a serious incident takes place within your charity, it is important that there is prompt, full and frank disclosure to the Commission. You need to report what happened and, importantly, let the Commission know how you are dealing with it, even if you have also reported it to the police, donors or another regulator.

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We register and regulate charities in England and Wales, to ensure that the public can support charities with confidence.

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We register and regulate charities in England and Wales, to ensure that the public can support charities with confidence. Charity Commission is a non-ministerial department.

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This report is to help charities understand current cyber security threats, the extent to which the sector is affected

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Research document