Issue - decisions

City of York Council host the regional scambuster team and national eCrime investigations team on behalf of the National Trading Standards Board (NTSB). Current funding arrangements are to come to an end on 31st March 2015. Previous officer decisions have been that staffing arrangements for delivering these projects will end on this date.

NTSB have confirmed a ‘core funding’ grant to CYC for £531K to continue hosting the Scambuster Team and eCrime Investigations Team in 2015/16. Additional grant funding will be made available for specific investigations (e.g. £220K for OP Cleo2/Dougal).

The temporary posts required are:

1 FTE head of regional investigations, up to 3 FTE senior investigators, up to 9 FTE investigators, 1FTE disclosure officer, up to 2 FTE investigations assistant and 1 FTE admin assistant.