The Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) has appointed Richard Frater as an intelligence officer.

Frater will work alongside Stephen Dalton, the IFB's head of intelligence, to strengthen the IFB intelligence model.

Frater recently completed 30 years in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), the majority of which in the Traffic Command Unit (TCU).

Chris Wright has also joined in the newly created role of operations controller, reporting to Ben Fletcher, head of operations, where he will be responsible for management of IFB fraud operations.

Wright served for 30 years as a Police Officer in a variety of roles, the last 18 years as a detective.

Glen Marr, IFB director, said: “Richard and Chris bring valuable knowledge, experience and expertise to the team, forming important parts of a new IFB operational structure, which has been segmented into five pillars: operations, analytics, intelligence, customer management and media/communications.

“The IFB has and this continues, been focused on strengthening and enhancing its core capability to disrupt organised insurance fraud, and Richard and Chris form key parts of this journey."

Marr added that the IFB's recruitment activity to complete deployment of the new IFB operational structure is also currently "progressing well".

"We hope to be in a position to announce details of other new team members in the near future," he said.

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