The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has celebrated its first year anniversary.
Baroness Neville-Rolfe, intellectual property minister, and intellectual property advisor Mike Weatherley visited the unit to hear of its achievements over the last 12 months.
Successes include diverting more than 2.5million visits from copyright infringing sites since April 2014.
Danny Medlycott, head of PIPCU, said: ‘We were delighted to welcome the new IP minister and Mike Weatherley to our headquarters this week to mark the end of our first year in operation.
‘Over the past twelve months PIPCU has gone from strength to strength, successfully targeting, disrupting and dismantling suspected organised crime gangs and lone operators, who we believe have been making hundreds of thousands of pounds and costing UK industries millions. At the same time we have also developed relationships with international and national law enforcement partners including agencies in the U.S and China, to share best practice and intelligence.’
The City of London Police unit is currently funded until June 2015 by the Intellectual Property Office.
Check out our video of Mike discussing the challenges facing the music industry at this year's Great Escape.
Baroness Neville-Rolfe, intellectual property minister, and intellectual property advisor Mike Weatherley visited the unit to hear of its achievements over the last 12 months.
Successes include diverting more than 2.5million visits from copyright infringing sites since April 2014.
Danny Medlycott, head of PIPCU, said: ‘We were delighted to welcome the new IP minister and Mike Weatherley to our headquarters this week to mark the end of our first year in operation.
‘Over the past twelve months PIPCU has gone from strength to strength, successfully targeting, disrupting and dismantling suspected organised crime gangs and lone operators, who we believe have been making hundreds of thousands of pounds and costing UK industries millions. At the same time we have also developed relationships with international and national law enforcement partners including agencies in the U.S and China, to share best practice and intelligence.’
The City of London Police unit is currently funded until June 2015 by the Intellectual Property Office.
Check out our video of Mike discussing the challenges facing the music industry at this year's Great Escape.
