The UK's new coalition government has cut the budget for its Police Central eCrime Unit (PCeU) by 30 percent.

"The cut is effective this year and represents 14 per cent of the unit's total funding," writes The Register's Chris Williams.

"The coalition's decision to renege on the funding is a blow to Deputy Commissioner Janet Williams, who as well as leading the PCeU at Scotland Yard is in charge of national cybercrime policing strategy," Williams writes. "In March last year she complained that the unit's budget was 'not a lot of money' and said she aimed to persuade ministers to increase it this year."

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