Today's PassW0rd examines why the UK public has lost confidence with the police's ability to deal with cyber crime and what is being done about it.

Broadcast on 104.fm in London, on digital and online on www.resonancefm.com at 3.30pm today and repeated on Monday at 10.00am.

In today's show author Monica Horten claims that the relationship that exists between technology companies and Governments goes a lot deeper than that exposed by Edward Snowden. 

Why there is a behind the scenes push by the Home Office and the police to try to create more effective cyber policing, and the new trend of cyber stalking and why we should be concerned about it. 

Finally Hex, a system that lets you store memories and information on statues, park benches, music venues in fact anywhere. 

In a new book called 'The Closing of the Net' Monica Horten states that the big technology companies are manipulating governments and policy makers, blocking and filtering content and retaining and storing personal information at the cost of individual access and privacy. 

PassW0rd interviewed Monica about her concerns.

We also engage in another important debate, the structural problems in the way UK police forces are constituted that are preventing them from dealing with the fastest growing crime wave in the world, cyber crime.

According to research published in February by accountants PwC 60% of the UK have no confidence in the police's ability to deal with cyber crimes. The report published the following statistics.

• Over half of UK organisations have been the victim of economic crime in the past 24 months, outstripping global rates  
• Shift towards the so-called ‘silver fraudster’ with 18% of fraud committed by senior management
• Cybercrime incidents in the UK up 20 percentage points since 2014
• 30% of UK organisations say they have no cyber response plan while almost 60% have no confidence in UK law authorities dealing with cybercrime

The UK has seen a double-digit rise in economic crime against corporates in the last two years, with 55% of organisations affected, an increase of 11 percentage points since 2014, significantly outstripping the level in countries such as the US (38%) and China (28%).

So PassW0rd has examined the problems facing the police and the methods that they hope will allow them to bring cyber crime awareness to frontline policing.