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Specialist Printing Equipment and Materials (Offences) Act 2015

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3.The Metropolitan Police Service’s Project Genesius works together with the specialist printing equipment industry to prevent the supply of such equipment to criminals for its use in the manufacture of false documents. Project Genesius has identified that the police find it difficult to prosecute those who knowingly supply this equipment to criminals, because of the absence of a targeted offence. This Act creates a specific criminal offence of knowingly supplying specialist printing equipment to criminals.

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