The money will come from the UK IPO and will fund the Unit from 2015 until 2017.
The Unit was set up with £2.56 million in funding from the IPO in September 2013. This covered the first two years of operation.
PIPCU comprises: 21 detectives, police staff investigators, analysts, researchers, an education officer and a communications officer. There are two secondees from the UK IPO and the BPI.
Since launching, PIPCU claims to have investigated more than £29 million ($47 million) worth of IP crime and suspended 2,359 domain names. It says it has seized more than £1.29 million-worth of suspected fake goods and diverted more than 5 million visits away from copyright-infringing sites (see image right).
PIPCU has also set up Operation Creative and the Infringing Website List.
More information about PIPCU is in the IP Crime Group report 2013/2014.
