CIFAS, the UK’s Fraud Prevention Service, has appointed the former director of the Assets Recovery Agency, Jane Earl, and Chris McKee, former technical services director of RBS Insurance, as independent directors on their board of directors.

Earl will fulfil this role alongside her non-executive roles for the Valuation Office Agency and the Planning Inspectorate. She is also deputy commissioner of the Boundary Committee for England and the Electoral Commission.

She was chief executive of Wokingham Unitary Council until February 2003 and spent four years as director of the Assets Recovery Agency, a central government department established to test new legislation aimed at confiscating the proceeds of crime. Since April 2007, she has been working as a consultant in the arts sector.

McKee left his role at RBS in December, being the last remaining member of the executive from the time of the merger of Direct Line and Churchill. He has been a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute since 1987. During his time at Direct Line, he set up the fraud department in the 1990s and Direct Line was the first UK insurer to use the CIFAS database to detect fraudulent proposals and claims.