April 1992
“The National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) is a United Kingdom policing agency set up as a separate body to centralize the gathering and distribution of intelligence on serious and organized criminal matters. The media have heralded the creation of NCIS as being similar to the FBI. NCIS will be formed out of the National Drugs Intelligence Unit in the Home Office. NCIS will concentrate on drugs, financial crime, immigration, firearms and organized crime.
April 1998
“The National Crime Squad (NCS) is to be a police organisation which will deal mainly with organised and major crimes. Formed from the amalgamation of six former Regional Crime Squads, the NCS will report directly to the Home Office and will have nationwide and international jurisdiction.
It will primarily deal with organised crime, major drug trafficking, illegal arms dealing, human trafficking, computer and high-tech crime, money counterfeiting and laundering, extortion, kidnapping and murder relating to any of the above. Lastly, it will augment and support regional forces throughout the United Kingdom.
The unit has been likened to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)”.
September 2005
“The Home Office is setting up the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) to tackle high level criminality in an “efficient and ruthless” manner. Due to be operational from 2006, the SOCA represents the biggest shake-up of our national policing structure since 1992.
Swiftly dubbed the British version of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) by the media, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) brings together the responsibilities once shared by the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) and the National Crime Squad (NCS), while also taking on organised crime investigations previously handled by the immigration service and Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise”.
July 2010
“Plans for a massive shake-up in policing in England and Wales are set to be outlined by the home secretary. A new national crime-fighting agency, likely to be dubbed Britain’s FBI, is among Theresa May’s proposals. The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) is expected to be scrapped just four years after it was set up by Labour. SOCA will be replaced by the National Crime Agency (NCA), which will include a new border police unit, the child exploitation and online protection centre (CEOP) and parts of the National Policing Improvement Agency.
* sigh *
Now, I'm not one to fucking well Labour a point but the Cleggeron Coalition certainly seem to be. Not to mention the little matter of £15 million quid of tax payers' cash for that shiny new logo, eh.
Just saying.
Info unashamedly nicked from Inspector Gadget, the man in the know ;-)
17 comments:
What's the betting it won't happen again now either?
Quite agree, Gotty:
Same old, same old....
Gildas the Monk *DONT_KNOW*
Bollox, again and again and ag....
Interesting. I thought there was less crime in (f)GB.
Just how many Federal Bureaus of Investigation do they need?
" SOCA...while also taking on organised crime investigations previously handled by the immigration service and Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise”." was because HMC&E seriously fucked up several major court cases, what's the excuse this time?
Another name, another logo, yet more power. Has ACPO been wound up yet? Thought not.
<span>"Just how many Federal Bureaus of Investigation do they need?" If we use the MPs' expenses scandals as a blueprint, around 400.</span>
All bets are off as far as I'm concerned.
Quite ;)
Ad nausium
It's just fucking laughable. I mean, can't any of those fuckers in goverment see what we can see or are they just being deliberately cuntish?
"<span>Another name, another logo" ..... another waste of fucking money!
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That's fucking right!
Come back Jack Regan & George Carter ..
Your country desperately NEEDS you ...
Now you're talking ....
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I think you're talking shit on this one GOT.
There were two parallel organisations created to deal with specific issues; then they were amalgamated mainly because Labour saw an opportunity to do more centralisation and politicisation of coercive power. The Condoms are responding to the budget issue and the well known inefficiencies of our police compared to foreign forces such as the NYPD and the RCMP.
Admittedly the names they give these things are shit.
This version sounds as oxymoronic as the Septic's DEA... the NCA sounds like a job agency for criminals [many a true word spoken in jest...].
The solution is to dump the concept, and return the intelligence to MI5 and have proper paramilitary Gendarme/Carabinieri/US Coast Guard type organisation to do the border police work: a HMCG/Gendarme/Border Police - one that can't be disbanded and rebranded so swiftly... we are fucking island nation unless anyone had forgotten! They could recycle RN minesweepers for the new force.
There are certain functions that plod can't do; and that need doing properly.
You need to recruit the better calibre plods to do all the paramilitary stuff (there are special mod plods and of course the CNC, so you could develop a gendarmarie from that base).
You need some general domestic intelligence, which needs graduates (for GCHQ & MI5 to be given that stuff would mean expanding them, and having some resistance from them as well); but you need something to do this job, this NCA does sound like a plausible development in that direction - it's a necessary level between the plods and the intelligence services.
You need a proper paramilitary Customs/Border Police with proper nautical and helicopter units (maybe merge the BTP into it as well), to make repairing the damage done by Labour possible; that's not the Navy's job.
Deliberately cuntish would be my guess.
Either that, or Cleggy has been fellating Cameron rather hard lately.
Shit or not, it's stimulated you into making some good points.
Thank you ;)
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