National Crime Agency
| National Crime Agency | |
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| Abbreviation | NCA |
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 7 October 2013 |
| Preceding agencies | |
| Annual budget | £448 million (2015/2016) |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
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| Jurisdiction of the National Crime Agency | |
| Population | 65,182,178 |
| Legal jurisdiction | Full in England and Wales and Northern Ireland; limited in Scotland |
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| Headquarters | 1 – 6 Citadel Place, Tinworth Street, London SE11 5EF |
| Sworn Officers | 1,791 |
| Overall workforces | 4194 |
| Elected officer responsible | Amber Rudd, Home Secretary |
| Agency executive | Lynne Owens, Director-General |
| Parent agency | Home Office |
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The National Crime Agency (NCA) is a national law enforcement agency in the United Kingdom. It was established in 2013 as a non-ministerial government department, replacing the Serious Organised Crime Agency and absorbing the formerly separate CEOP as one of its commands. It also assumed a number of responsibilities of other law enforcement agencies.
It is the UK's lead agency against organised crime; human, weapon and drug trafficking; cyber crime; and economic crime that goes across regional and international borders, but can be tasked to investigate any crime. The NCA has a strategic role in which it looks at the bigger picture across the UK, analysing how criminals are operating and how they can be disrupted. To do this it works closely with regional organised crime units (ROCUs), the Serious Fraud Office, as well as individual police forces. It is the UK point of contact for foreign agencies such as Interpol, Europol and other international law enforcement agencies. The NCA Director-General, (currently Lynne Owens), has the power to direct regional police chiefs to concentrate their resources where necessary, making her one of the most senior law enforcement leaders in the country.
The NCA has also taken on a range of functions from the National Policing Improvement Agency that has been scrapped as part of the government's changes to policing. These include a specialist database relating to injuries and unusual weapons, expert research on potential serial killers, and the National Missing Persons Bureau. The agencies going into the NCA had a combined budget of £812m, yet the new agency only had £464m in its first year - a decrease of 43%. Some of the responsibilities of the former UK Border Agency (now Border Force) relating to border policing also became part of the NCA. Like its predecessor SOCA, the NCA has been dubbed the "British FBI" by the media.
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