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The National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) was a United Kingdom policing agency. Following the Police and Criminal Justice Act 2001, NCIS returned to direct funding by the Home Office in 2002 and was a non-departmental public body. On 1 April 2006 it was merged into the newly created Serious Organised Crime Agency. The unit was established in April 1992 previously known as the National Drugs Intelligence Unit.〔RW Orttung, A Stanislavovich Makarychev - (National Counter-Terrorism Strategies: Legal, Institutional, and Public Policy Dimensions in the US, UK, France, Turkey and Russia (Volume 14 of NATO Security Through Science Series) ) IOS Press, 1 Dec 2006 Retrieved 2012-07-10 ISBN 1586036955〕 Organized according to the Police Act 1997, the functions of NCIS were to gather intelligence data and analysed this information to provide the necessary insight and intelligence to national police forces.〔A Kádár - (Police in Transition: Essays on the Police Forces in Transition Countries ) Central European University Press, 2001 Retrieved 2012-07-10 ISBN 9639241156〕 The act also empowered the service with rights to perform surveillance operations.〔H Barnett, R Jago - (Constitutional & Administrative Law ) Taylor & Francis, 19 Jul 2011 Retrieved 2012-07-10 ISBN 0415578817〕 Organization of the service included units specializing in organized crimes and crimes involving illicit drugs, football and financial issues. A specialized unit was focused especially on kidnap and extortion,counterfeit monies, the stealing of automobiles and the like and paedophilic crimes.〔RJ Terrill - (World Criminal Justice Systems: A Survey ) Elsevier, 1 Nov 2009 Retrieved 2012-07-10 ISBN 1593456123〕 At the time of the creation of the service, there was a paedophile unit integral to the organisation of the service.〔Council of Europe - (Child Sexual Abuse in Europe ) Council of Europe, 2003 Retrieved 2012-07-10〕 The service consisted of 500 officers.〔 The service was designed specifically to act against crime classified as both organized in performance and of a serious nature. Relevant groups were to include necessarily:〔ME Beare - (Critical Reflections on Transnational Organized Crime, Money Laundering and Corruption ) University of Toronto Press, 2003 Retrieved 2012-07-10 ISBN 0802081908〕 * at least three people * engaging in ongoing criminal activity for prolonged periods, something like a "career criminal" 〔LF Travis - (Introduction to Criminal Justice ) Elsevier, 21 Feb 2011 Retrieved 2012-07-10 ISBN 1437734901〕 * are motivated in acting to gain in power and for the accumulation of profit. The service received £138 million in funding during 1999.〔British Information Services, Great Britain. Central Office of Information. Reference Division, Great Britain. Central Office of Information. Reference Services, Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - (Survey of current affairs, Volume 29 ) H. M. Stationery Off., 1999 > () Retrieved 2012-07-10〕 The unit was disbanded during 2006 and replaced by SOCA.〔M Maguire, R Morgan, R Reiner - (The Oxford Handbook Of Criminology ) Oxford University Press, 31 May 2007 Retrieved 2012-07-10 ISBN 0199205434〕 The Director General was responsible with other officers for terrorist responses.〔Y Alexander - (Uk's Legal Responses To Terrorism ) Cavendish Publishing, 20 Jan 2003 Retrieved 2012-07-10 ISBN 1843145278〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Criminal Intelligence Service」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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