NATIONAL CRIME AGENCY-NCA
NATIONAL CRIME AGENCY-NCA

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, the author, in addition to reviewing the existing police organization in the UK and reviewing reform measures within the security sector, paid special attention to the analysis of facts that contributed to the formation of the National Anti-Crime Agency. He states that the NCA is the central, umbrella agency for the fight against crime, with the task of creating a unified picture of criminal activities on the entire territory of Great Britain, to analyze the manifestations of crime and to propose measures for its suppression, which is its intelligence function. However, it also has the task of coordinating work, investigations and improving methods of fighting all types of crime, which are its operational-executive and scientific-research functions. Through the NCA, as well as through its predecessor SOCA, international cooperation is carried out. The author points out the fact that in addition to executive police powers and the right to exercise their powers throughout the UK, the Director General of the agency is given authority, which in fact sets the NCA as a hierarchical central agency in the fight against serious and organized crime, to order any police chief in the United Kingdom to assist the agency in its work. In the end, the author concludes that the formation of the NCA is the adequate response to modern forms of crime, which, along with terrorism and corruption, are one of the most dangerous non-military security threats.

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