I thought we already had that, the NCA? We don’t generally need “federal” level stuff because we don’t have different laws.
There’s some difference in trial process and civil laws (someone can correct me if there’s a real difference in criminal law, I don’t think there is though) between the countries making up the UK. But we don’t have the whole entanglement of State law vs Federal law.
So, there’s no need for anything more than what we already have which only really need to work to bring the regional forces together on serious cases.
The NCA deals with organised crime, cyber crime, trafficking and weapons, as well as being the UK liason for Interpol and Europol. The NPS will absorb the NCA, and also roll in the Met counter-terrorism unit, motorway policing, the police air service, and other functions which cross territories. It’ll also set the standards and training syllabus for the territorial forces on a national basis.
I thought we already had that, the NCA? We don’t generally need “federal” level stuff because we don’t have different laws.
There’s some difference in trial process and civil laws (someone can correct me if there’s a real difference in criminal law, I don’t think there is though) between the countries making up the UK. But we don’t have the whole entanglement of State law vs Federal law.
So, there’s no need for anything more than what we already have which only really need to work to bring the regional forces together on serious cases.
The NCA deals with organised crime, cyber crime, trafficking and weapons, as well as being the UK liason for Interpol and Europol. The NPS will absorb the NCA, and also roll in the Met counter-terrorism unit, motorway policing, the police air service, and other functions which cross territories. It’ll also set the standards and training syllabus for the territorial forces on a national basis.
So not the FBI. All sensible stuff really. Could have avoided all these headlines by extending the NCA really