Serious Organised Crime Agency
Summary
The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) is a non-departmental public body of the Government of the United Kingdom and a national law enforcement agency in the United Kingdom.A consequence of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, SOCA formally came into being on 1 April 2006 following a merger of the National Crime Squad, the National Criminal Intelligence Service (elements of which were incorporated into AVCIS), the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), the investigative and intelligence sections of HM Revenue & Customs on serious drug trafficking, and the Immigration Service's responsibilities for organised immigration crime. The Serious Fraud Office remains as a separate agency.SOCA operates with greater powers in England and Wales than in Scotland and Northern Ireland and as such works with the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency and the Northern Ireland Organised Crime Taskforce, which share some of its functions in their respective jurisdictions.SOCA formally came into being on 1 April 2006 following a merger of the National Crime Squad, the National Criminal Intelligence Service, the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), the investigative and associated.
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Private investigators are selling access to financial and criminal records
It doesn't take long. Several minutes into their first meeting, the director of Crown Intelligence offers an undercover reporter a broad range of highly sensitive and potentially illegal personal data.
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Cyber-attack shuts UK crime body's website
LONDON (Reuters) - Hackers attacked the website of Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA), a spokesman said on Thursday, the latest in a wave of assaults against high profile targets like NASA, the Vatican and multi-national companies.
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Leveson Inquiry: News of the World 'used ex-special forces to put police under surveillance'
Former Serious Organised Crime Agency officer David Harrison tells the Leveson Inquiry that NotW surveillance teams could have disrupted the Ipswich prostitute murders inquiry.
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News of the World 'jeopardised Ipswich murder inquiry'
Leveson inquiry told paper hired former special forces soldiers to follow police surveillance team hunting for serial killer.
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News Of The World Endangered Murder Investigation: Former Cop
LONDON (AP) â A retired police officer says the News of the World endangered a murder investigation by hiring ex-special forces soldiers to follow a police surveillance team.
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NotW 'Jeopardised' Prostitute Murder Inquiry, Leveson Hears
The News of the World "jeopardised" a police inquiry into a spate of murders in Ipswich, a former senior police officer has alleged.
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Leveson inquiry: John Twomey, James Murray, Jeremy Lawton - live
Full coverage as the Daily Express, Sunday Express and Daily Star crime correspondents give evidence.
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Hacker "Sabu" worked full nights online for FBI
NEW YORK (Reuters) - One late-night visit by the FBI was all it took for the notorious hacker known as "Sabu" to switch sides and become a valued snitch.
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"Anonymous" hurt by arrests but hard to kill
LONDON (Reuters) - In turning one of its best-known hackers into an informant and breaking open the highest profile elements of the "Anonymous" movement, authorities have dealt a serious blow to a group they found a growing irritant.
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FBI arrests three suspected LulzSec hackers: source
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested three suspected members of the hacker group LulzSec and charges will be made public against two more, a law enforcement official told Reuters on Tuesday.
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