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 . Organised 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. The act also empowered the service with rights to perform surveillance operations.
12-658: NCIS or N.C.I.S. may refer to: Law enforcement [ edit ] National Criminal Intelligence Service , the predecessor to the Serious Organised Crime Agency of the United Kingdom Naval Criminal Investigative Service , a United States law enforcement and intelligence agency that primarily investigates crimes in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps National Criminal Investigation Service ( Kripos ),
24-628: A 2009 spin-off from NCIS , a show about fictional undercover NCIS Office of Special Projects agents based in Los Angeles NCIS: New Orleans , a 2014 second spin-off from NCIS , a show about fictional NCIS agents based in New Orleans NCIS: Hawaiʻi , a 2021 third spin-off from NCIS , a show about fictional NCIS agents based in Hawaii NCIS: Sydney , a 2023 fourth spin-off from NCIS ,
36-597: A Japanese rock band formed in 2009 See also [ edit ] National Crime Information Center (NCIC) NSIS (disambiguation) JAG (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title NCIS . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NCIS&oldid=1254900530 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
48-519: A show about fictional NCIS agents and Australian Federal Police based in Sydney, Australia NCIS: Origins , a 2024 fifth spin-off from NCIS , a prequel show about original protagonist Leroy Jethro Gibbs, a fictional NCIS agent, in his early years Other uses [ edit ] National Coalition of Independent Scholars NATO Common Interoperability Standards Nothing's Carved in Stone ,
60-646: A special agency of the Norwegian Police Service Television [ edit ] NCIS (franchise) NCIS (TV series) , since 2003, a United States television show about a group of fictional agents of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service based in Washington, DC NCIS (soundtrack) , four soundtracks of music featured on the original NCIS TV series NCIS: Los Angeles ,
72-434: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages National Criminal Intelligence Service Organisation of the service included units specialising in organised crimes and crimes involving illicit drugs, football and financial issues. A specialised unit was focused especially on kidnap and extortion, counterfeit money, the stealing of automobiles and paedophilic crimes. At
84-839: The Serious Organised Crime Agency. The NCS headquarters was at Pimlico in London, with three Regional Operational Command Units: Northern, Eastern, and Western with an extensive residential property estate plus other premises. Other units were the Financial OCU, the Paedophilia Unit, the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit , and the Immigration Crime Team. The NCS consisted of 1,656 full-time personnel, including 5 Directors, 1,169 seconded police officers, and 280 civilian police staff. The NCS
96-818: The amalgamation of six former Regional Crime Squads, it merged with parts of HM Customs & Excise and the National Criminal Intelligence Service on 1 April 2006 to become the Serious Organised Crime Agency . Subsequent to the Police Reform Act 2002 , the NCS Service Authority reported directly to the Home Office and had nationwide and international jurisdiction. It did not handle security matters , referring such matters to
108-628: The appropriate security service. The NCS primarily dealt with organised crime , major drug trafficking , contract killing , arms trafficking , human trafficking , computer and high tech crimes, money counterfeiting and laundering , extortion , kidnapping and murder relating to any of the above. Lastly, it augmented and supported regional forces throughout the United Kingdom. The organisation's officers were seconded from police forces from England and Wales , supported by directly recruited specialist civilian and police staff members. It
120-402: The time of the creation of the service, there was a paedophile unit integral to the organisation of the service. The service consisted of 500 officers. The service was designed specifically to act against crime classified as both organised in performance and of a serious nature. Relevant groups were to include necessarily: The service received £138 million in funding during 1999. The unit
132-469: Was headed by a director-general and had its own service authority. The first director-general was Roy Penrose, OBE QPM, and upon his retirement in 2001, William Hughes, CBE QPM became the director-general before moving on to establish the Serious Organised Crime Agency as its founding director-general. Trevor Pearce CBE QPM previously deputy director-general took over as the third director-general before becoming an executive director and later director-general of
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#1732776250527144-805: Was merged with the National Crime Squad and other agencies in 2006 to form SOCA . The Director General had no responsibility for terrorist responses, which at the time was dealt with by the Security Service (MI5) and Constabulary Special Branches coordinated by the Metropolitan Police Special Branch (MPSB). National Crime Squad The National Crime Squad ( NCS ) was a British police organisation which dealt with national and transnational organised and major crimes. Formed in April 1998 after
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