| The Serious
Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) |
The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) is a new law enforcement
agency created to reduce the harm caused to people and communities in the UK by
serious organised crime.
It takes over the functions of the National Crime
Squad (NCS), the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), the role of HMRC
in investigating drug trafficking and related criminal finance and some of the
functions of the UK Immigration Service (UKIS) in dealing with organised immigration
crime.
SOCA assumed its functions on Saturday 1 April 2006.
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