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[Gunshots]
Organised crime is everywhere. It can affect families, it can affect communities, normal people from all walks of life. The impact that it has can be devastating and every day is never the same. On a typical day the NCA deal with corruption, drugs, firearms, child sexual exploitation, cybercrime, fraud.
The NCA is a team all together to combat those offences.
"National Crime Agency, open the door!" [Knocks]
Our aim is to protect the public. Protect the public. Protect the public. Protect the public.
We work to prevent harm before it happens, building partnerships with private sector and within other law enforcement. Arresting the top cyber criminals that have an impact on the UK, criminals using malicious software to steal data, prevent online sexual exploitation of children.
A law enforcement agency that's dealing with huge amounts of intelligence and operations every single day. The NCA has a number of sensitive, niche capabilities.
"And what are they?" I couldn't tell you. [Laughs]
"Armed police, come out with your hands up."
Organised crime knows no borders. Holland, Spain, Belgium, South America, South Africa, Dubai – the list of countries where we were able to operate is endless.
It's a team job to see those results, so when you've protected an individual it makes me massively proud. Being an NCA officer means everything to me, it's a real privilege. We are making a difference to people.
Our mission
The National Crime Agency’s mission is to protect the public from serious and organised crime.
We do this by:
- Degrading the most harmful organised crime groups that pose a threat to the UK;
- Leading the national operational response to serious and organised crime in the UK.
You can read about the threat from serious and organised crime here
About us
The NCA currently employs more than 5,000 officers with a range of expertise and in a variety of roles to protect the public from serious and organised crime. Officers collect and analyse data and intelligence to understand the threat we face, and they investigate and relentlessly pursue criminals who cause the highest harm. They use forensics and surveillance to solve and stop crime, and they make sure the Agency keeps people, communities and the country safe by setting direction and providing access to the best skills, technology and tools.
The NCA’s headquarters are in London, with major hubs in Bristol, Birmingham and Warrington, as well as regional offices across the UK. To deliver our mission we work across the world with teams and officers based in more than 40 countries.
Organisation
The NCA was established by the Crime and Courts Act in 2013. We are an non-ministerial civil service department , operationally independent and accountable to Parliament thorough the Home Secretary.
How we work
We use advanced data analysis and intelligence collection to find and target the criminals that pose the greatest threat to the public, institutions and infrastructure. Our operational teams work to bring these criminals to justice, dismantle their groups and degrade the international networks that support them.
The NCA focusses its operational efforts:
- Upstream: Disrupting those at the top of the criminal chain who are responsible for the harm that organised crime causes to the UK, as well as the people and systems that support their activities and launder their money.
- Overseas: Tackling serious and organised crime at its source and en route to the UK, working alongside international partners to prevent criminal activity from reaching the UK’s streets.
- Online: Combatting the use of technology that allows criminals to plan their activity, exploit victims, and hide their criminal profits.
Leading the UK’s operational response
Our partners include police forces, HMRC, Border Force, the UK intelligence community, government departments and international organisations such as INTERPOL and EUROPOL. We also work closely with organisations in the private, charity, and regulatory sectors.
