Statutory Instruments
POLICE
Made
20th January 1998
Laid before Parliament
23rd January 1998
Coming into force
13th February 1998
In exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 26(1) of the Police Act 1997(1), and after consultation with the organisations mentioned in subsection (2), the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the NCIS (Secretary of State’s Objectives) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 13th February 1998.
2. The objectives for the National Criminal Intelligence Service (“NCIS”) are—
(a)to improve the quality of criminal intelligence available from overseas about criminals engaged in serious and organised transnational crime which impacts on the United Kingdom;
(b)to improve the quality of criminal intelligence available to combat serious and organised crime within the United Kingdom.
Alun Michael
Minister of State
Home Office
20th January 1998
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order sets out the Secretary of State’s objectives for the National Criminal Intelligence Service (“NCIS”). Section 2 of the Police Act 1997 requires the NCIS Service Authority to have regard to these objectives in the discharge of its functions. Section 4 of the 1997 Act requires the NCIS Service Authority to issue a service plan which must give particulars of these objectives.