The NCIS (Secretary of State’s Objectives) Order 1998

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 1997¹, 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.

Signed

Alun Michael — Minister of State — 20th January 1998

Explanatory note

(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.

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