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High Tech Crime Chief Calls For New Internet Laws
News The director general of the National Crime Squad (NCS) admitted today that UK legislation is inadequate for dealing with computer-based crime. NCS will work in partnership with the National Crime Intelligence Squad (NCIS), HM Customs and Excise...
[April 18, 2001, 14:21]
Cybersquad To Combat Computer Crime
News The special unit, which will include members of the police, customs and excise, the National Crime Squad and the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), will begin work next year. Bob Packham, deputy director general of the National Crime...
[November 13, 2000, 14:04]
Hi-tech Police To Join New UK Force
News The elite police force will merge the National Crime Squad (which the NHTCU is part of), the National Criminal Intelligence Service and the investigative branches of the Customs and Immigration Service.
[February 10, 2004, 10:45]
Lord: 'British FBI' Will Be Private Home Office Police
News This legislation formerly regulated the National Criminal Intelligence Service and the National Crime Squad, which have now formed SOCA. SOCA has combined the National Crime Squad, the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit, and elements of the UK Immigration...
[April 25, 2006, 16:15]
Six Arrested Over 'Nigerian Email' Frauds
News Do you report it to the National Criminal Intelligence Service, the Metropolitan Police, the Fraud Squad, the National High-Tech Crime Unit or your local police? If you have fallen victim to the fraud, you are encouraged to contact the Specialist...
[May 21, 2002, 14:13]
Policing The Unacceptable - Bringing Paedophiles To Justice
News John Stewardson of the National Crime Squad believes it would be a good idea as long as it was a national organisation with an international remit. A body like the National Crime Squad could take it on but it would need additional staffing and...
[March 22, 1999, 12:25]
Police Slammed For 'hysterical' Response To EU Privacy Directive
News The National Crime Intelligence Squad (NCIS) last week issued what Caspar Bowden, director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, called a "hysterical" response to the planned European directive on data protection and privacy in the...
[August 13, 2001, 12:52]
Police U-turn On ISP Server Logs
News The National Crime Squad (NCS) on Thursday denied that it had access to the traffic logs of Demon Internet for Operation Landmark, despite implying on Wednesday that it had "imaged" the servers of the Internet Service Provider (ISP) for 16 days.
[November 29, 2001, 17:53]
Egg Isn't The Only Bank Cracked
News According to reports the National Crime Squad (NCS) believes that Egg may not be the only Internet bank to have been targeted by criminals. Earlier this month, the National Consumer Council called on the Government to get its act together to...
[August 24, 2000, 12:52]
Twelve Arrested For Laundering Phished Funds
News The National Hi-tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) has arrested six men and six women, with help from the National Crime Squad, the FBI and the US Secret Service. In a statement, the NHTCU said the suspects were recruited by individuals close to Russian...
[May 5, 2004, 13:55]
Police Use Face-mapping Tools To Identify Abuse Victims
News The National Crime Squad (NCS) has confirmed that it will be using sophisticated facial-mapping software to identify the children depicted in 60,000 pornographic images obtained through dawn raids on suspected Internet paedophiles.
[November 28, 2001, 14:12]
News Burst: Cybersquad To Combat Computer Crime
News The special unit, which will include members of the police, customs and excise, the National Crime Squad and the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), will start work next year. The home secretary Jack Straw will announce plans to create a...
[November 13, 2000, 9:59]
Exclusive: Government Will Not Prioritise Paedophile Cases
News Promises that Internet paedophiles would be dealt with as a "top priority" by the government's new High-Tech Crime Unit have been undermined by the National Crime Squad (NCS) which has confirmed that such cases will continue to be dealt with at a...
[February 12, 2001, 11:52]
Experts: 'British FBI' Won't Stop E-crime
News SOCA, which was launched on 1 April, has been formed from several existing police bodies including the National Crime Squad and the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit. The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit had some success in taking down fake auction and escrow...
[April 3, 2006, 15:35]
UK Suspects Arrested In Internet Paedophile Crackdown
News At 06:00 GMT, the National Crime Squad (NCS) coordinated dawn raids on the 12 British targets, and computers and software were seized as evidence. With the assistance of Demon Internet and the support and guidance of the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit...
[November 28, 2001, 11:31]
High-tech Police Tackle Internet Crime
News NHTCU will be headed up by detective chief superintendent Len Hynds, previously of the National Crime Squad. The National High-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) has been set up in reaction to the increasing use of the Internet by criminals.
[April 18, 2001, 10:19]
Confidential Reports To Aid Cybercrime Crackdown
News No statistics currently exist, and we can't do this overnight," said a spokesperson at the National Crime Squad (NCS). The head of Britain's National High-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) is calling for a confidential channel for UK businesses to report...
[June 22, 2001, 13:02]
Home Office Backs Seven-year Data Retention Laws
News The revelation dates back to a National Crime Intelligence Squad (NCIS) report leaked to The Observer in December 2000, which called for the establishment of a traffic data warehouse where communications data would be stored for seven years.
[September 28, 2001, 15:54]
Home Office Says 'no' To Cybercrime Figures
News The National Crime Intelligence Squad (NCIS), which published its Project Trawler report in 1999, was commissioned specifically to look at the implications of computer crime and raise awareness of its threat.
[April 20, 2001, 15:10]
SOCA: Beware The IT Mafia
News SOCA was formed earlier this month, combining the National Crime Squad, the National Criminal Intelligence Service and experts from HM Revenue & Customs and the UK Immigration Service. The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit, which previously dealt with...
[April 25, 2006, 15:30]
