National Criminal Intelligence Service

The National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) was a United Kingdom policing agency.

Following the Police and Criminal Justice Act 2001, NCIS returned to direct funding by the Home Office in 2002 and was a non-departmental public body.

A specialised unit was focused especially on kidnap and extortion, counterfeit money, the stealing of automobiles and paedophilic crimes.

[4] The service was designed specifically to act against crime classified as both organised in performance and of a serious nature.

Relevant groups were to include necessarily:[7] The service received £138 million in funding during 1999.