National Crime Agency charges 5 users with drug offences

The National Crime Agency's campaign against dark web criminality continues - 5 more charged with drug offences in dark web forums.

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[9 Points] Karma_ChameleORN:

Meanwhile in the real world....

The new National Crime Agency needs to make “drastic improvements” in its work to claw back criminal assets, after it seized just £22.5m in its first year despite costing almost £500m, according to a report by MPs.

The Commons home affairs select committee said on Thursday that the NCA, which became fully operational in October 2013, is not yet meeting expectations and that the money it clawed back in its first year is not enough to justify its budget. “It is not yet the FBI equivalent that it was hailed to be,” said Keith Vaz, the committee chairman.

The committee also voiced concerns about the NCA’s slow response to the backlog of child abuse cases, including 2,000 names sent by the Toronto police to the child exploitation and online protection centre in July 2012. Ceop is now part of the NCA.

The MPs endorsed the ambitious programme of police reform undertaken by the home secretary, Theresa May, which has seen all the major policing bodies overhauled and reformed. But they added that it is still far from clear whether this attempt to “declutter the policing landscape” will lead to fewer organisations in the end.

They also said that one major piece of the jigsaw – the future of counter-terrorism policing – had yet to be settled. The Metropolitan police currently have national responsibility for counter-terrorism and have already seen off an attempt to transfer responsibility to the NCA.

The MPs said they agree with the home secretary’s decision not to review the position of counter-terrorism policing before the general election because of the terrorism risk currently faced by Britain.

They said: “However, given recent national events and global atrocities, it does not appear likely that the terrorism risk will decrease in the near future. Therefore, we recommend that the review take place early in the next parliament, to maximise the impact of the police’s counter-terrorism capabilities.”

The NCA took over from the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), which also had powers to claw back assets from criminals. During the MPs’ inquiry, Keith Bristow, the NCA’s director general, said that his organisation had seized £22.5m in its first year, with 3,329 arrests and 400 convictions. This compared with Soca’s £14.9m assets it recovered in its last year of operation.

Vaz said: “The NCA has been a success and has proved to be more responsive and more active than its predecessor, Soca, but it is not yet the FBI equivalent that it was hailed to be. Its reputation has been damaged by the unacceptably slow response to the backlog of child abuse cases sent to it by the Toronto police … Its current asset recovery is not of a sufficient volume when set against its half a billion pound budget.”

Bristow announced details on Monday of a new information-sharing agreement with the 10 biggest British banks to hand the NCA details of the accounts and financial transactions of people suspected of money laundering and other serious offences. This agreement could lead to a major boost in the recovery of criminal assets.

The MPs’ report also said that the need to make further savings after the general election meant that voluntary mergers were back on the agenda for those forces that believed they would not be able to operate in their current form.


[6 Points] AllJoociedUP:

Suck it. You can get 5 but try getting the thousands others online already. And the thousands other that will follow. This is a virus..

Kudo on catching the Child molester, but other than that. Fuck off. I really hate those douche bags ruining my privacy and safety of buying gear online. Luckily you got to him before I did, he would have a handcuff around his neck.

Don't you realize that for eveyone that you take down, there are three who are watching how you take them down and crafting a better business model around it.? You really think your going to win this war on drugs. Really? Really....?

Like I said. Its a virus. And its spreading. The more users who use it the stronger it gets. And more and more users are using it. This is Y2K! We run this show, and you are our puppets.


[7 Points] None:

I like the police in England. They don't even carry guns, they carry water pistols or some shit. There's that old comedy skit where a British police officer goes up to a criminal and goes:

"STOP!...or we'll shout stop again!".

Still it's quite cute really ...here they are on the interwebz boasting about Pluto Pete finally getting charged in connection with Silk road. A bust which was lead and co-ordinated by, er, the Americans.

He's an ancient hippy who sells bongs and shit.

Hardly big league.


[5 Points] jrgsquash:

You guys never got a good education did you ? Lets put your stupid fight against DNM's to a test of logical thinking. There are about 250,000 DNM users, but let's make that number 2x as high just to humiliate you even more. So, 500,000 DNM users; Lets throw out a unrealistic number to humiliate you even more, say you arrested 300,000 of those users. This would take multiple years, for the same sake, lets say three years. In those 3 years, you would recover 15 million dollars in assets, totally over-estimated but it is all for a purpose. Out of those 3 years, where you were searching for those people, it would be a lot more effective to focus on the streets, the place where people can't live safely because of drug trafficking and violence. Anyways, in those 3 years where you only gained 15 million dollars, you would have had expenses of more than 100 million, on the basis that you hire 10,000 people, who only get paid 35,000 a year. Now, I bet your tax-payers love this, 300,000 people incarcerated would cost the Government 65,000 dollars a year per prisoner ( very generous) 19,500,000,000 a year for non-violent crimes. Explain your logic? and please correct my math, I know that it might be incredibly off but it is still an enormous amount of money. All numbers are favored for the Agency besides the cost of prisoners per year, I know in the US it is 100,000 something an inmate, or something ridiculous.


[3 Points] PM_ME_KREBS_CYCLE:

Good luck...


[3 Points] ThatsMonicaLewinsky:

Obviously, no one click through to that link.