Police, Public Order and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2006

2 Duty to establish and maintain the Agency

(1) The Authority is to establish and maintain a body to be known as the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (“the Agency”).

(2) The Agency has the functions of—

(a) preventing and detecting serious organised crime;

(b) contributing to the reduction of such crime in other ways and to the mitigation of its consequences; and

(c) gathering, storing and analysing information relevant to—

(i) the prevention, detection, investigation or prosecution of offences; or

(ii) the reduction of crime in other ways or the mitigation of its consequences.

(3) The Agency may disseminate such information to—

(a) police forces;

(b) police forces maintained under section 2 of the Police Act 1996 (c. 16);

(c) the metropolitan police force;

(d) the City of London police force;

(e) the Police Service of Northern Ireland;

(f) the States of Jersey Police Force;

(g) the salaried police force of the Island of Guernsey;

(h) the Isle of Man Constabulary;

(i) the Ministry of Defence Police;

(j) the British Transport Police Force;

(k) the Civil Nuclear Constabulary;

(l) the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs and any other government department;

(m) the Serious Organised Crime Agency;

(n) the Scottish Administration;

(o) any other person who is charged with the duty of investigating offences or charging offenders;

(p) any other person who is engaged outwith the United Kingdom in the carrying on of activities similar to any carried on by the Agency or a police force.