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Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005

Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005

2005 CHAPTER 15

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Schedule 1: The Serious Organised Crime Agency

Section 36: General duty of police to pass information to SOCA

130.For SOCA to discharge its functions effectively it must have access to relevant information about crime at local and force level. To this end, this section imposes a duty on police forces in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and on special police forces (namely the British Transport Police, Ministry of Defence Police, Civil Nuclear Constabulary and the SDEA) to furnish SOCA with such information.

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