The NCIS (Secretary of State’s Objectives) Order 1999 No. 822

3.  The objectives for the National Criminal Intelligence Service (“NCIS”) are–

(a) to provide high quality and relevant criminal intelligence leading to–

(i) the dismantling or disruption of criminal enterprises engaged in serious and organised crime, and

(ii) the arrest and prosecution of criminals, whose activities take place in or impact on the United Kingdom;

(b) to provide high quality and relevant criminal intelligence and information to law enforcement agencies, having regard to the Command Paper entitled “Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain – the Government’s Ten-Year Strategy for Tackling Drugs Misuse”(1) and in order to suppress the availability of controlled drugs in the United Kingdom.

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Cm. 3945.