This for you Brits : Organised crime in the UK is bigger than ever before
Lynne Owens the country’s most senior police officer was asked to describe 21st-century crime in the UK.
All the cases Owens cited were examples of organised crime, illicit national and transnational networks that have multiplied since the 1980's and now make an annual £1.5tn around the world and £37bn, or 1.8% of GDP, in Britain. It was to tackle this threat that the NCA was established five years ago as a national intelligence and police force – inevitably described in the press as the closest thing Britain has to an FBI.
The UK has it an organised crime problem. Say it ain't so you Brits.
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Technology has enabled whole new illicit industries. Fraud, mostly online, is at an all-time high of 3.4m thefts of a total of £193bn in 2017. Other kinds of cyber-crime include Wannacry, a piece of North Korean ransomware that paralyzed much of the health system for four days in May 2017, and online child sex abuse, which rose 700�tween 2014 and 2017 and now draws a British audience of 80,000, equal to the entire UK prison population. Leftist and child sex is just the norm. |
