§ Mr. Andrew F. BennettTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what changes are proposed to the executive powers of the executive co-ordinator of the 655W regional crime squads; and whether the executive co-ordinator is to be given overall control of the regional criminal intelligence offices and the technical support units.
§ Mr. Peter LloydWhen the new national criminal intelligence service is established in 1992, the executive co-ordinator of the regional crime squads will become one of its two deputy directors. There will be no change to the existing situation in which the executive co-ordinator has no executive authority in relation to either the regional criminal intelligence offices or the technical support units.
§ Mr. Andrew F. BennettTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will(a) list the titles of the branches and squads for the Metropolitan police specialist operations department, and (b) state how the creation of the national criminal intelligence service will affect these units.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe information requested is as follows:
SO1 International and Organised Crime Branch 1 Squad. Major investigation pool 2 Squad. National office for the suppression of counterfeit currency 3 Squad. Extradition, passport and illegal immigration-deportation 5 Squad. Central cheque squad 6 Squad. Stolen motor vehicle investigation squad SO2 Crime support branch SO3 Scenes of crime branch SO4 National identification bureau SO5 Miscellaneous force indexes SO6 Metropolitan and City police company fraud squad SO7 Metropolitan police forensic science laboratory SO8 Serious crime branch (flying squad) SO9 Regional crime squad SO10 1Crime operations group SO11 1 Metropolitan police criminal intelligence branch SO12 Special branch SO13 Anti-terrorist branch SO14 Royalty protection branch SO15 Royal palaces division SO16 Diplomatic protection group SO17 PNC bureau SO18 Palace of Westminster 1 It is presently intended that parts of these units will become part of the national criminal intelligence service. 2 The commercial criminal intelligence bureau (presently part of SO6) will become part of the national criminal intelligence service.
§ Mr. Andrew F. BennettTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what is the transitional and full "cut over" date for users of the integrated national criminal intelligence system;
(2) which existing databases will form the basis for the integrated national criminal intelligence system;
(3) if he will list the location of all the regional criminal intelligence offices; and indicate which offices (a) are fully computerised, (b) have an interfacing capacity with national intelligence units and (c) have been earmarked for closure in the proposed reorganisation of the national intelligence gathering system;
(4) if he will detail which, if any, national intelligence units are using new computing facilities provided as part of the integrated national criminal intelligence system.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThere are currently nine regional criminal intelligence offices, none of which is fully computerised and all of which interface with the police national computer. Their locations are:
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Regional criminal intelligence offices Location 1 Manchester 21 Durham 3 Wakefield 4 Birmingham 5, 6 and 9 London 7 Bristol 81 Cardiff 1 Earmarked for closure on 31 March 1992. A computer system is being developed to support the new national criminal intelligence service and it is intended that the system will be introduced in 1994. It will incorporate selected data from the national drugs intelligence unit database and will replace the crime pattern analysis facility presently provided by the police national computer.
§ Mr. Andrew F. BennettTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if there are any plans to create a DNA database as part of the national criminal intelligence system or on the new PNC 2 computer.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThere are no such plans. The question of establishing a DNA database has been put to the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice.