§ The Earl of Northeskasked Her Majesty's Government:
What role, and with what powers, it anticipates that the National Crime Intelligence Service will play in policing the World Wide Web, and how any such role will be accommodated within existing and proposed data protection and freedom of information legislation
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord Williams of Mostyn)The role of the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) is to provide the police and other law enforcement agencies with intelligence on serious and organised crime. Such work includes dealing with reports about the use of the internet for the distribution of child pornography and is consistent with both current and proposed data protection legislation. There are no plans to give NCIS a specific role for policing the Internet.