Allan Brown Consultant in WJB Chiltern's VAT/Customs & Excise Investigations Team considers the changing fortunes of Britain's oldest law enforcement agency
Few commentators would disagree with the view that the past year has been more than a little difficult for those within Customs charged with the responsibility of investigating preparing and presenting criminal cases for prosecution in the courts. There have in truth been few highlights as the once unassailable professional reputation of the Department's investigators was battered and bruised — perhaps irreparably.
The Home Secretary's announcement on 9 February that a new multi-disciplined agency — the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) — will from 2006 assume both the control and conduct of certain areas of Customs' traditional caseload casts a further shadow of...
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Allan Brown Consultant in WJB Chiltern's VAT/Customs & Excise Investigations Team considers the changing fortunes of Britain's oldest law enforcement agency
Few commentators would disagree with the view that the past year has been more than a little difficult for those within Customs charged with the responsibility of investigating preparing and presenting criminal cases for prosecution in the courts. There have in truth been few highlights as the once unassailable professional reputation of the Department's investigators was battered and bruised — perhaps irreparably.
The Home Secretary's announcement on 9 February that a new multi-disciplined agency — the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) — will from 2006 assume both the control and conduct of certain areas of Customs' traditional caseload casts a further shadow of...
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