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Organised crime in the UK is bigger than ever before. Can the police catch up?
theguardian.com ^ | 11/22/2018 | Alex Perry

Posted on 11/27/2018 7:14:02 AM PST by rktman

All the cases Owens cited were examples of organised crime, illicit national and transnational networks that have multiplied since the 1980s 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. What to many might sound like a terrifying catalogue of crime, then, is to Owens, as the NCA’s director-general, a to-do list. Since we spoke, Owens’s caseload has expanded again to include investigations into the origins of Brexiter Arron Banks’s campaign cash and how an Azerbaijani banker’s wife, Zamira Hajiyeva, sustained a lifestyle that ran to spending £16m in Harrods in a decade.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: blimey; bloodycrooks; robbers
Core blimey. Maybe they should pass stricter laws. That always seems to work. Right? Or, quit protecting the moose limbs and focus on criminal activity instead? At least quit worrying about being so PC and break up some of these gangs?
1 posted on 11/27/2018 7:14:02 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

UK ‘elites’ are safe and that’s all that matters to their ruling class. Very similar to ours...


2 posted on 11/27/2018 7:17:43 AM PST by GOPJ (Watch for our survival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE)
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To: rktman

I would bet that 80% of this organized crime is Muslim gangs, so no, they won’t do anything about it because that would be racist.


3 posted on 11/27/2018 7:22:08 AM PST by ExpatCanuck (The)
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To: rktman

Reggie and Ronnie Kray would approve!


4 posted on 11/27/2018 7:23:44 AM PST by Reily
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To: rktman; GOPJ
Organized crime in the UK is bigger than ever before. Can the police catch up?

The police ARE the organized crime in the UK.

Organized to protect and enrich the ruling Globalist Elite Aristocracy and it's minions, the serfs be Dammed.

5 posted on 11/27/2018 7:24:30 AM PST by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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To: rktman

Or except Sharia law, and .when all non Muslims are gone things will be New Iran. Britains have been wimps for centuries.


6 posted on 11/27/2018 7:31:57 AM PST by Retvet (Retvet)
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“Britains have been wimps for centuries”.

That is a silly, ignorant statement.


7 posted on 11/27/2018 7:42:30 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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Britains have been wimps for centuries.

That's an absurd and demonstrably false statement. And BTW..proofread once in a while.

8 posted on 11/27/2018 7:54:26 AM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP! WWG1WGA)
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To: rktman

I thought that MI5 was their equivalent to our FBI.


9 posted on 11/27/2018 8:03:30 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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Hey, it’s all part and parcel now.


10 posted on 11/27/2018 8:08:16 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: rktman

If the British people don’t care WHY should I?

Keep electing enablers who continue to destroy things and this is what you get.


11 posted on 11/27/2018 8:44:06 AM PST by LeonardFMason (426)
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To: Reily

So would Doug and Dinsdale Piranha.


12 posted on 11/27/2018 9:08:12 AM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: laplata

“Britains have been wimps for centuries”.

“That is a silly, ignorant statement.”

But TRUE,


13 posted on 11/27/2018 9:22:18 AM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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NO!

Because the Courts are either corrupt or weak and the cops unarmed and neutered.

14 posted on 11/27/2018 9:26:23 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Reily

So would Harold Shand...


15 posted on 11/27/2018 9:44:02 AM PST by DickBrannigan ("And the fact that I haven't put a gun in my mouth, you pudding of a woman, makes me a winner!")
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To: elcid1970

and the giant hedgehog - Spiny Norman!


16 posted on 11/27/2018 9:44:09 AM PST by Reily
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forgotten about him!
I need to look him up and refresh my memory on that one.


17 posted on 11/27/2018 9:46:24 AM PST by Reily
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To: TonyM

BS Tell that to Winston Churchill.


18 posted on 11/27/2018 9:52:47 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Reily
So would Doug and Dinsdale Piranha
19 posted on 11/27/2018 3:32:41 PM PST by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: Retvet

Decades maybe, not centuries.


20 posted on 12/04/2018 1:57:11 AM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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