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UK: Director Generals for NCS and NCIS

01 November 1997

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Roy Penrose, the national coordinator of the Regional Crime Squads in England and Wales, was appointed as the first director general of the National Crime Squad (NCS) in September. Penrose will take up his position before the establishment of the NCS in April 1998. The NCS will be responsible for "tackling serious crime across regional and national boundaries and collecting and developing intelligence." Also in September, John Abbot was confirmed as director general of the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS); he succeeds Albert Pacey. Abbot has been deputy director general for the past 12 months. He was only offered the post after John Hamilton, chief constable of Fife police and a former member of the RUC, turned it down. Hamilton had been assistant director general of NCIS with responsibility for the UK division which manages the Scottish/Irish liaison unit in London, during 1995. NCIS' brief is to "collect, develop and analyze criminal intelligence to assist police forces and other law enforcement agencies in the UK and abroad."

Police Review 19.9.97; NCIS News release 29.9.97; Home Office press release 12.9.97, 19.9.97.

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