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UK: UK: MI5 - new powers in aid of police under theSecurity Service Act 1996

01 September 1996

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The Security Service Act 1996 came into effect on 14 October (see Statewatch vol 6 no 1). Under the Act the Home Secretary has designated the Director General of the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) as the Coordinator for the activities of MI5, the internal security agency, in "preventing and detecting" crime. A number of MI5 staff are seconded to the NCIS. The Director General, Mr Albert Pacey, said: "I will be acting as the central contact point for UK law enforcement agencies which wish to use the Security Service to support particular operations." The Act allows, among other powers, MI5 to extend its powers of "bug and burgle" to cases involving "conduct by a large number of people in pursuit of a common purpose." Home Office press release, 14.10.96.

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