by Jim Kouri
The United Kingdom is on an organized crime fighting rampage, this week they unveiled its own version of the FBI–called “the National Crime Agency” (NCA). It’s like Licensed-to-kill agent 007, James Bond, teaming up with double-tough Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio
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There are about 38,000 organized criminals in the U.K. and around 6,000 organized crime groups This estimated total cost of organized crime to the U.K. includes £17.6bn (trafficking of controlled drugs), £7.8bn (financial crime) and a proportion of the £27bn cost of all cyber crime. Research suggests that around six per cent of homicides have some link to, or are driven by, organized crime. There were an estimated 2,600 trafficked female victims of sexual exploitation in England and Wales during a 12-month period.
