Investigations and intelligence

NPS provides serious, nationally significant and cross-area investigative capability alongside national criminal intelligence and threat assessment.

• Serious and organised crime

  Investigation and disruption of serious and organised criminality where the matter meets the NPS remit.

• Nationally significant investigations

  Investigations whose seriousness, complexity or reach requires national handling.

• Cross-regional and cross-jurisdiction investigations

  Cases requiring coordination beyond one territorial policing area, where central competence exists.

• National criminal intelligence

  Developing the national intelligence picture and national threat assessment to support policing decisions.