Clause 4
Serious Crime Bill [Lords]
5:45 pm
Vernon Coaker (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Gedling, Labour)
Let me develop this point, and then of course I will. The UK’s model is intelligence-led policing, in which intelligence agencies and law enforcement often work hand in hand. That is not replicated anywhere else. Nowhere else in the world can one find law enforcement tasking intelligence officers on interception matters. In contrast, overseas jurisdictions protect advanced intelligence capabilities from exposure in court simply by not sharing them with law enforcement. That leaves overseas law enforcement with perfectly serviceable but more basic capabilities.