
1 
This Order may be cited as the NCIS (Secretary of State’s Objectives) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 1st April 1999.
2 
The NCIS (Secretary of State’s Objectives) Order 1998 is hereby revoked.
3 
The objectives for the National Criminal Intelligence Service (“NCIS”) are–
(a) to provide high quality and relevant criminal intelligence leading to–
(i) the dismantling or disruption of criminal enterprises engaged in serious and organised crime, and
(ii) the arrest and prosecution of criminals, whose activities take place in or impact on the United Kingdom;
(b) to provide high quality and relevant criminal intelligence and information to law enforcement agencies, having regard to the Command Paper entitled “Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain – the Government’s Ten-Year Strategy for Tackling Drugs Misuse” and in order to suppress the availability of controlled drugs in the United Kingdom.
Jack Straw
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office
11th March 1999