this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2026
74 points (100.0% liked)

World News

52363 readers
3541 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought we already had that, the NCA? We don't generally need "federal" level stuff because we don't have different laws.

There's some difference in trial process and civil laws (someone can correct me if there's a real difference in criminal law, I don't think there is though) between the countries making up the UK. But we don't have the whole entanglement of State law vs Federal law.

So, there's no need for anything more than what we already have which only really need to work to bring the regional forces together on serious cases.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The NCA deals with organised crime, cyber crime, trafficking and weapons, as well as being the UK liason for Interpol and Europol. The NPS will absorb the NCA, and also roll in the Met counter-terrorism unit, motorway policing, the police air service, and other functions which cross territories. It’ll also set the standards and training syllabus for the territorial forces on a national basis.

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

So not the FBI. All sensible stuff really. Could have avoided all these headlines by extending the NCA really