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Focuses on the counterfeiting incidents using euro banknotes in Great Britain. Disclosure of information on forgery by the National Criminal Intelligence Service; Anticipation on the substantial interest in counterfeiting currency; Introduction of plastic notes. INSET: Banking on bugs..

The article focuses on corruption of the Palestinian Authority (PA) headed by Yasir Arafat. A report was published by Britain's National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) estimating the Palestinian Liberation Organization's (PLO) loot in a 1993 briefing paper on organizations threatening Great Britain, calling it the richest of all terrorist organizations. Investigation of Arafat and the PA's wealth in November 1995, by the U.S. General Accounting Office, was kept secret because the Central Intelligence Agency insisted that the publicity would hurt the national security interest. Last year, at least $45 million per month was transferred directly to Arafat, most notably from the Saudis and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, not to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people, but to fund PLO terrorist training and organizations.

This article reports on the announcement made by the British National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) that cybercriminals are making a mint bringing e-commerce firms to a standstill with distributed denial of service attacks. In a report issued on August 3, 2005, called the "2005 UK Threat Assessment" the NCIS details cases from 2004 in which a gang based in Russia used a botnet, a network of virus-infected computers, to flood several online gambling Web sites with useless data, so they couldn't trade with their users.

The article reports that the government of Great Britain has admitted that the criminals stole £2.7 million when its online tax credits application portal was defrauded. HM Revenue & Customs has said that it prevented even higher losses by closing the web site on 16 December, 2005 and working with National Criminal Intelligence Service to investigate the fraud. Network Rail revealed last week that a significant number of its employees have had their identities stolen by criminals looking to defraud the HMRC tax credit portal.

Reports on the impact of the interception of a number of major shipments of cocaine by British Customs and Excise officers working at the south coast ferry port in Dover, England. Details of the incidents; Assessment of the overall annual supply of cocaine in Great Britain by the National Criminal Intelligence Service; Key element of an effective drug enforcement.

Reports on the need for Great Britain-based business enterprises to demand the government to bolster its anti-corruption legislation. Need to prosecute more British companies suspected of foreign bribery practices; Aim of the Anti-Terrorism Act; Investigation of bribery allegations by the National Criminal Intelligence Service.

Focuses on Nigeria-based con men's utilization of the Internet to defraud hundreds of businesses and charities across Great Britain. National Criminal Intelligence Service's full investigation into the incidents; Modus operandi; Fraudsters' targeting of charities.

Discusses English sports fans in spring 2000. Anxiety about English hooliganism in light of the European football championships to be held in Belgium and the Netherlands; Efforts of Britain's National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) and home secretary Jack Straw to encourage Belgian and Dutch ambassadors to stop known fans at their borders who are likely to start trouble; How NCIS divides fans into three categories.

Investigates a decrease in truck crime rate in Great Britain in 2004. Number of truck crime reports received by TruckPol, the Metropolitan Police road freight crime unit; Role of police in the decline; Recommendations of the British National Criminal Intelligence Service to decrease truck crime.

Reports on the conflict between British Chancellor Gordon Brown and Home Secretary Jack Straw over the tax status of two crime-fighting organizations. Argument over the Treasury's refusal to allow the National Crime Squad and the National Criminal Intelligence Service to reclaim their value-added tax (VAT) payments; Suggestion that the VAT ruling could mean a loss of hundreds of police officers.

Reports on the possibility of losing police officers as a consequence of the value-added tax (VAT) ruling in Great Britain. Decision not to allow the National Crime Squad and the National Criminal Intelligence Service to claim back their VAT payment; VAT increase; Statutory concessions given to the police bodies.

Focuses on the role of police forces and security services on crime prevention in Great Britain. Effects on cost-effective programs of spending on police and prisons; Creation of the National Criminal Intelligence Service; Weakness of the cabinet government for detective functions.