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In addition, what budget has been allocated for setting up the new service? Is it new money, or has it been re-allocated from another service? Finally, what is the timetable for completing the establishment of that welcome service? I invite him today to put his answer on the record from the Dispatch Box. The Minister helpfully wrote to me on the matter on 18th February. I asked the Minister whether the tracking of those guns related only to crimes committed in this country, or whether our agencies would have access to information on guns used in overseas crime. It is to be run within the Forensic Science Service-a welcome development. The Minister referred in Committee to the creation of a national computerised forensic firearms intelligence database to be used for tracking guns used in crime. A third reason for raising the issue is a press release from the Home Office today, to which I shall refer later. I had not had the opportunity to read the assessment at the time of the Committee stage. I need to return to the issue for two reasons: first, to ask the Minister to respond more fully to matters I raised in Committee and, secondly, to ask questions based on the facts given in the NCIS UK threat assessment 2002. In his response in Committee, the noble Lord, Lord Filkin, made some helpful comments, for which I thank him. It is also a call for the Government to address the creation of a long-term strategy to prevent firearms getting into this country and on to our streets. The amendment seeks to prompt an explanation from the Government of what work they and the law enforcement agencies are carrying out to stop guns coming into our country from abroad. I asked the Government in Committee to put on the record the approach that they intend to take to the problem of firearms already in the UK and the conversion of replica weapons and airguns.
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It would also require the Home Secretary to have regard to the desirability of ensuring such effective co-operation to prevent the importation of firearms when setting the priorities, plans and objectives for police forces under the legislation that authorises him to set those priorities, plans and objectives. My amendment would require the Secretary of State to facilitate the work of the law enforcement agencies by ensuring effective international co-operation between the police forces of the UK and the authorities in other countries. Naturally, I pay tribute to the work already undertaken in this area by the men and women of the National Criminal Intelligence Service, the National Crime Squad, the police and other law enforcement agencies-not least Customs and Excise, which is at the coalface in trying to detect those weapons. I have focused on the work done by the Home Office and the law enforcement agencies in preventing the importation of firearms into the United Kingdom. My Lords, this amendment would insert a new clause on international co-operation and the general duty of the Secretary of State on firearms and firearms-related crime. Hansard source (Citation: HL Deb, 3 March 2003, c627).Link to this speech In context Individually.(d) determining objectives for the National Crime Squad under section 71 of that Act (setting of objectives) he shall have regard to the desirability of ensuring effective co-operation with foreign and international law enforcement agencies to prevent the unlawful importation of firearms into the United Kingdom." (c) determining objectives for the National Criminal Intelligence Service under section 26 of the Police Act 1997 (setting of objectives) (b) determining objectives for the policing of the areas of all police authorities under section 37 of that Act (setting of objectives for police authorities) (a) preparing a National Policing Plan under section 36A of the Police Act 1996 (c. (d) the National Crime Squad, in preventing the unlawful importation of firearms into the United Kingdom by ensuring effective international co-operation between those bodies and other foreign and international law enforcement agencies. (c) the National Criminal Intelligence Service, and (b) the Police Service of Northern Ireland, (1) It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to facilitate the work of. "FIREARMS: INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION AND GENERAL DUTY OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE After Clause 80, insert the following new clause.