The Act Schedule 1: The Serious Organised Crime Agency Section 36: General duty of police to pass information to SOCA
130.For SOCA to discharge its functions effectively it must have access to relevant information about crime at local and force level. To this end, this section imposes a duty on police forces in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and on special police forces (namely the British Transport Police, Ministry of Defence Police, Civil Nuclear Constabulary and the SDEA) to furnish SOCA with such information.