The NCIS (Secretary of State’s Objectives) Order 1998
This Order sets out the Secretary of State’s objectives for the National Criminal Intelligence Service (“NCIS”). Section 2 of the Police Act 1997 requires the NCIS Service Authority to have regard to these objectives in the discharge of its functions. Section 4 of the 1997 Act requires the NCIS Service Authority to issue a service plan which must give particulars of these objectives.