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Police chiefs back proposals for British FBI
By Alan Travis
The Guardian (U.K.), October 28, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1072394,00.html

Britain's most senior police officers last night threw their weight 
behind the creation of a new FBI-style law enforcement unit and a 
separate border police force to tackle serious and organised crime.

The Association of Chief Police Officers said its members were also 
pressing ministers to make identity theft and people-trafficking 
specific criminal offences, and to give authorities new US-style 
anti-racketeering powers to compel witnesses to give evidence in the 
most serious cases.