SOCA Feature

SOCA Feature

Following the merger of the  National Crime Squad and National
Criminal Intelligence Service the new SOCA website, with the fancy
logo, is at:
http://www.soca.gov.uk
and that is where you can now find the Money Laundering
Information and Disclosure forms - an online facility will be
available soon.
 
SOCA has new powers:
SOCA officers will be able to draw on wide-ranging new powers to:
* compel individuals to answer questions in interviews with
prosecutors and produce documents on demand;
* strike deals with informants and convicted offenders to turn
Queen's Evidence;
* use enhanced powers of confiscation in respect of proceeds of
crime investigations; and
* use Financial Reporting Orders (FBOs) which allow courts to
impose obligations on people convicted of specified offences to
report particulars of their financial affairs
 
There are lots of resulting changes, eg:
Land Registry issues new form CIT

I never realised how many different routes there for the
authorities to ask for information.
 
Or you could try Soca Music:
"What is Soca?
During the 1970s the popularity of calypso waned, and what took
its place was a more lively, up-tempo kind of music with a mixture
of calypso, Indian music, American soul, funk and disco."
http://www.socanews.com/