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The UK's new National Crime Agency will "relentlessly pursue organised criminals", Home Secretary Theresa May has told the BBC.
She said the body, to launch on Monday, would focus on fighting organised crime, economic crime, border policing, child protection and cybercrime.
The NCA will have 4,500 officers and aims to adopt a more visible, joined-up approach than was previously the case.
It will replace the Serious Organised Crime Agency, known as Soca.
It is the third time since 1998 that an organised crime body has been set up.
The National Crime Squad was set up 15 years ago, only to be replaced eight years later by Soca - which is now being scrapped.
The NCA will work with each of the regional police forces in the UK and similar organisations abroad.
It has significant powers to compel police forces in England and Wales to provide assistance and carry out policing operations.
Mrs May told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show that the new agency was "designed to be a relentless crime fighting body which will relentlessly pursue organised criminals".
The home secretary said: "Crime is falling in this country, but we can't be complacent - and particularly on organised crime. I don't think the last government put enough emphasis on this.
"At the core of the NCA will be intelligence. It will work at local level and regionally across government, not just the police. It will work internationally as well."
Strategic role
When plans for the NCA were first unveiled, Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the cost of creating the new agency would be expensive at a time when thousands of policing jobs were being cut.
And last January she told the House of Commons: "The new National Crime Agency faces increased responsibilities with a budget 20% lower than that of the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
"It will supposedly do everything that Soca did while picking up new responsibilities from the National Policing Improvement Agency, doing extra work at Britain's borders, and expanding work on tackling cybercrime and on tackling economic and financial crime."
Each police force in the UK has territorial responsibility for its particular area. Crimes that are carried out across more than one county or area usually involve officers from both areas.
The new body will have a strategic role in which it will attempt to look at the bigger picture of organised crime in the UK, how it operates and how it can be disrupted.
The NCA will answer directly to the home secretary and will have the same powers in Scotland as it does in England and Wales.
The situation will be different in Northern Ireland, where the agency will carry out its border and customs functions, but not other crime-fighting roles.
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