By Dominic Maher, 7 September 1999 16:06
NEWS Organised crime in the UK is already estimated to be worth £50bn a year, and criminals are increasingly adapting modern technology to their purposes, according to John Abbott, head of the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS). A spokesman for the NCIS said: "Criminals will adopt and adapt new methods and exploit them for their own end." He also predicted that a wide range of criminal offences will be perpetrated across the Web. Theft of high value computer parts is also a growing problem, he added.
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