New era | National Crime Agency, UK, delegation meets CTTC chief

A delegation from the United Kingdom’s national law enforcement agency, the National Crime Agency, paid a courtesy call on Bangladesh’s Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime chief, Md. on Wednesday. Masud Karim, at his office in Dhaka.

The meeting was held as part of continuing existing cooperation in increasing the capacity of the fight against terrorism, a police press release said.

The NCA and UK team expressed their desire to continue providing specialized training to CTTC personnel to improve their work efficiency in the fight against terrorism and international crimes, the press release said.

During the meeting, they also stressed on the need for CTTC personnel to be provided with modern training in cybercrime, transnational crime and money laundering.

Both the NCA, UK and NTTC have expressed their desire to continue mutual cooperation towards this goal, the release said.

NCA is the UK’s leading agency against organized crime; human, arms and drug trafficking; cybercrime; and economic crime that crosses regional and international borders, but it can be mandated to investigate any crime.

While the CTTC is charged with investigating cybercrime, cyber patrols, weapons, ammunition, explosives and narcotics, and organized and transnational crimes.