Techno-crime steals the limelight in NCIS report

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.