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<p>With the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Home Office funds
the National Wildlife Crime Unit, which provides intelligence, analysis and specialist
assistance to individual police forces and other law enforcement agencies in the United
Kingdom that allows them to deal effectively with wildlife crime investigations, including
cases that involve the illegal trading of ivory.</p><p>The Unit will provide briefing
notes for all UK police forces with regards to the enforcement of any changes arising
from the Government’s plans to ban the sale of any post-1947 worked ivory. The police
may also receive expert advice about ivory from organisations such as the Animal and
Plant Health Agency and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Police and NCA are
given appropriate training as their deployment requires.</p>
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