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<p>In terms of the operational response, the Agency has a wide range of capabilities
and functions that operate across different threat areas including economic crime.
We are unable to provide a figure for the number of full-time equivalent staff who
have been employed by the National Crime Agency (NCA) to tackle economic crime for
the past three years as many units contribute to the efforts in different and varying
amounts.</p><p>However, we are able to report on the number of staff within the Economic
Crime Command which includes the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) and the UK
Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU).</p><p>The following table contains the approximate
number of full time equivalent (FTE) staff for the Economic Crime Command, UK Financial
Intelligence Unit and NECC since 2018. This is therefore a partial figure that does
not reflect, for example, officers in Intelligence and Investigations Commands who
conduct work in this threat area.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>ECC
(NECC and UKFIU) FTE (approximate)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019 FY end</p></td><td><p>240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020
FY end</p></td><td><p>300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021 FY end</p></td><td><p>350</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>An important element of tackling economic crime and illicit finance is by denying
criminals the benefit of their crimes. This disrupts organised crime groups and illicit
finance flows and on this we have achieved some significant successes. The NCA’s success
in denying criminal assets over the same three years totals £646.5m, which could have
derived from any serious and organised crime threat. This demonstrates one element
of our impact across all illicit finance for which we have readily available data.</p>
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