Talk:Serious Organised Crime Agency
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[edit] Title
The BBC's website titled the organization, "The Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca)."
Notice the location of the 'and' in the title.
Motoma 15:00, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
- The BBC have it wrong. Both s1(1) of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 and the agency's own website call it the Serious Organised Crime Agency. Sapient 15:03, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
- 1-april's fool? 86.39.64.202
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- The BBC were still adding the "and" in the news sections of the Today programme on Monday 3 April; however, they have now corrected their news website. -- ALoan (Talk) 10:33, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] E-mail
Can you put the email addresses of Chairman and DG? Jt_spratt 17:35, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Joke
I prusume that this is not a joke? As an edit at 19:52, 3 April 2006 said, and the user was vandalising this page. Jt_spratt 20:01, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Lmao, did someone think this was a joke because of the 1st april connection? lol. Well for anyone still confused, SOCA is very much a real UK government agency, that started work on 1st april 2006. 84.64.197.145 00:56, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Agents or Officers?
According to the BBC 6 o'clock news, BBC One, on Monday 3rd April 2006, SOCA law enforcement officals will be known as 'Agents' and not as 'Officers'. This concurs with the language used on BBC and other news websites, and is logical considering it is an 'agency'. However the SOCA website uses the word 'officers' in a number of places, so presumably the BBC has got it wrong again. I make a point of saying this purely because I was myself going to change the article to say 'agents' but hopefully now others won't make the same mistake. 84.69.75.146 19:54, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
In the realm of policing and law enforcement, incorrect reporting, as you mention above is nothing new. The media are trying to make this into a 'British FBI' which is far from the truth. Dibble999 13:54, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
- Also, in the UK government at least, one is certainly not an agent simply because one works for an agency. The terms are completely unrelated. 86.17.208.173 22:18, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
