Crime report reveals Scotland ‘terror attack’ plan

The NCA is the UK’s lead agency against organised crime including human, weapon and drug trafficking, and cybercrime and economic crime.

Its involvement in Operation Ferulic is mentioned in a report to the board of the Scottish Police Authority, the organisation which oversees policing in Scotland.

The document details the NCA’s activities in Scotland between October 2023 and March 2024.

It says it was involved in 276 investigations in 2023/24 which disrupted serious and organised crime in Scotland, a 10% increase on the previous year.

In the last six months, 15 investigations are said to have had a major impact on criminal activity including drugs, firearms and child sexual abuse.

The report says over 100 officers from the NCA, Police Scotland and a regional organised crime unit from the south-west of England executed 12 search warrants against organised crime group members based across Greater Glasgow.

This was part of a national investigation into large scale fraud targeting elderly and vulnerable victims, with seven people arrested for money laundering and fraud offences.