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Article: Elite unit winning fight with gangsters who deal in power, money and intimidation; Crime gangs are running rackets worth millions of pounds. Boris Worrall looks at the shadowy world of the Midland Mafia. BACKGROUND.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
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- October 30, 1999
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The National Criminal Intelligence Service has a low public profile but it is responsible for smashing some of the biggest organised crime networks in the region.
It has a small staff and a budget of pounds 1.25 million but this elite unit has recorded a series of startling successes in cracking crime during the past year.
But the battle is far from won. Haphazard and semi-organised crime has, in the past decade, become a ...