News Summary

• Regulator says NCA's aging tech drags down productivity, forces officers to juggle hardware and do manual workarounds.
• Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) told to urgently overhaul an IT estate so dysfunctional that officers say they are fighting serious organized crime despite the technology rather than because of it.
• HMICFRS has given the NCA and Home Office until September 30 to explain how they intend to dig the agency out of its technology hole, complete with timelines, funding requirements, and a plan to retire aging systems.