Inspectorate warns NCA ‘technical debt’ leaves staff using ‘obsolete IT’ to analyse large volumes of data

27th October 2025Sarah Gibbons, Contributing Editor, Policing Insight

An Inspectorate report into the UK National Crime Agency’s National Data Exploitation Capability (NDEC) is warning that the Agency risks missing vital intelligence due in part to a mounting “technical debt” that means it spends much of its annual IT budget updating hundreds of legacy systems rather than investing in long-term technology solutions, with NDEC staff using outdated and obsolete IT when trying to work on large volumes of data, as Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons reports.

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Inspectorate warns NCA ‘technical debt’ leaves staff using ‘obsolete IT’ to analyse large volumes of data

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