The UK government is creating a new National Police Service in England and Wales, nicknamed the British FBI by the media.
The reason behind the move is to centralise work on terrorism, fraud, organized crime and other complex cases, while leaving local forces to focus more on everyday crime.
The new National Police Service is being led by the Home Office under the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, although operationally it will be led by a national police commissioner.
Effectively, it is a merger of the National Crime Agency, College of Policing and the NPCC.
The services that stay with local police forces are the everyday, community-level duties, including routine neighbourhood policing, public order, traffic control, parking enforcement, event security, helping with local incidents and municipal rule enforcement.
The new police body is expected to be set up during this Parliament, but the government has not given a single fixed start date.
It will be created through legislation and then built out under the Home Office, so the timing ultimately depends on when the bill is passed and the implementation plan is rolled out.
