http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4107877.stm
"The planned 'British FBI' could lead to political interference in policing, the Police Federation has warned.
The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) is due to absorb around 1,800 officers, plus immigration and customs officials, into its ranks in 2006.
Soca's staff will be civilian, but with powers of investigation and arrest.
Federation chairman Jan Berry said the government seemed 'obsessed' with removing 'the political independence to uphold the law impartially'. "
