Report: Home Office has yet to account for half of budget cuts These include the creation of a National Crime Agency, the closure of the National Policing Improvement Agency and the merging of the Criminal Records Bureau and the Independent Safeguarding Authority to form a new Disclosure and Barring Service. It said the programmes lacked continuity in management, had started slowly and were initially under-resourced. The NAO said that as a result, their execution would prove "exceptionally challenging."