Serious Organised Crime Agency Organised Crime Affects everyone

Serious Organised Crime Agency

Organised Crime • Affects everyone • Big business • Fluid and resilient

Introducing SOCA • Intelligence and executive functions • 4, 300 staff • Operates across UK and overseas

Criminal Justice Excellence • Arrest and prosecution • Early involvement of prosecutors • Use of new powers

Knowledge • Knowing where, when and how to strike • New investment • Strong information flows with public and private sectors

Newness • New techniques to disrupt and undermine • Mobilising others • Stronger attacks on proceeds of crime

Partnership • Traditional partners • New partners • Joint planning of activity

Impact • Criminals finding UK a less attractive market • More proceeds of crime recovered • Reduced harm to communities

International partnerships • Highly valued by SOCA • Common strategies and shared responsibility • Close bilateral relationships in key locations in the world • Cooperation with liaison officers in London • Development of international agencies

SOCA Liaison Officers • A single international network for the first time • Development of previous arrangements with key new features • Network of 115 SOCA Liaison Officers in 39 countries • Large investments in Spain, Turkey, the Netherlands, Colombia, Jamaica, and Afghanistan

Multilateral work • National centre for Interpol, Europol and others – 130 staff • Strong supporters of Europol • SIS and other EU capabilities • Interpol • NGOs

Strategic priorities • Improve our knowledge and understanding • Raising the risk for Organised Crime • Support UK and non-UK partners • Partnership work across all sectors of our business • Attacking the profit motive

Key new features • Exploiting new intervention tools – criminal finances through revised SAR regime – crime techniques – private sector and regulators – military capabilities and intelligence agencies

Key new features • Bulk data management • Global response capability • Future scanning • Embedded officers and joint stations

Key messages • Collaboration is highly important to SOCA • Maximise our use of new powers • Commitment to work in some new ways • We do not have a “too difficult” file

Serious Organised Crime Agency Bill Hughes Director General