Strategic Centre for Organised
Crime
Partnerships and engagement with communities
Strategic Centre for Organised Crime
SCOC
What is SCOC?
 Prevent, Protect and Prepare Unit (PPPU)
 Strategic Centre for Organised Crime (SCOC)
 Office for Security and Counter Terrorism (OSCT)
 Home Office
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What is ‘serious and organised’
crime ?
What is ‘serious and organised’
crime ?
What is the threat to the UK from Serious and
Organised Crime?
Characteristics
• A national security risk; pervasive threat with corrosive impact on communities
• Includes: drugs trafficking; human trafficking; illegal immigration; firearms; cyber
crime; fraud; counterfeiting; money laundering; organised acquisitive crime; child
sexual exploitation.
• Undermines our economy, financial institutions and online confidence
Scale
• Law enforcement estimates – approx. 5,500 organised crime groups, involving
approx. 37,000 individuals
• Costs the UK at least £24bn a year. Over 2000 drug-related deaths per year
• A complex and rapidly evolving threat. Organised criminals operate across
regional, national and international borders.
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Our response: SOC and the NCA
“7 October - a new strategy on serious and organised crime and the first formal
day of work for the new National Crime Agency. These two developments are
significant for policing and our wider national security work and certainly
represent the biggest change in the way we are going to approach serious and
organised crime for over a decade. It is unlikely that we shall see comparable
changes in one go for many years to come”
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Serious and Organised Crime Strategy
Aim: reduce the level of serious and organised crime
Pursue:
Prosecuting and disrupting serious and
organised crime
Reduce
Threat
Prevent:
Preventing people from engaging in
serious and organised crime
Reduce
Level
of SOC
Protect:
Increasing protection against serious and
organised crime
Reduce
Vulnerability
Prepare:
Reducing the impact of serious and
organised crime
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Partnerships
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Community Engagement
• Community Engagement - Umbrella Term
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Confidence
Legitimacy
Collective Efficacy
etc
• Ultimately about empowerment – Can we help people feel like
they no longer have to tolerate the intimidation, fear and
criminality they see around them, caused by serious and
organised crime.
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The Future
• Building stronger partnerships on the
local, regional and national level.
• Working together with the shared objective
of tackling serious and organised crime.
• stephen.bell@homeoffice.x.gsi.gov.uk
• 0207 035 5307
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