Serious and Organised Crime in Scotland
Specialist Crime Division, Safer Communities
Inspector Alan Dron
Serious and Organised Crime in Scotland
10.5 tonnes of
heroin annually
30,414 square
miles
Largest consumer of
cocaine in world (per
head of population)
Population of 5.3
million
Serious and Organised Crime in Scotland
South Lanarkshire
Council discipline
nine workers
Council's
leader blows
whistle on
"rife" expenses
fraud
Fraudsters con Scottish Council
out of £270,000
Gangster 'tried to
shield himself with
car manual from
hail of bullets'
Serious and Organised Crime in Scotland
Men accused of
murdering
financial adviser
Violent thug who slashed frail gran with machete, tortured man hours later
Serious and Organised Crime in Scotland
Perception
Motivation
Serious and Organised Crime in Scotland
Reality
Serious and Organised Crime in Scotland
What is Serious Organised Crime?
• Involves more than one person
• Is organised, meaning that it involves control, planning and the
use of specialist resources
• Causes, or has the potential to cause significant harm
• Involves benefit to the individual concerned, particularly
financial gain
Serious and Organised Crime in Scotland
• DIVERT – Individuals (particularly young
people) from engaging in using the
products of serious organised crime
• DISRUPT – The activities of SOCGs
• DETER – Serious Organised Crime by
implementing measures to protect
communities, businesses and the public
sector
• DETECT – Boost capacity and improve
co-ordination
Interventions – Reducing Vulnerabilities
Solutions – Evidence of Success
• Local Authority Internal Audit potential and actual impact of Serious
Organised Crime
• Scottish Procurement Policy Note
2/2010 – Use of the Security
Industry Authority Approved
Contractors Scheme for Security
Industry Services
Interventions – Reducing Vulnerabilities
Disruptions – Evidence of Success
• Removal of construction contracts
• Closure of licensed premises + security companies
• £1.5 million in lost revenue to major cosmetic importer and
distributor
• Revocation of taxis licenses
• Removal of contracts by public bodies
• Instigation of legal proceedings for evasion of council tax and
non domestic business rates
• Contravention of The Representation of the People Act 1983
(potential £5000 per year)
SCOTLAND’S DRUG
SEIZURES DOUBLE
Serious and Organised Crime in Scotland
Millionaire with cocaine
habit so bad his nose
collapsed is jailed
£220m drugs gang, who flooded
Scotland with heroin + cocaine
jailed for more than 60 years
Serious and Organised Crime in Scotland
The Future
‘This is a global problem affecting us all and we cannot simply
arrest our way out of it’.
Opening speech by John Morton, Director of Immigration and Customs
Enforcement for the Department of Homeland Security, 14 September 2011
• Local Authority Serious Organised Crime SPoC’s
• Police Scotland LALO’s + PIP Departments
• Scottish Business Resilience Centre
Thank You
Tuesday 10 September 2013 • Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow
Inspector Alan Dron, Interventions