Serious

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Serious Organised Crime Agency
Andy Sellers Deputy Director Enforcement London
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Strategic Imperatives
1. To build knowledge and understanding - of
serious organised crime, the harm it causes, and
of SOCAs effectiveness in tackling it 2. To
increase the amount of criminal assets recovered
and increase the proportion of cases in which the
proceeds of crime are pursued 3. To increase the
risk to serious organised criminals operating in
the UK through traditional means and by
innovation within the law 4. To collaborate with
partners, and join up domestic and international
efforts to reduce harm and to provide high
quality support to partners, and, as appropriate,
seek their support in return 5. To build SOCAs
capacity to make a difference
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To reduce the harm caused to the UK by Serious
Organised Crime by

• Understanding how serious organised crime works
• Working in partnership
• Making serious organised crime unprofitable
• Increasing the risks serious organised criminals
  have to take

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Programmes of Activity
1. SOCA Subjects (key criminals) and
Associates 2. Criminal business structures and
logistics 3. Prisons and offender management 4.
Criminal finances and profits 5. Firearms 6. UK
Borders 7. Technology-enabled crime 8. The the
upstream heroin trade 9. The upstream
cocaine trade 10. Drugs trafficking from the EU
to the UK, including synthetic drugs
11.The illegal drugs trade in the UK 12.
Organised Immigration Crime Source countries 13.
Immigration crime nexus points en route to the
UK 14. Exploitation of illegal migrants in the
UK 15. Trafficking of people, in particular women
and children for the UK vice trade 16. Non-fiscal
fraud 17. Identity fraud and counterfeiting
(including intellectual property crime) 18.
Other threats 19. Emerging threats
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Programme 4 Criminal
Finances and Profits

• Build knowledge and understanding of criminal
  finances
• Mainstream money laundering and proceeds of crime
  activity throughout UK law enforcement and
  partner agencies
• Identify, target and recover criminal cash,
  assets and proceeds of the most significant
  organised criminals
• Drive continuous improvement of the SARs Regime
• Support domestic and international partners in
  attacking criminal assets

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Programme 8 Upstream
Heroin - Objectives

• To build knowledge and understanding of the
  upstream heroin trade
• Develop bilateral and multi-national strategies
  and operational plans for tackling serious
  organised criminals
• To gather information on and assess the use of
  new and emerging routes
• Support and capitalise on the NATO military
  deployment to Afghanistan
• Support the heroin signature project
• Contribute to the delivery of the EU drugs action
  plan

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Programme 10 Drugs from
EU to UK

• Build knowledge and understanding
• Develop bilateral and multi-national strategies
  and operational plans for tackling key serious
  organised criminals operating in The Netherlands
  and near continent
• Review and develop information sharing and
  collaborative working arrangements with the Dutch
  authorities
• Identify and investigate UK criminals operating
  in or with criminal links to The Netherlands and
  Spain
• Contribute to the delivery of the EU Drugs Action
  Plan
• Build knowledge and understanding of synthetic
  drugs manufacture and supply, focusing on China
  as a supplier of precursor chemicals, The
  Netherlands and Belgium as manufacturers/UK
  suppliers

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Programme 11 The Illegal
Drugs Trade in the UK

• To build knowledge and understanding of the
  illegal drugs trade in the UK, with a view to an
  overall reduction in the size of the UK drugs
  market
• Focus intelligence collection on the production,
  processing, trafficking, distribution, dealing
  and use of all illicit drugs and cutting agents
  causing harm to the UK
• Identify, build on collaborative ways of working
  with partners including ACPO, ACPOS, SCDEA, HMRC
  and Health Education
• Identify money flows in relation to the illicit
  drugs trade in the UK
• Identify and target serious organised criminals
  involved in the illegal drugs trade in the UK
• To support partner agencies in developing
  preventative measures and targeted campaigns