Contents
Home Secretary Foreword 6
Executive Summary 8
Our approach 8
Pursue 10
Prevent 10
Protect 11
Prepare 11
Conclusion 12
Introduction 13
Characteristics of serious and organised crime 14
The scale and impact of serious and organised crime 14
Organised crime types in the UK 16
Illegal drugs 16
Illegal firearms 17
Fraud and financial crime 18
Money laundering 19
Child sexual exploitation 19
Organised immigration crime and human trafficking 20
Organised acquisitive crime 21
Cyber crime 21
Our Strategic Response 25
PURSUE: Prosecuting and disrupting seriousand organised crime 27
i. Establish strong organisations and effective collaboration to lead work against serious and organised crime 27
National 27
Regional 29
Local 29
The UK border 31
ii. Develop our capabilities to detect, investigate, prosecute and disrupt serious and organised crime 31
Intelligence and investigation 32
Data analysis 32
Firearms 32
Disruption 33
Coordination and communications 33
People skills 33
Convergence: counter-terrorism and organised crime 34
iii. Attack criminal finances by making it harder to move, hide and use the proceeds of crime 34
Recovering the proceeds of crime 34
Effective powers 35
Enforcement of court orders 35
Recovery of hidden assets overseas 36
Anti-money laundering (AML) regulations 36
iv. Ensure that effective legal powers are available and are used to deal with the threat from serious and organised crime 37
v. Internationally, improve our own capabilities and our cooperation with others to better tackle organised crime networks 38
Effective international representation 38
Foreign nationals and organised crime in the UK 40
UK criminals overseas 40
Capacity and capability building in third countries 41
Organised crime work, the EU and wider collaboration 41
PREVENT: Preventing people from engaging in serious and organised crime 45
Pathways into Organised Crime 45
Prevent delivery 46
i. Deter people from becoming involved in serious and organised crime by raising awareness of the reality and consequences 46
Education 47
Reducing demand and improving reporting 47
Publicity about offenders and their crimes 47
Informing and alerting professionals 48
ii. Use interventions to stop people being drawn into different types of serious and organised crime 49
The Troubled Families Programme 49
The Ending Gang and Youth Violence Programme 50
Preventing Child Sexual Exploitation 50
iii. Develop techniques to deter people from continuing in serious and organised criminality 51
iv. Establish an effective offender management framework to support work on Pursue and Prevent 52
PROTECT: Increasing protection against serious and organised crime 53
i. Protect our borders from serious and organised crime 54
ii. Protect national and local government from serious and organised crime 54
iii. Improve protective security in the private sector by sharing intelligence and analysis on threats from serious and organised crime 55
iv. Protect people at risk of becoming the victims of serious and organised crime 58
Protecting children and blocking child abuse images 59
v. Improve our anti-corruption systems 59
vi. Strengthen systems for establishing identity so that serious and organised criminals are denied opportunities to exploit false or stolen personal data 62
PREPARE: Reducing the impact of serious and organised crime 65
i. Ensure that we have the necessary capabilities to respond to major serious and organised crime incidents 65
National Testing and Exercise Programme 66
ii. Provide the communities, victims and witnesses affected by serious and organised crime with effective criminal justice and other support 67
Victims and witnesses 68
Victims 68
Witnesses 69
Annex A. Accountability, governance and funding 71
Accountability and governance 71
Funding 71
Annex B. Departmental roles and responsibilities for tackling serious and organised crime 73