Police Oracle - Organised Crime

Organised Crime

Showing Stories from 24th March 2022 to 6th July 2023

(06/07/23) Peers back 'Cross-Border People Smuggling Unit' within NCA (22/06/23) Scottish government issues exploitation guidance for frontline workers

SOC teams 'have stopped asking' for specialist support due to vacancies

(19/05/23) London region inspection finds that Trident officers have stopped asking for help and economic crime teams are being drawn into high risk missing person inquiries.

(06/03/23) Scotland's new scheme to protect children from OCGs (03/03/23) EMSOU "inadequate at tackling serious and organised crime" (07/02/23) GMP opens new Tactical Aid Unit base in Leigh (01/02/23) Case study: Merseyside's Clear, Hold, Build strategy (21/12/22) Generosity and compassion of modern slavery regime "being abused" (07/12/22) HMIC warns of "overexposure" of officers investigating SOC

Policing and private security: there's more than one way to skin a cat

(16/11/22) With access to intelligence, and a potential frontline view on organised crime and spiking former ACC Paul Fullwood tells Police Oracle the Security Industry Authority could provide an additional tool set when tackling crime.

(25/10/22) Investment in night vision kit puts RCT on even footing with offenders (13/10/22) County lines enforcement moving in positive direction, says NPCC lead (11/10/22) Albanian OCG dismantled thanks to joint Op with Spain (30/09/22) Reducing ATM ram-raids a 'force priority' for Cambridgeshire (29/09/22) 726 arrests under Merseyside's serious and organised crime Op (26/09/22) Home Office allocates £5m for victims of county lines (02/08/22) Forces welcome new court powers to tackle hare coursers (25/07/22) PSNI links OCG criminality to multiple keyless car thefts (22/07/22) Steve Jupp is new national police lead for serious organised crime (13/07/22) Nervousness about race "led to a reluctance to police parts of Wellington" (21/06/22) NCA seizes record £17.5m drugs haul at Channel Tunnel

Investigators: playing the long game with skills and training

(17/06/22) The Uplift is having a positive impact on building capacity to deal with serious and organised crime but the model for attracting officers to the regional units who do the work has changed.