Bob Lauder

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• Bob Lauder
• Regional Director (Designate)
• Scotland and Northern Ireland

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Serious Organised Crime Agency

• What is its purpose?
• to reduce the harm caused to the UK by serious
  organised crime
• The work and actions of SOCA will focus on, and
  deliver against, reduction in that harm

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Serious Organised Crime Agency

• A Partner for the Future
• A new approach in the fight against Serious
  Organised Crime
• Fusion of four pre cursor law enforcement
  agencies
• An opportunity to harness effort in tackling all
  types of Serious Organised Crime
• including Trafficking in
• Class A Drugs

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Serious Organised Crime Agency

• The UK Threat Assessment identifies some of the
  main threats to the UK as
• Class A Drug Trafficking
• Organised Immigration Crime
• Money Laundering

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Serious Organised Crime Agency

• Trafficking of Class A Drugs within the UK in the
  main concerns
• Heroin
• Cocaine - Crack Cocaine
• MDMA (Ecstasy)

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Serious Organised Crime Agency

• How will SOCA impact on this issue?
• Develop skills in intelligence gathering
• Greater investment in overseas activity
• Providing more flexible enforcement strategies
• Acquire new and more innovative methods of
  removing profits from SOC

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Serious Organised Crime Agency

• What will SOCA bring to the future?
• Improved intelligence sharing, liaison, tasking
  and co-ordination with our partner agencies
• Overseas Liaison Europol, Eurojust, Interpol
• Community Impact Officers working with and in
  consultation with local forces

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Serious Organised Crime Agency

• SOCA activities will focus on
• Intelligence an intelligence led organisation
• Enforcement investigation of Serious Organised
  Criminals
• Intervention will have a pronounced impact on
  the removal of profit from Serious Organised
  Crime
• Partnerships support to law
• enforcement across the UK

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Serious Organised Crime Agency

• SOCA has ambitions to deliver by complementing
  the work already in progress and aspires to add
  innovation, expertise and resources in the fight
  against serious organised crime and the harm it
  imposes on our communities

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