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Gordon Meldrum QPM

Director Organised Crime

Command

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NCA mission

Leading the UK’s fight to cut serious

and organised crime

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• Four commands:

– Organised Crime Command (OCC)

– Border Policing Command (BPC)

– Economic Crime Command (ECC)

– Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command (CEOP)

NCA Structure

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NCA Structure continued

• Cross Cutting

- Intelligence Hub

- NCA coordination and tasking (NCAT)

- Pooled Operational resource

- National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU)

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How we operate

• Lead the operation

• Support our partners

• Coordinate the response

• In accordance with the new serious and

organised crime strategy

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• A 24/7 operational crime-fighting agency

• Increased visibility and transparency

• A broader remit in cutting serious and organised crime

• An Agency-wide culture focussed on our core values and

behaviours (public, organisation, individual)

• Independent operational direction and control

• Directed tasking – in extremis

How we are different

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What is Serious

Organised Crime?

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The National Crime Agency

Harm caused by SOC • Fraud costs the UK £52bn annually (2013)

• 372 children were victims of child trafficking in the UK

in 2012/13

• The Cabinet Office have estimated that cyber crime

costs the UK economy some £27billion per year

• Over £24bn – annual social and economic costs of OC

to the UK

• 7% - proportion of adult internet users that reported

hacking of personal data.

• 50% OCG’s impacting on UK involved in drug

trafficking and distribution

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The National Crime Agency

Serious Organised Crime

‘The Perception’

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Headlines

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The Sopranos

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The National Crime Agency

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Serious Organised Crime

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‘The Motivation’

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POWER & PROFIT

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The National Crime Agency

Serious Organised Crime

‘The Reality’

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The National Crime Agency

The Mapping Project

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The National Crime Agency

Serious Organised Crime is:

• Individuals / Groups / Networks

• Local to Global

• Complex and Sophisticated

• Forms, Reforms and Transforms

• Multiple Crime Types

• Power and Profit

• We need more than a law enforcement / criminal justice

response

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The National Crime Agency

A New Approach!

A Strategy for Tackling Serious Organised Crime

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Gordon Meldrum QPM

Director Organised Crime

Command