Serious and Organised Crime Strategy Annual Report Published

23 Mar 2015 06:52 PM

The Home Secretary has yesterday published a report on the progress made in 2014 to implement the Government’s Serious and Organised Crime Strategy.

Serious and organised crime affects people, communities and businesses across the UK, which is why the Government launched a comprehensive cross-government Strategy and established the National Crime Agency in October 2013. The Strategy uses a proven framework – based on the four areas of Pursue, Prevent, Protect and Prepare – to tackle the threats we face. Significant developments since its publication include:

Minister for Modern Slavery and Organised Crime Karen Bradley said:

Serious and organised crime blights communities and impacts on national security.

This report demonstrates that the Government is prioritising the fight against serious and organised crime, and that the Strategy is making a difference.

After too many years in which organised criminal groups, their members and their associates have gone unpunished, we are sending the clearest possible message.

Whoever you are and wherever you are, if you’re involved in organised crime then we will come after you, we will find you, we will prosecute you.

The scale of the threat from serious and organised crime has been demonstrated by high profile cases of child sexual exploitation; growing use of cyber techniques by organised criminals to commit fraud and trade illegal drugs and firearms on the internet; and the spread of banking malware responsible for losses of hundreds of millions of pounds.