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<p>Serious and organised crime affects more of us, more often, than any other national
security threat, persistently eroding our economy and our communities. It costs the
UK at least £37 billion every year. <br>The newly updated Serious and Organised Crime
Strategy, published on 1st November 2018, sets out how the Government will mobilise
the full force of the state and align the collective efforts of key partners from
the public, private and voluntary sectors to tackle serious and organised crime together
in one single approach.</p><p>We also continue to invest in the right capabilities
and tools for law enforcement, across Government and in partnership with the private
sector to tackle SOC effectively.</p><p>The cross-system approach is aligned to the
four strategy objectives: <br>o Relentless disruption and targeted action against
the highest harm serious and organised criminals and networks affecting the UK</p><p>o
Building the highest levels of defence and resilience in vulnerable people, communities,
businesses and systems</p><p>o Stopping the problem at source, identifying and supporting
those at risk of engaging in criminality</p><p>o Establishing a single, whole-system
response, aligning the efforts of all those involved in responding to serious and
organised crime as one, cohesive system.</p><p>The Government has already made some
early progress in implementing the Serious and Organised Crime Strategy. For example,
we have:<br>• established and expanded the new community coordinator programme pilot
areas in England and in Wales to promote community resilience and divert people away
from serious and organised crime; <br>• deployed a new cross-government overseas policy
specialists network to complement existing international law enforcement operational
work abroad;. <br>• established a National UK Protected Persons Services in the National
Crime Agency on 1st April 2019, through the transfer of England and Wales based Protected
Person Units, to ensure the best protection possible is available to individuals while
enhanc-ing judicial outcomes across the Criminal Justice Service. <br> <br>The Government
is determined to prevent serious and organised crime, defend against it, track down
perpetrators and bring them to justice. We will allow no safe space – online or offline
– for these people and their networks.</p>
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