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<p>As stated in the Serious and Organised Crime Strategy, the Regional Organised Crime
Units (ROCUs) play a vital role in UK law enforcement’s response to serious and organised
crime. They are the principal link between the National Crime Agency (NCA) and police
forces in England and Wales. They also provide their forces with access to specialist
capabilities to tackle complex and high-harm serious and organised crime.</p><p>The
Government has been working with the NCA and partners across law enforcement to deliver
accurate and consistent disruptions based reporting on their collective effect against
serious and organised crime. This culminated in the production of NCA minimum standards
for assessing and reporting disruptions against serious and organised crime earlier
this year. Using these standards we are now better able to understand performance
across all parts of the system. In 2017/18, ROCU operations led to 2,052 recorded
disruptions in 2017/18, while their support to partners contributed to more than 2,675
further disruptions.</p><p>Going forward, the Government included in the published
Serious and Organised Crime Strategy (CM9718) a series of success measures relating
to the four overarching objectives that will be used to assess the impact of the new
strategy (see pages 37, 47, 51, 57, 60 and 61). The success measures will draw on
information that is published routinely within, for example, the National Crime Agency’s
(NCA) National Strategic Assessment of Serious and Organised Crime, HMICFRS PEEL effectiveness
assessments of police forces in England and Wales, and the annual departmental reports
for the Home Office and for the NCA</p>
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