Structure

We currently employ around 3,700 full-time equivalent staff, who operate from almost 50 sites in the UK, as well as 40 overseas.

SOCA is divided into three core business groups: Strategy and Prevention, Operational Delivery and Capability and Service Delivery. Each group is led by an Executive Director and specialises in particular aspects of our work. In practice, staff from all of the groups come together in multi-disciplinary teams to tackle particular problems or undertake casework or other operational tasks.

The three business groups are:

Strategy and Prevention. This group will drive SOCA strategy, ensuring that this reflects government priorities while preserving the flexibility to deal with fast moving strategic challenges and opportunities. It will bring together those SOCA functions focussed on preventative activity with partners. It will include an enhanced Civil Recovery team delivering a more holistic approach to asset denial, including recovery, seizure and freezing. The strategic approaches defined by the Group will inform the Executive Tasking Group which will provide strategic direction to the Operational Delivery group on priorities for action.

Operational Delivery. This group will plan how and where the desired impact and response can be achieved, allocate the appropriate resources in the right combination and sequence to achieve the most effective impact, and execute the subsequent criminal justice and other disruptive interventions. It will include the majority of SOCA's deployable assets.

Capability and Service Delivery. This group is responsible for the continuing investment in, and development and delivery of essential organisational capabilities which cut across all business groups; together with service delivery and the management of relationships with service providers. It is led at operating level by the Chief Operating Officer whose role will embrace the functions of Finance Director and Chief Information Officer.

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