Structure

We currently employ around 4,000 full-time equivalent staff, who operate from almost 50 sites in the UK, as well as 40 overseas.

SOCA is divided into four functional directorates. Each is led by an Executive Director and specialises in particular aspects of our work. In practice, staff from all of the directorates come together in multi-disciplinary teams to tackle particular problems or undertake casework or other operational tasks.

The four directorates are:

• Intelligence, which gathers and assesses information (from both overt and covert sources). It then uses it to produce the best understanding of organised crime and to support the agency’s operational work against organised crime targets. The directorate ensures that all activity is knowledge-led and directed towards agreed priorities, and that SOCA builds strong working relationships with other agencies, including other law enforcement partners.
  
  
• Enforcement, which provides a flexible operational response to threats. It builds high quality criminal cases against key targets and serious organised crime groups and uses new tools to undermine criminal businesses. It also provides a range of specialist support to the rest of SOCA and to our partners, for example in relation to kidnap, extortion and corruption threats.
  
  
• Intervention, which works to make life harder for organised criminals. Its particular focus is on attacking criminal assets and working with the private sector. It also houses the international arm of SOCA, which is a particularly important element of the business, because most of the organised crime threats affecting the UK originate overseas.
  
  
• Corporate Services, which supports and develops SOCA’s capabilities.

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