SOCA Alerts – protecting your business
Our Alerts are targeted at specific organisations and sectors, based on their need or ability to act on the information provided. We work closely with regulators, trade associations and other industry bodies in providing Alert information to a target audience. This is circulated as widely as possible to help protect UK businesses and the public, and to deny opportunities to organised criminals. However, much of the information is sensitive and goes to named individuals or companies only.
The Alerts department is therefore unable to respond directly to individual requests for information.
Some SOCA Alerts indicate specific threats and may require immediate action. Others are designed to raise awareness or complement existing knowledge of a threat or new criminal technique.
This information helps to manage risks and to review or improve business processes or procedures. It can cover any subject linked to serious organised crime, from fraud and financial matters, illegal immigration, or identity takeover, through to construction, transport and communications.
How SOCA helps your business
By working with other law enforcement partners and building on our own knowledge and expertise, SOCA has:
- helped protect the UK’s national communications infrastructure;
- reinforced the integrity of the UK’s e-commerce;
- helped protect consumers from the risk of identity theft and fraud;
- provided details for business on how to detect and disrupt specific criminal threats;
- offered best practice guidance on identifying staff corruption and other risks within industry; and
- established a national network of trusted contacts that are in regular communication with SOCA.
Partners in combating crime
We recognise the value of our relationships with our partners for tackling organised crime. It’s through these links between the public and private sectors that the UK will become more resilient to attack from criminals both here and abroad.
We work in conjunction with many organisations and government departments. This link will take you to sites that carry useful information for the general public in addition to advice for large and small businesses.
If you are involved in the financial sector or believe that your business is required to report under the Proceeds of Crime Act, you might also want to look at the UK Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU) pages
If your business involves chemicals, have a look at the Chemical Suspicious Activity Report pages