Serious and Organised Crime in Scotland

Specialist Crime Division, Safer Communities

Inspector Alan Dron

Population of 5.3 of 5.3

million

Largest consumer of cocaine in world (per

head of population)

30,414 square square milesmiles

10.5 tonnes of heroin annually

Serious and Organised Crime in Scotland

Serious and Organised Crime in Scotland

Council's leader blows whistle on

"rife" expenses fraud

Police launch

Scottish

Borders

Council fraud

probe

South Lanarkshire Council discipline

nine workers

Man found guilty

of defrauding Council of£100,000

Woman reported

following council

fraud probe

Fraudsters con Scottish Council out of £270,000

Serious and Organised Crime in Scotland

…described him as a

violent loose cannon

…had his fingers

chopped off

Gangster 'tried to shield himself with

car manual from hail of bullets'

Men accused of murdering

financial adviser

Gang enforcer shot

dead …set to explode in terrifying wave of violence

Violent thug who slashed frail gran with machete, tortured man hours later

Serious and Organised Crime in Scotland

Perception

Motivation

Serious and Organised Crime in Scotland

Reality

• Involves more than one person

• Is organised, meaning that it involves control, planning and the use of specialist resources

• Causes, or has the potential to cause significant harm

• Involves benefit to the individual concerned, particularly financial gain

What is Serious Organised Crime?

Serious and Organised Crime in Scotland

Serious and Organised Crime in Scotland

• DIVERT – Individuals (particularly young people) from engaging in using the products of serious organised crime

• DISRUPT – The activities of SOCGs

• DETER – Serious Organised Crime by implementing measures to protect communities, businesses and the public sector

• DETECT – Boost capacity and improve co-ordination

Solutions – Evidence of Success

Interventions – Reducing Vulnerabilities

• Scottish Procurement Policy Note 2/2010 – Use of the Security Industry Authority Approved Contractors Scheme for Security Industry Services

• Local Authority Internal Audit -

potential and actual impact of Serious Organised Crime

Disruptions – Evidence of Success

• Removal of construction contracts • Closure of licensed premises + security companies • £1.5 million in lost revenue to major cosmetic importer and

distributor • Revocation of taxis licenses • Removal of contracts by public bodies • Instigation of legal proceedings for evasion of council tax and

non domestic business rates • Contravention of The Representation of the People Act 1983

(potential £5000 per year)

Interventions – Reducing Vulnerabilities

Serious and Organised Crime in Scotland

Millionaire with cocaine habit so bad his nose

collapsed is jailed

SCOTLAND’S DRUG SEIZURES DOUBLE

£220m drugs gang, who flooded Scotland with heroin + cocaine jailed for more than 60 years

‘This is a global problem affecting us all and we cannot simply arrest our way out of it’.

Opening speech by John Morton, Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the Department of Homeland Security, 14 September 2011

Serious and Organised Crime in Scotland

The Future

• Local Authority Serious Organised Crime SPoC’s

• Police Scotland LALO’s + PIP Departments

• Scottish Business Resilience Centre

Thank You

Tuesday 10 September 2013 • Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow

Inspector Alan Dron, Interventions