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Operation Voicer: Comms data in action
New Foreign National Offender team to support Operation Trivium
Spotlight on the support available to law enforcement from the Specialist
Operations Centre
New accreditation expands access to Suspicious Activity Reports
Sharing new approaches to tackling Child Sexual Exploitation
Did you know? Interesting facts about the Serious Crime Analysis Section
NCA in the headlines
Latest NCA jobs
Operation Voicer: Comms data in action
Communications data is a valuable investigative tool for law enforcement, as
highlighted by a recent NCA led investigation in to live streaming of child sexual
abuse. The NCA's Regional Operations Manager, Ian Glover, describes the
operation.
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New Foreign National Offender team to
support Operation Trivium
The NCA's Organised Crime Command has recently created a new desk team to
tackle organised crime activity by foreign national offenders (FNOs) - one of the
NCA’s priority threat areas. In November, this new team will join staff from other
areas of the NCA to enhance our ongoing support to Operation Trivium 5, a national
police led operation.
Operation Trivium aims to tackle FNO’s who commit crimes and use the UK’s road
network to facilitate their criminality. Operation Trivium is a true multi-agency
operation that brings together UK police forces, law enforcement agencies and
European policing partners working together to focus on this area of criminality. The
NCA’s support will include dedicated staff at the UK European Operations
Coordination Centre based in Birmingham, and specific operational activity
throughout the week. This multi-agency approach has proven to be a successful means to tackle FNO’s
and the last operation resulted in 550 checks on NCA systems, the arrest of 3 FNO’s
by NCA officers for European Arrest Warrants. Nationally, 9000 vehicles were
stopped, 8000 enforcement action undertaken and 852 arrests made. NCA West Midlands Regional Operations officer Rick Ward, who took part in Trivium
4 said, “This collaborative working between all agencies has ensured the best use of
legislation and tactics to target organised crime activity by FNO's in the UK and we
are very much looking forward to supporting this operation again and achieving some
great outcomes.” Share
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NCA’s Specialist Operations Centre offers
a range of specialist support to law
enforcement partners
The NCA’s Specialist Operations Centre (SOC) is made up of a mixture of police and
NCA officers and brings together a range of diverse capabilities which can be used to
back up operations.
SOC’s Specialist Research team has an array of national guidance at its disposal. Its
Witness Intermediary team supports police officers and prosecutors in the use of
registered intermediaries when interviewing vulnerable individuals, while the
National Injuries Database provides a library of wounds and their causes which may
prove useful when conducting investigations. The Crime Advice team is available to
give advice on major crime investigations, for example earlier this year it provided
highly-valued support to Avon and Somerset Police’s investigation into the
disappearance and murder of teenager Becky Watts.
The SOC also works very closely with and provides access to the Crime Operational
Support (COS) unit. These Senior Investigating Officer-led teams include specialist
advisers in areas such as geographical profiling, family liaison, data comms,
interviewing processes and witness assistance.
Frank Glen, Head of SOC says, “Essentially SOC is able to provide several levels of
service – ranging from sharing knowledge and best practice to facilitating the
deployment of COS boots on the ground. When a job comes in we agree a priority,
and the relevant team takes it from there.”
“We have been busy here since we became a unit within the National Policing
Improvement Agency in 2006 and have since supported law enforcement partners on
over 87,000 separate occasions. I’m pleased with our performance – in nearly all
cases we have completed the job in the timescales agreed.”
To request assistance from SOC you can contact the team on 0845 000 5463 or
email [email protected] (pnn users only).
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New accreditation on offer to expand
access to Suspicious Activity Reports
A new accreditation called the Financial Intelligence Administrator (FIA) has been
developed by the NCA’s UK Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU). The role is intended to develop users’ skills around the use of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and to
exploit the information more widely.
The accreditation comes following feedback from law enforcement colleagues that
access to SARs would provide a beneficial source of intelligence for officers who are
not necessarily Financial Investigators (FIs), Accredited Financial Investigators
(AFIs) or Financial Intelligence Officers (FIOs).
The new FIA role will be a nationally recognised accreditation and those who gain
FIA status will be able to use SARs material for intelligence purposes only (i.e.,
research and analysis or intelligence development).
To become an FIA individuals will need to:
complete the National Centre for Applied Learning Technologies (NCALT)
SARs Confidentiality e-learning package;
familiarise themselves with Home Office Circular 022/2015: ‘Money
laundering: the confidentiality and sensitivity of SARs and the identity of those
who make them’;
complete the FIA pre-read and successfully pass the FIA exam – access is
provided to the Financial Investigation Specialist Skills (FISS) database for
this, and
sign the NCA Individual User Agreement for direct access to SARs. If already
signed, users just need to be aware of and accept the addendum.
For more information email the UKFIU [email protected] Share
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Sharing new approaches to tackling Child
Sexual Exploitation
Intelligence gaps often pose significant challenges to tackling the issue of Child
Sexual Exploitation (CSE). In the London Borough of Croydon, after identifying a
high volume of missing reports for young people (a known indicator of vulnerability to
CSE), a strategic, multi-agency response was developed to improve the local
intelligence picture. With specialist support from the NCA’s Missing Children team,
the Metropolitan Police Service and Croydon Council’s Children’s Social Care jointly
launched Operation Raptor to achieve this.
The operation brought together intelligence held by the police and local authority for
the first time and developed a methodology to collate the intelligence to inform
understanding of the local CSE profile. This was used to drive innovative multiagency responses to disrupt CSE and safeguard those at risk, e.g. the
implementation of regular police led community engagement to disrupt CSE activity
in ‘hotspots’ identified through the shared intelligence.
A report has been produced to share the learning from Operation Raptor and to
support other agencies in adopting this approach to tackling CSE. To learn more
about the Operation Raptor approach email the Missing Children team
[email protected]
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UK internet users potential victims of
serious cyber attack
Malware strain used to steal millions from
bank accounts
Rifles and automatic weapons seized
Seven charged following an NCA operation
in which 22 assault rifles and 9 Skorpion
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The NCA is at the forefront of the UK’s
fight against a wide-range of serous crime
threats, such as human trafficking, child
sexual exploitation, firearms, drugs and
cyber crime. As an NCA officer you can
make a difference.
We are currently recruiting for a range of
different roles, including:
machine guns seized.
Urban drug gangs target coastal
communities
A new report has found that over 180
urban drug-dealing gangs have expanded
their activity into rural and coastal towns,
pushing out local dealers or targeting the
‘space’ left by law enforcement action.
Child Protection Advisors within the
CEOP Command,
an Intelligence Team Leader,
experienced Digital Forensics
Officers,
a Financial Investigation Manager,
an Intranet Manager, and
an Investigations and Intelligence
Officer.
Further information about these roles and
how to apply is available on our website.
Got an idea for a story or initiative to feature in NCA News? We want to highlight great
examples of partnership working, if you have any suggestions for suitable stories or would
like to submit a contribution please email [email protected].
We are also interested in receiving your comments and views more generally about NCA
News, so please do get in contact and share your feedback.
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