The new UK Prevent strategy on organised crime shifts away from a responsive law enforcement approach – but the domestic focus is still a missed opportunity, it’s claimed.
This month the Home Office Strategic Centre for Organised Crime released its Prevent guide ‘Individuals at risk of being drawn into Serious and Organised Crime’. Adopting the ‘4P strategy’ (Prevent, Pursue, Protect, Prepare) that has been largely successful in counter-terrorism, it provides an innovative approach to organised crime, writes Sasha Jesperson, Research Analyst at the Whitehall-based defence and security think tank RUSI (Royal United Services Institute).
For the article in full, visit the RUSI website – https://www.rusi.org/analysis.
And Charlie Edwards, Director National Security and Resilience, argues that cuts and the lack of funding to tackle key areas of organised crime is a major concern. Experienced law enforcement practitioners continue to leave in droves – many for better paid jobs in the financial services sector – one unintended consequence of government making financial crime a necessary priority in their strategy, he writes. And organised crime is growing. For his article visit RUSI.org.
