Calls for a new UK SOC strategy along with more funding for the NCA

29th September 2025Sarah Gibbons, Contributing Editor, Policing Insight

The latest report from the Social Market Foundation into the UK’s approach to tackling serious and organised crime (SOC) urges the Government to draw up a new strategy to meet the challenge of SOC, ensure the organised crime threat receives a higher priority, and increase resources and support for the National Crime Agency which currently performs poorly in comparison with FBI counterparts because of underfunding, reports Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons.

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Calls for a new UK SOC strategy along with more funding for the NCA

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