Abstract
Executive Summary
This White Paper summarises the Senior Leaders’ Roundtable on Serious and Organised Crime (SOC), held on 30 April 2025 as part of the 2nd Annual NPCC SOC Local Conference at the University of Huddersfield. The closed session brought together UK and international policing leaders, policy officials, and academics to explore the future of SOC policing and reaffirm intelligence as the central driver of effective disruption and prevention.
Purpose of this Report
Record key discussion points and leadership perspectives from the roundtable.
Highlight emerging SOC threats, intelligence blind spots, and collaboration barriers and challenges faced across law enforcement and partner agencies.
Provide a strategic roadmap for embedding intelligence-led approaches over the next five years.
Structure of the Report
Event Overview: Context, aims, and outputs of the session.
Chairs, Facilitators & Attendees: Leadership and representation.
Round Table Structure: Format, framing questions, and engagement process.
Themes & Key Insights:
Theme 1: Emerging threats – AI-enabled crime, green energy exploitation, fraud, prison corruption, and increasing adaptability of organised crime groups.
Theme 2: Blind spots – Intelligence ownership issues, skills gaps, political interference, and lack of access to private sector data.
Theme 3: Collaboration barriers – Red tape, platform disruption challenges, trust deficits, and slow international coordination.
Strategic Recommendations: Four priorities to reposition intelligence as the engine of SOC strategy, focusing on culture, skills, data sharing, and harm-led metrics.
Next Steps & Conclusion: Clear short-term and long-term actions to build a future-ready, intelligence-first model for SOC policing.
Key Messages
Intelligence remains undervalued, under-resourced, and inconsistently governed across policing.
SOC threats are evolving rapidly, demanding smarter, faster, and more collaborative approaches.
A shift to threat and vulnerability focused, intelligence-led policing
This White Paper summarises the Senior Leaders’ Roundtable on Serious and Organised Crime (SOC), held on 30 April 2025 as part of the 2nd Annual NPCC SOC Local Conference at the University of Huddersfield. The closed session brought together UK and international policing leaders, policy officials, and academics to explore the future of SOC policing and reaffirm intelligence as the central driver of effective disruption and prevention.
Purpose of this Report
Record key discussion points and leadership perspectives from the roundtable.
Highlight emerging SOC threats, intelligence blind spots, and collaboration barriers and challenges faced across law enforcement and partner agencies.
Provide a strategic roadmap for embedding intelligence-led approaches over the next five years.
Structure of the Report
Event Overview: Context, aims, and outputs of the session.
Chairs, Facilitators & Attendees: Leadership and representation.
Round Table Structure: Format, framing questions, and engagement process.
Themes & Key Insights:
Theme 1: Emerging threats – AI-enabled crime, green energy exploitation, fraud, prison corruption, and increasing adaptability of organised crime groups.
Theme 2: Blind spots – Intelligence ownership issues, skills gaps, political interference, and lack of access to private sector data.
Theme 3: Collaboration barriers – Red tape, platform disruption challenges, trust deficits, and slow international coordination.
Strategic Recommendations: Four priorities to reposition intelligence as the engine of SOC strategy, focusing on culture, skills, data sharing, and harm-led metrics.
Next Steps & Conclusion: Clear short-term and long-term actions to build a future-ready, intelligence-first model for SOC policing.
Key Messages
Intelligence remains undervalued, under-resourced, and inconsistently governed across policing.
SOC threats are evolving rapidly, demanding smarter, faster, and more collaborative approaches.
A shift to threat and vulnerability focused, intelligence-led policing
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 23 |
| Publication status | Unpublished - 1 Dec 2025 |
| Event | NPCC SOC Local Conference - Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom Duration: 17 Apr 2025 → 17 Apr 2026 |
