Disrupting Organised Crime Groups

From the Ground Up

Colleen Martin

Assistant Director, Supporting Communities

Context and Perspective

Liverpool City Region

– 6 local authorities, 2 police forces

– 130 identifiable OCGs varying levels of activity

– 2600 plus OCG nominals – 150+ high risk

– Challenge to map female involvement

Liverpool

– Approx. 65 OCGs

– Four priority areas (was five)

– X% of ‘Troubled Families’ have OCG links

– Liverpool OCG activity affects almost every Force in the country

– 22% of OCG nominals are part of a ‘troubled family’

• Stronger Communities

• Avoiding the Void

• Ounce of Prevention - Pound of Cure

• Engaging The Unusual Suspects

Meeting the Challenge

Detailed Problem Profile

• Extremely high levels of deprivation

• High child poverty levels

• Worklessness is high and in some areas of

the boundary 40% of all

working age adults are workless.

• Over half of the properties in the Norris

Green ward are owned by

Registered Social Landlords

• The area has the second highest number of

young people classed as NEET in Liverpool

• The rate of troubled individuals higher than

Liverpool

Stronger Communities – Norris Green

• Quarterly DISARM of local partner officers and voluntary sector

• Problem Solving Group and Work Programme

• Task and Finish Groups (DV and hate crime)

• Additional resources targeted in area

• Local Intervention Team – 11 families

• Critical Incident Guidance

• Communication with Community

Engaging Community and Building Confidence

Picture 18 months on

• Violence with Injury rate now

lower than Liverpool rate (more

serious reduced by 1/3)

• Gun crime rate now level with

Liverpool

• Reduction of 78% Firearms

Discharges

• Lower rate of drugs offences than

Liverpool

• No longer DV hotspot

• Reduction in NEET numbers

“We’ve reclaimed Norris Green”

Baseline Position

Higher rates than Liverpool for:

• violence with injury

• gun crime

• Firearms discharges

• drugs offences

• Hotspot area for domestic violence

and offences increasing

Op Camaro, Lancia, Scarva…

• Targeting the Gang’s

hierarchy, from those at the

top to street level dealing

• 45 people convicted which

targeted serious and

organised crime in the

Toxteth area

• Scarva – Anfield/Everton –

131 years sentenced

Avoiding the Void

• Detached youth work organised for post

operation period

• Community Action Days rolling programme

• Community Info Slips

• Closure Orders for Premises

• Landlord Licensing Enforcement

• Evictions of OCG nominals by Registered

Providers

• Dispersal Zones/PSPOs

• Building Trust and Relationships between

partners and with community

Stopping the Hydra

Ounce of Prevention Pound of Cure

Family Engagement and Breadth of Offer

Working at a City Region Level enables a different approach, sharing good

practice and a wider range of partners:

• Environment Agency – OCG Waste Disposal and Involvement in

Community Action

• Royal Navy – Youth Engagement Offer

• UK Visa and Immigration

• Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority

• DWP

• CPS

• Titan/GAIN

The Unusual Suspects

• Operation Haggrid

• Targeting at the Appropriate Level

• Child Exploitation – Offender Targeting

• Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking

• Joint Commissioning

• GANGS – Get Away n Get Safe

• Campaigns and messaging

• Plays

Singing from the Same Hymn Sheet & Maximising

Resources