Economic crime affects more UK citizens, more often, than any other criminal threat to our national security. It undermines the integrity of the UK economy, our global reputation as a global financial centre. Finances are integral to trade and investment, and the ease of doing business is vital for our prosperity. However, our open financial systems and strong economy continue to be exploited by those seeking to generate, move and invest criminal money, from street cash up to the proceeds of the highest levels of bribery and corruption. The National Economic Crime Command consists of three cross-functions that operate independently from one another: the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC), the United Kingdom Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU) and the Proceeds of Crime Centre (PoCC).
The NECC brings together law enforcement agencies, government departments, regulatory bodies and the private sector, with a shared objective of driving down economic crime in the UK. From targeting corrupt elites to tackling fraud, our work is high profile and focused on the highest harms to protect the most vulnerable.
NECC Business Areas
Illicit Finance Threat Team
The Illicit Finance Threat Team aims to be the cross-system hub for overseeing, directing and supporting the UK’s response to money laundering, bribery and corruption.
The teams purpose is to hold and mature a comprehensive understanding of the threat and the UK’s response, and use data and operational insight to design initiatives, partnerships, reporting and specialist services to end the era of the UK as a safe haven for illicit finance
Public Private Partnership Team
An established partnership between UK law enforcement, government and private sector, using NCA capabilities to innovate in sharing intelligence and data.
The ambition of NECC, is to become a genuine public private hub for combatting economic crime; bringing greater coherence to public private engagement and leverage capability from public and private partners to deliver on our ambition.
Optimise - We use all of our collective capabilities to prevent, identify and disrupt economic crime.
Economic Crime Plan - We respond to the highest harm threat and risks as they emerge.
Capabilities
Responsible for the leadership and development of the NECC Strategy and Business Management of the NECC. The teams cover a range of functions including Strategic Briefings, Business Planning, Workforce Planning, and Finance.
ORCA – (Operational Response Coordination and Allocation)
Drive operational outcomes across the system aligned to agreed Threat Lead priorities, utilising capabilities & capacity across the system to ensure high priority opportunities to reduce harm and protect the public are maximised.
The teams build & maintain exceptional working relationships with key operational partners across the system and leverage them to maximise delivery and understanding of threat.
Fraud
The Fraud Threat Lead team is at the heart of driving forward the UK Fraud Strategy to block fraud, pursue fraudsters and empower people to reduce the scale and harm of fraud.
We deliver the 4P projects and influence tasked activity to better understand the fraud threat. We work with stakeholders to ensure that the PURSUE system works effectively and implement system-level changes to improve operational delivery such as the establishment of a new national Fraud Targeting Cell. In addition, we support PREVENT strategies such as national media campaigns to increase fraud awareness and coordinate PROTECT initiatives to enhance the system response.
Proceeds of Crime Centre (PoCC)
The Proceeds of Crime Centre discharges the statutory responsibility of Director General NCA (Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (PoCA), P1 section 3) to provide for the training, accreditation and monitoring of Financial Investigators.
UK Financial Intelligence Unit
The UK Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU) has national responsibility for receiving, analysing and disseminating intelligence submitted through the Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) regime, to share with law enforcement agencies at home and internationally. The UKFIU sits at the heart of the regime, providing the gateway to reporters and a repository of data to inform law enforcement.
