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How can you bring together 4 agencies and hope to retain operational effectiveness?? Answer: You can't. So, expect a lot of hot air from SOCA for the next couple of years whilst everyone gets trained to the same standard. Meanwhile the criminals will rub their hands at a welcome break.
@ Robert - trained up to the highest possible standard, or down to the lowest common denominator ?
Tony Blair appears to be taking the credit for launching SOCA at a Downing Street media event later on today Monday.
Will it be Charles Clarke or Hazel Blears get to share the platform with Tony Blair and Sir Stephen Lander ?
Will the media ask any hard questions this time, or will they simply regurgitate the Home Office and Downing Street press releases ?
Is spending only £400 million to combat the alleged £20 billion a year that Serious Organised Crime is alleged to cost the country each year the right amount ? (N.B. no actual statistics are available)
What happened to the National High Tech Crime Unit ? Is Computer Crime now a very low priority ?
Why is SOCA hiding from the public , with no easy means for the public to contact them with information ?
Tony Blair is hogging the breakfast TV news, outside of 10 Downing Street, with no sign of either Charles Clarke, Hazel Blears or Sir Stephen Lander.
Inevitably, firstly the Sky News and then the BBC journalists, who were all back in their breakfast TV news studios and not face to face with Tony Blair outside in Downing Street, have been spending at least half the time asking about the alleged rift with Gordon Brown and loans for peerages etc.
No mention of Computer Crime.
Even the BBC Radio 4 Today programme major interview slot billed as Home Secretary Charles Clarke talking about the launch SOCA spent literally only 2 or 3 minutes on SOCA, out of 13 minutes.
Neither Charles Clarke nor the interviewer bothered to spell out the full name of the Serious Organised Crime Agency, and just referred to it as SOCA.
No mention of Computer Crime.
Neither Tony Blair nor Charles Clarke seem to have been asked by the media, how come, if Human Trafficking is the top priority of SOCA after Class A drugs, that the United Kingdom has still not signed or ratified the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings which we should have done last May ?
Tony Blair's comments are reported almost verbatim by the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4870988.stm
So SOCA is going to financially hurt the "Mr Bigs"??? Unfortunately for SOCA, the "Mr Bigs" of this world are already way ahead of the game. Does Blair and Co think the big crime organisations are not already divesting and cloaking their assets to make any financial investigation into them so difficult and expensive as to render it counter productive???
Any financial damage inflicted will be minimal on their overall proceeds of crime.
The only way to hurt "Mr Big" is to deprive him of his liberty. Simple. Gathering evidence and getting convictions. But that's not "new".
Instead we'll get buckets of money wasted on chasing intelligence and money trails that lead nowhere.Meanwhile the organised criminals will continue and flourish as the inroads made previously by the separate agencies are diluted....
The NHTCU Confidentiality Charter appears to have been torn up by SOCA
http://www.computing.co.uk/itweek/news/2153704/british-fbi-drops
What is the point of re-branding the NHTCU as the e-Crime unit if they no longer speak with the public or businesses ?
If SOCA has existed as a "shadow organisation" in preparation for its launch, why do there seem to be such basic problems as reported by the Sunday Mirror ?
The Carroll Foundation Trust Criminal Case - Britain's Longest Running Largest Organised Criminal Conspiracy and Corruption Case - $ One Billion Dollars ( $ 1.000.000.000 ) Embezzlement of Funds Criminal Liquidation of Assets on a World Wide basis http://www.carrollfoundationtrust.org
- Primary Criminal Suspects -
- International Criminal Syndicate -
Richard Bray Solicitor / Ian Montrose Solicitor / MJ chappell J O'Shea HASLERS
A R Clarke HSBC / R Lane Smith DLA PIPER Solicitor / N Pike LG Solicitor