Regional Modern Slavery and Organised Immigration Crime Coordinator
The Regional Modern Slavery and Organised Immigration Crime Coordinator will help you improve your response to threats by providing expertise, advice and support in line with the national vulnerability plan.
What is organised immigration crime?
Our services
The Regional Modern Slavery and Organised Immigration Crime Coordinator can:
- support SPOCs, SIOs and investigators across the region to improve investigations and overcome barriers to prosecution
- drive coordination of Level One and Two operational activities in England and Wales, ensuring intelligence-sharing across regions
- help forces identify, assess, share, and escalate specific risk areas
- work with vulnerability analysts to identify threats and trends across forces, and highlight opportunities and best practice to the national coordination units, regions, and forces
- provide expertise on vulnerability threats and deliver on any national requirements fed from the Home Office delivery programmes for vulnerability
- support partnership working to identify, investigate, disrupt and prosecute modern slavery cases, and champion anti-slavery partnerships
- work with investigators to provide access to networks of support or experience that can help with specific issues relating to offences relating to vulnerability offences
- improve victim assessment, management and multi-agency support by identifying opportunities for partnership engagement
- give expert advice on the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and the National Referral Mechanism (NRM)
- support forces in the collection of PND data on modern slavery investigations, to manage risk and assist coordination across law enforcement agencies
- drive investigation debriefings across the region, to gather lessons learnt and develop the evidence base for operational best practice
Who can use the services?
- Regional forces
- Forces nationally
- National ROCU network
- Law enforcement partner agencies
- Support service partners
We can offer initial advice on how our capabilities and other partners may be able to assist your investigation. Bids for capabilities then need to be taken to your Force Tasking meeting.
Recent work
Developing forces’ understanding of organised immigration crime
Undertakes national peer reviews to bring forces in line with standards and identify development opportunities.
Coordinating wider national investigations
Op Gemstone coordinates a proactive organised immigration crime operation on the South Coast – from Kent to Poole.
Working with SEROCU, regional forces, partner agencies and involving other SWROCU capabilities.
Training student officers in modern slavery and human trafficking
Provided modern slavery and human trafficking awareness training to student officers.
Coordinated multi-agency partnership support
Coordinated partnership support for visa abuse and trafficking investigations through NCA international liaison officers and the immigration casework team.
Force benchmark reviews and best practice
Conducted benchmark reviews with forces in key areas, such as governance, intelligence, investigations, victims, and training.
Also provided best practice support and guidance from a number of internal and external resources.
How to request services
Our Gateway, within the Regional Intelligence Unit, can provide more information about this service:
- by phone – 01278 647 299
- email – swrocugateway@avonandsomerset.police.uk
The Regional Intelligence Unit is available:
- Monday to Friday 08:00 – 22:00
- Weekends 08:00 – 16:30
For complex or resource-intensive requests, or requests for sensitive tactics, you will be asked to complete the BID Capability Form. Refer to the Tasking Procedural Guidance about this process.
For urgent, out-of-hours enquires, call 01278 647 299 and the number will divert to the on-call SWROCU officer.