Regional Serious and Organised Crime Community Coordinator (SOC CC)
The SOC CC works across the entire Serious and Organised Crime (SOC) landscape as part of national network under the NPCC SOC Local Policing Portfolio from county lines drugs supply, to organised exploitation and immigration.
The SOC CC works in line with the Government’s Serious Organised Crime Strategy to drive and deliver a more coherent, consistent and connected response to SOC. They can inform and help deliver initiatives that tackle SOC at a local level in supporting both neighbourhood and specialist policing teams in partnership with other agencies and key stakeholders.
The SOC CC advises and supports regional forces at both a strategic and tactical level to enable them to understand their SOC threats and inform policy, procedures and activity across their areas that drives effective disruption of organised crime groups, priority individual and SOC vulnerabilities.
Advice and support
Our SOC CC is DI Andy Fox. Andy can:
- act as a tactical advisor who sits at a regional level and is connected to a national response/strategy
- provide the operational and intelligence link between the NCA and police forces which carry out the operational activity against SOC
- embed, advise and guide initiatives such as Clear Hold Build (CHB) to tackle SOC across the region
- promote a common understanding of SOC across policing and partners that informs a whole system approach to tackle known and emerging threats, working with others to create and deliver response plans
- create and deliver training and continuous professional development relating to SOC and Lead Responsible Officers (LROs)
4P plans
Andy leads on the continuous improvement of the delivery of a 4P response to tackling SOC at an operation level.
This includes the development of products such as 4P SOC Management Plans that provide structures and consistent approaches used across the region. The SOC CC helps establish a 4P plan; setting the objectives and identifying the resources and skills required to assist you with the delivery of your 4P plan.
Andy provides peer support to LROs, Plan Owners and Senior Investigating Officers (SIO) responsible for the 4P plans, provides access to wider SWROCU capabilities to engage a wider partnership response.
Services to LRO, Plan Owners, SIO and forces
The SOC CC supports, advises and develops LROs, Plan Owners, SIOs and forces across the region in dealing with SOC threats, by:
- facilitating the LRO and CHB Hydra training package and delivery of other training products
- coordinating the delivery of LRO/SIO support sessions
- identifying and sharing examples of best practice through the Regional SOC Working Group and oversight of the online Regional LRO Network
- facilitates multi-capability meetings to enhance the link between SWROCU and operational staff from across the region, under principles of ‘ask not task’
- provides advice and guidance for SOC Local Profiles, including how the forces can deliver their recommendations effectively
- cultivates relationships with law enforcement, wider partnerships and the community
LRO Support Sessions are available to all LROs across the region to book. Please read the Terms of Reference (TOR) for these sessions for further information.
Please note: these are not training sessions but are for LROs to book as individuals to discuss the management of an OCG or 4P plan.
Clear Hold Build
CHB is a three-phase operational framework designed to support police and partners sustainably reduce the totality of the serious and organised crime threat within communities. It provides forces, partners and communities with an integrated 4P partnership approach that delivers tactical options in a systematic, proportionate and targeted way.
CHB empowers the community and galvanises local capabilities to ‘claim back’ communities blighted by OCGs and build longer-term resilience and confidence to tackle future SOC threats. It brings together the very best of investigative capabilities, multi-agency disruption opportunities and community-based problem-solving skills.
The SOC CC leads on the regional response to the delivery of this place-based approach to tackling SOC in high harm locations across the South West.
Other services
The SOC CC:
- Leads on the development and delivery of a consistent regional approach to the application for ancillary orders and management of offenders subject to such orders, in particular Serious Crime Prevention Orders (SCPOs).
- Offers advice and guidance around HMICFRS inspection findings, supporting forces around continuous improvement and implementation of HMICFRS recommendations.
Reference area
SOC Threat 4P Management Plan template and guidance
Support Guide: Create a 4P Plan
Home Office LRO Guidance
LRO and CHB Hydra Awareness Information and FAQs
CHB briefing for senior and key stakeholders
Serious Crime Prevention Orders factsheet
Serious Crime Prevention Orders: a practitioner’s guide
Serious Crime Prevention Order Regional Process
Sanitised Serious Crime Prevention Order application
NPCC SOC Local Policing Framework
Examples of recent work
Clear Hold Build (CHB) Partnership Induction Event
The SOC CC supported Wiltshire Police with an event at the council offices in Chippenham.
Guest speakers from The Home Office, Merseyside Police and a local authority project manager from Yorkshire delivered a broad overview of CHB to the audience.
The event was a huge success which resulted, within days, in the agreement across the Swindon Community Safety Partnership of a CHB site in Swindon.
Delivery of CHB sites across the region
The SOC CC guided forces to deliver the foundations required to implement the CHB strategy across four areas in South West, informing strategic and tactical plans, and connecting partners and the community.
They have created products that enable senior and operational stakeholders to understand the process and inform multi-agency disruption activity across the 4Ps to reduce the impact of SOC and increase the community resilience to such threats.
The SOC CC connects all aspects of CHB together and supports both the SRO and LROs throughout the project – linking the national workstreams through the region and into local delivery.
The four sites are in Swindon, Cheltenham, Plymouth and Bournemouth.
Creation of the National Hydra Course
At the beginning of 2024, our SOC CC designed, developed and launched the a LRO/CHB Hydra Awareness package for LROs across the South West to understand SOC and be able to deliver the CHB framework. The two-day package has been endorsed by the NPCC and Home Office and will be rolled out across all 43 forces in England and Wales.
How to request services
Our Gateway, within the Regional Intelligence Unit, can also 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. Please 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.