Serious and Organised Crime Conference 2023: Conference Report

Serious and organised crime poses an enduring threat to the UK, with a damaging impact on citizens, public services, businesses and infrastructure. The threat posed is complex and dynamic, with criminal activity evolving rapidly in a changing global environment. It is vital that the UK’s response is evidence-based and targeted at the most harmful dimensions of the threat – with law enforcement and the wider system supported in this effort by a range of external partners. To achieve this, the need to more fully exploit the potential for joint working across sectors – including practitioners, policymakers, academics and industry analysts – is recognised. To this end, on 4–5 December 2023, RUSI held its inaugural Serious and Organised Crime Conference, with the aim of supporting the National Crime Agency and system partners to consolidate a set of relationships with external academics, researchers and analysts on behalf of the wider system. This report summarises the discussions at the conference.