Street Level Up Approach (SLUA) was originally piloted in 2004. It is an ACPO led initiative with support from partner agencies including SOCA. The concept of the SLUA model is to identify and build on collaborative ways of working with law enforcement partners and others, including health and education, based on shared knowledge, common interests and mutual support in order to achieve long term and sustained harm reduction from the UK drugs markets.

This is achieved by the identification of the supply of drugs to SLUA sites, building an intelligence picture of Organised Crime Groups (OCG’s) to enable a co-ordinated law enforcement and partnership approach through all levels of crime to disrupt that supply. The project then aims to develop models to measure impact and harm reduction.

By using a co-ordinated approach between level 1, 2 and 3 activity and Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) tactics the approach aims to disrupt, dismantle and destroy activities of Organised Crime Groups and take the profit out of drugs activity.

Police Forces/Agencies currently signed up to the project are Avon & Somerset, Devon & Cornwall, Dorset, South Wales, Sussex, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Wiltshire and SOCA.

Operation Reduction was established in November 2005 and aimed to tackle both the supply and demand associated with drugs in Brighton and Hove. This was to be achieved by increasing the number of drug users in treatment, increasing the level of drug seizures and the number of individuals charged with supplying controlled drugs. By targeting these issues it was also hoped that a reduction in levels and fear of crime and antisocial behaviour in hotspot areas could be achieved.

It is now nearly four years on and the operation has achieved its objectives, continues to be successful and has been involved as one of the pilot sites for the Street Level Up Approach because of its work around harm reduction and enforcement.

Operation Hanford commenced in early 2008 in response to community concerns and intelligence. It was a test purchase operation aimed at two separate locations in the Liverpool South and Liverpool North Borough Command Units.

The strategic objective was to identify and tackle those individuals who were controlling the drug markets, in line with the Street Level Up Approach. Two distinct Organised Crime Groups (OCG) were identified, who were both dismantled at the conclusion of the operation.

Operation Tennyson was launched as a parallel investigation targeting the OCG in Liverpool North. Whilst in Liverpool South level 1 undercover officers were deployed in support of the test purchase operatives to purchase increased quantities. Both operations concluded in the spring of 2009. In excess of 50 people were arrested and charged, 12 kilos of class A drugs were recovered, 6 firearms and 300 rounds of ammunition.

This presentation will identify the principles and working practices that underpin the development of Integrated Offender Management in Bristol.

It will deal with issues of governance, finance, targeting processes and operational practice.

50% of the cocaine traded on European streets arrives via West Africa. The international community is concerned but its response outside of conference rooms tends to be uncoordinated and piecemeal. If this situation continues we will lose control as we did in Central America. We still have time but not much of it. We must think and act together and we must respond regionally- business as usual is not an option.

This presentation will explain how the UK’s Control Strategy is configured to identify the threat from drugs and agree the UK’s response. It will outline some of the work being done by SOCA and its partners as part of that response.

Introduced by Simon Bray, Commander, Metropolitan Police Service

Jim McVeigh, Head of Substance Use, Reader in Substance Use Epidemiology, Centre for Public Health Research Directorate, Faculty of Health & Applied Social Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University

Kevin Haynes, Testing Manager, Drug-Free Sport, UK Sport (The National Anti Doping Organisation in the UK)

Introduced by Allan Gibson, Commander, Metropolitan Police Service

Zoe Adams, Detective Inspector, Metropolitan Police Service

Dr Daniel Silverstone, Principle Lecturer, Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth

Ian Wilson, Detective Superintendent, Strategic Lead, Bryan Dent, Drugs Co-ordinator, and Chris Rowley, Detective Chief Inspector, Crime Manager, West Yorkshire Police.

Nicola Singleton, Director of Policy & Research and Ben Lynam, Head of Communications, UK Drug Policy Commission (UKDPC)

Francisco Santos Calderón, Vice President of Colombia

Drew Harris, Assistant Chief Constable Crime Operations, Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)

Drew Harris, Assistant Chief Constable Crime Operations, Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)

Garry Clarke, Detective Chief Inspector, Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)

Patrick Byrne, Detective Superintendent, Garda National Drugs Unit

Tony Melville, Deputy Chief Constable, Devon and Cornwall Constabulary

Owen Rowland, Assistant Head of Unit, Home Office Drug Strategy Unit

Tristram Hicks, Detective Superintendent, Proceeds of Crime Act Implementation Team (PoCIT), Metropolitan Police Service

Mick Matthews, Assistant Chief Constable Operations, Gloucestershire Constabulary