WASTE CRIME TEAM Iain Brockie Unit Manager APSE Scotland 27 th Nov - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Scottish Environment Protection Agency WASTE CRIME TEAM Iain Brockie Unit Manager APSE Scotland 27 th Nov 2015 Waste Crime Team A Pilot Established February 2014 Deter Was 1 UM + 9 staff Tackle 2-3 major


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Scottish Environment Protection Agency WASTE CRIME TEAM

Iain Brockie Unit Manager APSE Scotland 27th Nov 2015

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Waste Crime Team – A Pilot

  • Established February

2014

  • Was 1 UM + 9 staff
  • Tackle 2-3 major

investigations

  • Complex investigations
  • Governance Group
  • versight
  • Serious and Serial
  • ffenders
  • Scottish Govt Let Our

Communities Flourish Strategy

  • Deter
  • Detect
  • Divert
  • Disrupt
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New Enforcement Tool

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Operation Greyhound

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What have we Delivered?

  • 9 Major

Investigations

  • Joint working with

Science, Legal and Operations

  • 20,000+ tonnes of

waste removed

  • 4 Companies

ceased operating

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Operation Dalmatian

  • 158 Actions
  • 85 Witness

Statements

  • 163 Productions

Seized

  • Fingerprint and DNA
  • Suspect ID photo

Books

  • 1 Company + 5

Individuals reported to PF, incl. Section 110 offences of hindrance

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Partnership Working/Innovation

  • Police Scotland
  • Scottish Police Authority – DNA and

Fingerprint examination – items left at scene.

  • DVSA/VOSA – Transport Enablers
  • HMRC – PAYE and Tax Credit issues
  • Environment Agency – cross border aspect
  • NIEA – Ferry terminals
  • EPA Ireland
  • An Garda Síochána
  • Dublin City Council
  • Scottish Prison Service - interviews
  • Local Authority – CCTV to monitor Sect 59
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Waste Crime – SEPA’s Response

  • Procurement Guidance
  • Life Smart
  • Landfill Tax – Revenue Scotland
  • Intelligence Development Officers
  • Financial Investigators
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Procurement Guidance

  • Joint work between SEPA and Zero Waste

Scotland

  • Best Practice and Guidance compiled
  • Aimed at protecting Public Sector Waste

contracts from criminal exploitation.

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EU Life Smart

  • Pan European partnership approach
  • Between key bodies involved in addressing

waste crime

  • Build intervention measures to tackle the

drivers for waste crime

  • Key Principles - Innovation and Collaboration
  • Design of real time problem solving platform
  • Allows collaborative analysis and assessment
  • f waste crime issues
  • Provides practical tools for investigators
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Summary

  • Approach is changing
  • More collaboration - More innovation
  • More proactive - Less reactive
  • Tackling Issues at source
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Questions?