Serious and Organised Crime Group

The Serious and Organised Crime Command (SCD7) is a unit of the Metropolitan Police. It is part of the Specialist Crime Directorate and is divided into 10 units:^[1]

• Kidnap Unit - provides fast responses to life threatening crimes in action, for example extortion, blackmail or kidnap for ransom where the hostage has not been recovered.

• Project Team - conducts operations against organised crime, (cross-London, national or international) at National Intelligence Model levels 2-3. This includes proactive contracts to kill, major drugs suppliers, multi-dimensional crime groups, including ethnically composed gangs, and large-scale firearms trafficking.

• Branch Intelligence Unit - provides intelligence for the Serious and Organised Crime Group

• Flying Squad - investigates robberies (whether armed or not) of cash in transit companies, building societies, betting offices, post offices, jewellers, casinos and banks. They also investigate all robberies at commercial premises where a firearm is produced or intimated.

• Hostage and Crisis Negotiation Unit - provides negotiators for all hostage situations, and delivers Hostage and Crisis Negotiation training nationally and internationally.

• Central Task Force - investigates class A drug dealers, firearms traffickers and any other criminal group impacting on two or more London Boroughs, particularly criminal networks.

• Middle Market Drugs Partnership - a joint partnership between the Serious and Organised Crime Group and Serious Organised Crime Agency. Investigates class A drug supply in London within minimum levels of 1/2kg of heroin or 1kg of cocaine, or where an operation will exceed 8 weeks.

• Cultural and Communities Research Unit - provides 24-hour support with immediate access to staff of the Met Police that have a broad range of life skills, such as knowledge of a community, language, culture, religion, trade or hobby.

• Operation Grafton - investigates criminal networks linked to crime with a value over £10,000 in and around Heathrow Airport, including networks operating across force boundaries.

• Specialist Intelligence Service - provides intelligence for the Project Teams.

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