Organised Immigration Crime Taskforce (OICDT)

The Organised Immigration Crime Taskforce (OICDT) is a national policing programme that coheres law enforcement agencies across the UK to tackle Organised Immigration Crime (OIC). Working collaboratively with police forces, the Home Office, NCA and other key stakeholders the programme strengthens the response in tackling criminal networks who exploit the vulnerable, profit from organised crime and undermine UK border security.

The programme is led by Deputy Chief Constable, Wendy Gunney, who is the National Police Chiefs’ Council Lead for Serious Organised Crime.

How we will do this?

Through a clear, structured plan, our ‘Plan on a Page’, which brings together activity across the UK using the 4P approach:

Partners

We work with partners from across law enforcement agencies to strengthen the police response to OIC. This includes Home Office agencies, the Border Security Command (BSC),and the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC).

Within the changing global demographics and emerging challenges to policing, OIC has been recognised as a national ‘high priority’ threat. This has led to an increased focus on strategic and operational responses from police forces across the UK.

OIC can be broken down into three key threat areas namely:

1. Assisting or facilitating illegal entry or arrival into the UK, or exit from the UK to an EU member state by vehicle, maritime vessel, or aircraft.
2. Producing or distributing fraudulent or fraudulently obtained identification documents e.g., passports, visas etc., to support illegal entry and remaining in the UK. This includes falsely obtaining and distributing genuine documents.
3. The abuse of legitimate means to enter/arrive or remain in the UK including illegal working and marriage abuse. Recently changed to ‘Criminal abuse of the immigration system’.