National Crime Agency Annual Report and Accounts 2016–17 National Crime Agency Annual Report and Accounts 2016–17
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National Crime Agency Annual Report and Accounts 2016–17 National Crime Agency Annual Report and Accounts 2016–17 Annual Report presented to Parliament pursuant to paragraph 8(2) of Schedule 2 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013. Accounts presented to the House of Commons pursuant to Section 6(4) of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000. Accounts presented to the House of Lords by Command of Her Majesty. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on 20 July 2017. HC 204 © Crown copyright 2017 This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. To view this licence, visit nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government- licence/version/3 or write to the Information Policy Team, The National Archives, Kew, London TW9 4DU, or email: [email protected]. Where we have identified any third party copyright information you will need to obtain permission from the copyright holders concerned. This publication is available at www.gov.uk/government/publications Any enquiries regarding this publication should be sent to us at NCA, Command Suite, Unit 1, Citadel Place, Tinworth Street, London SE11 5EF Print ISBN 9781474146210 Web ISBN 9781474146227 ID 05051709 07/17 Printed on paper containing 75% recycled fibre content minimum Printed in the UK by the Williams Lea Group on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office Contents Foreword by the Home Secretary 3 Part One – Performance Report 4 Statement by the Director General 4 Performance Report – 2016-2017 5 Introduction 6 Statement of purpose 6 Going concern statement 7 Overview 8 Vulnerability 8 Commodity 9 Prosperity 10 Performance Analysis 14 1. Understanding the threats 14 2. The Effectiveness of our response 15 3. Working with partners 17 4. Managing resources 21 Scotland 24 Northern Ireland 25 NCA output data for 2016-17 26 Sustainability Report 27 Part Two – Accountability Report 33 Corporate Governance Report 33 Directors’ report 33 Statement of the Accounting Officer’s responsibilities 34 The Governance Statement 35 Remuneration and Staff Report 50 Parliamentary accountability and audit report 62 Statement of Parliamentary Supply 62 Notes to the Statement of Parliamentary Supply 63 Remote contingent liabilities, losses and special payments 65 The Certificate and Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General to the Houses of Parliament 66 Annual Report and Accounts 2016–17 1 Part Three – Financial statements 68 Statement of comprehensive net expenditure 68 Statement of financial position 69 Statement of cash flow 70 Statement of changes to taxpayers’ equity 71 Notes to the accounts 72–89 Annex A – Core Tables 90 2 Annual Report and Accounts 2016–17 Foreword by the Home Secretary In my time as Home Secretary, I have been pleased to see an increased collaboration between the NCA and its policing partners, in particular the agency’s collaboration with counter-terrorism (CT) policing. The operational successes in this area have considerably enhanced the intelligence picture of the firearms threat and helped to keep the public safe. Operation Dragonroot alone, a month-long joint NCA and CT Policing operation, resulted in the seizure of 642 substantiated firearms and the arrest of 282 suspects. Since the National Crime Agency (NCA) was created in 2013, the variety, scale and Organised criminal groups are quick to impact of the serious and organised crime modernise and the NCA must keep pace. threat has evolved. We have seen a rise in The agency must respond to the impact of reports of child sexual exploitation and new technology – for example, encrypted abuse; a number of cyber-attacks that defy communications, the dark web market place, borders and jurisdictions; and situations in and drones – whilst delivering operational the Mediterranean and Calais where results. It is vital that government and organised criminal groups have exploited policing, led by the NCA, collectively raise vulnerable humans. our game and continue to develop a shared understanding of the threats we face, build Now more than ever, it is essential that the shared capabilities, and act in concert NCA is a powerful crime fighting body with against criminals. This is the only way we the right capabilities, powers, structure and will succeed in making the UK a truly international reach to respond to this hostile environment for serious and dynamic threat. organised crime. The NCA has made significant strategic advancements in the last year. The agency’s collaboration with the new National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and cyber specialist officers across UK policing, has helped to prevent several cyber incidents. The Joint The Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP Financial Analysis Centre (JFAC), that was Home Secretary set up in response to the Panama Papers data leak, has established itself as a key part of the UK’s anti-money laundering system. Last year also marked the International Corruption Unit’s (ICU) first full year of operation, during which it conducted significant investigations and restrained around £170m. International cooperation is vital in securing a response to the threat of bribery and corruption. Annual Report and Accounts 2016–17 3 Part One – Performance Report Statement by the Director General In this financial year we have organised the threats into three broad areas: Prosperity – including cyber and financial crime; Vulnerability – including child sexual exploitation and abuse, modern slavery and human trafficking and organised immigration crime; and Commodity – including firearms and drugs. There is no greater mission for a law This approach allows us to improve our enforcement officer than to protect the public understanding of the intelligence linkages and it is with great pride that I publish the and focus our response. The report details National Crime Agency’s annual report for our progress in understanding the 2016-17. intelligence picture, ensuring relentless investigation and in building new The dedication and commitment of our capabilities to protect the public and bring officers, and the many partners we work offenders to justice. alongside, is reflected in our operational achievements, some of which are set out in Our transformation of the organisation, this report. The public in the UK and abroad alongside partners, must continue and I have are safer as a result of our efforts. been delighted to welcome new members to our Board to assist in this focus. We have We are not complacent, however; the nature also established an Independent Reference of serious and organised crime evolves, as Group, comprising members of the public do the tactics deployed by criminals and we who provide advice to the Board, assisting us must keep pace. With the developments in in our consideration of public consent for the technology, serious and organised crime is exercise of our powers and responsibilities. increasingly global with victims and offenders often not connected by proximity. Organised We lead the fight to cut serious and crime has the ability to reach into and impact organised crime with determination and all communities, often affecting the most focus and I commend the work of the vulnerable in our society. This requires the National Crime Agency to you. continuing evolution of the British policing model. Lynne Owens CBE QPM MA Director General Date: 7 July 2017 4 Annual Report and Accounts 2016–17 Performance Report Report – 2016-2017 – 2016-2017 95% 1738 conviction rate disruptions against groups, on NCA cases in UK courts individuals, threats or vulnerabilities £28.3m 1441 1176 assets arrests arrests recovered in the UK overseas £82.8m assets denied as a result of NCA activity to criminals via restraint, assets frozen and cash seized 89.5 tonnes of Class A drugs seized a further 58 tonnes of Class B 599 1896 firearms children seized safeguarded or protected 528 as a result of of these were guns NCA activity 2906430 NCA Infographic_3rd.indd 1 Annual Report and Accounts 2016–17 07/07/20175 12:45 Introduction The National Crime Agency (NCA) is tackling those threats that require a global responsible for protecting the UK’s response, such as cyber crime, the security communities from the effects of serious and of borders, international corruption and use organised crime. of the dark web. This is our fourth annual report, and it sets out how we have worked to keep the public Statement of purpose safe over the past year. The Director General has operational Our highest priority, as set out by the independence, and is accountable to the Government’s Serious and Organised Crime Home Secretary and through the Home Strategy, is to identify and disrupt serious Secretary to Parliament. The agency is also and organised crime by investigating and subject to scrutiny by the Scottish Parliament securing the prosecution of those and the Northern Ireland Assembly. responsible. The NCA is a non-ministerial department, We tackle the criminal groups who exploit funded directly by Parliament via the supply the vulnerable through modern slavery and estimate. We also receive funding for human trafficking, organised immigration ring-fenced projects from other government crime, or by making and distributing departments, and contributions from the indecent images of children. Scottish Government and the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Our work to disrupt and seize money from organised criminals impacts on their ability The Home Secretary sets the NCA’s strategic to continue to undertake their illegal activity. priorities. Within that framework, the Director General sets the NCA’s operational By ensuring that the most serious and priorities. These two sets of priorities inform dangerous offenders serve custodial the ways in which we lead, support and sentences and seizing illicit commodities coordinate operational activity under the such as firearms, we help to remove those National Control Strategy aligned to the threats to society. Government’s Serious and Organised Crime Strategy.