On 1 April 2006, 1,821 SOCA officers were designated with the power of arrest. Since then an additional 27 SOCA officers have been designated with the power of arrest. SOCA also has a number of officers seconded from other agencies and of these 168 are designated with the power of arrest.
For the period April to September 2006, 358 people were arrested as a result of UK based enforcement activity on SOCA operations. This figure includes both arrests by SOCA officers and arrests by other agencies on behalf of SOCA.
The information requested is in the following table.
Nature of Offence Number of individuals charged1 Drugs trafficking 240 Illegal immigration 68 Money laundering 24 Fraud 1 Firearms trafficking 3 Counterfeit Currency 1 Identity Cards 3 Total 3401 1 The total is greater than 316 because some individuals were charged with more than one offence.