Serious Organised Crime Taskforce: progress report 2023

Communications

Communications and awareness-raising remain essential to delivering the safer, fairer, more prosperous Scotland, free from the harm caused by SOC, which we all want to see. People cannot protect themselves or their families from SOC if they don’t know how it operates. Organisations need to understand this in order to assess where they are most vulnerable.

A key priority of the SOC Taskforce Communications Subgroup is to increase media output on SOC-related activity. To maximise coverage and reach, the group use information from partners including:

• case studies;
• innovative ways to disrupt activity;
• information on arrests, prosecutions and convictions;
• asset recoveries;
• ministerial and partner statements;
• conferences and events; and
• CashBack projects.

The SOC Taskforce is active on X, formerly known as Twitter, as @SOCTaskforce and is the main means for the SOC Taskforce to communicate appropriate messaging to support the work of partners in delivering the ambition of the SOC Strategy.