The SOCA Board has determined five generic priorities to guide SOCA's business, as follows.

1. To build knowledge and understanding of serious organised crime, the harm it causes, and of the effectiveness of different responses.
2. To increase the amount of criminal assets recovered and increase the proportion of cases in which the proceeds of crime are pursued.
3. To increase the risk to serious organised criminals operating in the UK, through proven investigation capabilities and in new ways.
4. To collaborate with partners in the UK and internationally to maximise efforts to reduce harm.
5. To provide agreed levels of high quality support to SOCA's operational partners and, as appropriate, seek their support in return.

The SOCA Board has determined that SOCA should aim to apportion its operational effort broadly as follows against the main threat sectors:

• drugs trafficking, primarily Class A - 40%
• organised immigration crime - 25%
• individual & private sector fraud - 10%
• other organised crime - 15%

Much of this effort will be deployed working with or supporting operational partners. The Board has further determined that SOCA should aim to devote broadly 10% of its operational effort to supporting law enforcement partners in support of their objectives when those objectives would not otherwise be SOCA priorities.