Proactive Investigation and Preventative Measures

Abstract

This chapter highlights proactive investigations, wherein the police initiate action against some kind of continuing criminal activity. This could be targeting suspected offenders or targeting a particular type of crime where the offenders are unidentified. Proactive investigation is not confined to covert operations, such as surveillance. A range of overt proactive options to prevent, detect, and disrupt crime are available, including activities like executing search warrants, high visibility patrols, road checks, and exercising stop and search powers. Other proactive preventative options include consulting and working with specialists in covert operations, confiscation of criminal property, dealing with threats to life (TTL), managing dangerous offenders through Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA), and using options from the various prevention orders and injunctions that are available for certain types of crime.