Serious and Organised Acquisitive Crime Threat Assessment 2026

Serious and Organised Acquisitive Crime is becoming better orchestrated, more mobile and more technologically enabled. What often appears as isolated theft, retail loss or supply chain disruption is increasingly part of coordinated activity driven by organised crime groups operating across sectors and geographies.

Clue Software’s Serious and Organised Acquisitive Crime Threat Assessment 2026 sets out how this threat is evolving and what it means in practice for organisations. Drawing on policing, government and industry reporting alongside frontline investigative insight, it explores how acquisitive crime functions as a broader criminal economy, spanning theft, handling, transport, resale and laundering of proceeds.

The report concentrates on the practical implications for senior leaders and operational teams, including:

How organised acquisitive crime exploits supply chains, logistics networks and online platforms
Where weak or fragmented reporting obscures the true scale of harm
How repeat offenders and coordinated activity can be identified earlier
Why fragmented, siloed responses allow criminal networks to operate with lower risk
What organisations can do to move from isolated incident response to intelligence‑led disruption

The aim is to support a more coordinated, intelligence‑led approach to SOAC. By improving how information is captured, connected and acted upon, organisations can identify organised activity earlier, work more effectively with partners and reduce the harm caused by repeat and high‑impact offending.