The Tackling Organised Exploitation (TOEX) project is a government funded programme backed by the National Crime Agency designed to “remove boundaries within policing” which hinder information sharing.
South Yorkshire Police, one of the forces signed up to the project, said that while local policing operations that crackdown on county lines gangs may be successful they “may have done little to target or disrupt the organised criminality upstream”.
“This approach can create risk – the organised criminal needs a new supply of victims in order to continue to make a profit.
“The TOEX model works to ensure that this does not happen – victims are safeguarded in a 'threat neutral' way which minimises further risk, the local operation is stopped, the organised criminality up the chain is disrupted, and the opportunity to simply move the exploitation elsewhere is interrupted,” a statement from South Yorkshire Police said.
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