Programme Challenger

Programme Challenger is Greater Manchester’s partnership response to serious and organised crime. It's made up of many different agencies, who all work together to disrupt and dismantle individuals and networks committing serious crime across the city-region, including running drug lines, exploiting people for financial gain, buying and using firearms, and laundering the money they make from their criminality.

The key areas of work for Programme Challenger include:

Modern slavery
Organised crime
Criminal exploitation of children, young people and vulnerable adults
Economic crime
Foreign national offenders
Offender management

Read about Programme Challenger (link opens in new tab).

Serious and Organised Crime

Programme Challenger have drawn up the Serious and Organised Crime Strategy.

The strategy shows how Greater Manchester will tackle serious and organised crime in all forms. Priorities of the strategy include:

Targeted action against serious and organised criminals, stopping the problem at source
Supporting opportunities to build resilience within communities, with a focus on preventing people becoming victims and perpetrators
To work collaboratively to develop innovative, evidence-based approaches
Improve understanding of current and emerging threats
Support enhanced partnership response through information sharing

Serious and Organised Crime Strategy

Serious and Organised Crime Plan on a Page (PDF, 300KB)