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Why is there a Social Intelligence and Investigation Service?
What are we responsible for?
What are our daily activities?
What are our aims for the future?
To be continued ….
The SIOD (Sociale Inlichtingen- en Opsporingsdienst) fights criminality in the field of social security. Our purpose is to protect this ‘essential element of society’ . That is what we stand for.
Legal rules and regulations are important for our society. Not only regulations that regulate behaviour between citizens, but also those that determine relations between citizens and the government.
These rules we call social economic legislation. Various types of legislation are at issue here. Consider for instance regulations concerning the distribution of income, tax laws and social security. Or consider legislation in the field of public health, the protection of the environment, the protection of consumers or the integrity of the financial sector. Without these rules the Netherlands are simply unable to function. For that reason, it is important that they are upheld.
Social economic legislation is generally complex legislation. That means that maintaining these rules and regulations requires measures that have been made to measure. When all other preventive and control measures have failed are maintained through criminal investigations.
The SIOD was established in 2002 to uphold the rules and regulations of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW) through criminal investigations. The mission of the SIOD is as follows:
“The SIOD is an organisation which aims at forestalling abuse and misuse of social legislation and of benefits resulting thereof by means of criminal investigations into serious types of fraud and thus to contribute to the preservation of the support within society for this legislation and the benefits resulting thereof".
The Special Police forces Act (Wet op de BOD’en) determines the domain of the SIOD. In this act, and in the Parliamentary discussion of it, the field of activity of the SIOD is clearly described in relation to the role of the special investigation as part of the anti-fraud measures within the sphere of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW).
The domain of the SIOD concerns in principle all legislation of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment. This mainly concerns subjects in the fields of employee insurance schemes, social assistance, (benefits and and getting people back to work) and the labour market (employment of illegal aliens, temporary work agencies and labour market subsidies). However, other types of SZW-subjects such as labour conditions belong to the domain of the SIOD.
The legislation that is most important for the SIOD can be divided into three categories:
The SIOD aims at being more than an ‘investigation factory’. We not only investigate crimes in the field of social security, but we also try to prevent fraud by acting against the criminal networks behind the fraud and we try to remove the fraud construction by informing the ministry and the administrative concerned. By these means, the SIOD indicates that social fraud will not be tolerated. The SIOD does not operate alone, but with partner organisations such as the public prosecutor, the Labour Inspectorate, the police, and the fiscal police.
The SIOD wants to reach the optimum result and (social) effect through criminal enforcement of the legislation of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment. Investigation is for the SIOD more than just ‘catching criminals’. For instance by working together with partner organizations, through exchanging information concerning fraud patterns and by explicit communication about our results in the media are we able to prevent fraud.
Investigation does indeed have preventive effects. To realize this we invest in the investigation process, in insight, in policy and in professional standards. Important conditions in this respect are strengthening the quality of our staff, cooperation with partners and a good internal and external communication.
The SIOD wants to use its investigation capacity as effectively as possible. We do this by taking the right tactical and operational decisions. Through a good selection of fraudcases and execution of criminal investigations we aim at realizing an optimum result and effect.
By collecting, processing and analyzing (investigation) information the SIOD obtains more knowledge of the way in which criminal entrepreneurs could be combated. Through this insight we can also make better choices, for instance with respect to certain themes we want to give extra attention and for specific investigative techniques which might be most successfull in given circumstances. In addition, this information helps us to deal with possible fraud risks, before they even occur.
The SIOD informs the Ministry of Social Affairs of relevant fraud risks through so-called ‘Policy-documents’. By means of this information from investigations, policymakers at the ministry are able to adapt legislation and/or regulations in order to make them more fraud-proof. Sometimes administrative procedures can be improved as well.
Financial and digital detection are important investigation techniques for the SIOD. Intensifying the knowledge and investigative techniques of our detectives increases our professionality.
The main objective of the SIOD is ‘fighting criminal entrepreneurship within the field of work and income’. That should clarify the more abstract term ‘fighting serious criminality’ of our mission.
We define criminal entrepreneurship for this purpose as obtaining financial-economic gains through facilitating (others) committing criminal offences by delivering goods or services. This not only concerns the criminal entrepreneur who specializes in illegal activities (organized criminality) but also the entrepreneur who combines his role of bona fide entrepreneur with that of criminal entrepreneurship (forms of organisation criminality). Financial-economic profit may profit-maximization, loss-reduction. The social disturbance resulting from criminal entrepreneurship may take the form of financial damage, but also other forms of damage for society may result from it, such as false competition or human exploitation..
The investigationprocess of the SIOD is intelligence led.
The SIOD seeks insight in fraud risks. For that reason it is necessary to reconnoitre our worksphere for present and future developments. Thus we bring ‘threats’ and ‘opportunities’ for the organisation in focus. On the basis of this insight we can select the right cases to investigate and to deal with them effectively.
The SIOD deals with social disturbance thematically within the chain of work and income.
The SIOD choses a particular theme, in consultation with policy directorates of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW). This takes place on the basis of knowledge of the type, degree and development of criminal entepreneurship. Next, this theme developed into an action plan, in which all branches of the SIOD participate, which records selection criteria for investigations, external parties to cooperate with in this specific theme, communication and policy recommendations.
Effective cooperation requires a strategic partner approach.
The SIOD wants to cooperate well and effectively with his partners. To reach this objective a so-called ‘partneroptics’ has been developed. This indicates when and in what manner we want to cooperate with various relevant partners. This could have to do with the exchange of information but, also with operational cooperation in an investigation.
Financial and digital expertise are integrated parts of the SIOD-process.
The SIOD fights criminal entrepreneurship. For that reason we invest in the development of financial and digital expertise. Through this expertise we distinguish ourselves as a special police force and we remain successful. It is the purpose of financial and digital investigation to uncover more financial damage and criminal capita land – eventually – recover it. Digital detection focuses on three areas: hardware, data and the investigation. In addition this enables us to follow criminal money movements.
The employees of the SIOD enjoy their work.
The organization renders it possible for employees to enjoy their work. This aim does not merely concern the work itself, but also the creation of a good atmosphere at the workfloor.
The SIOD makes knowledge and abilities of its employees transparant by registering these in a structured fashion in a centralized database.
The SIOD wants to make a better use of the knowledge that is. available within the organization concerning, among other things, investigation, policy and analysis. This means collecting, making available, recording and sharing of knowledge. By making optimum use of this available knowledge, the SIOD shows himself to be an eminent investigator.
The SIOD looks to the future. In order to be able to fight criminality within the domain of social security successfully in the near future, the SIOD has formulated to help us succeed. These criteria are connected to the aspects ‘what we are here for’ and ‘ what we consider important’.
The necessity coping-stone within the enforcement of social security
One of the main reasons for establishing a special policeforce within social security was that is was considered desirable to add a final touch – of heavy investigation – to the inspection, the control and light investigation that were already there. Without such a (penal) coping-stone the suppliers of fraud signals lose part of their effectiveness. This aspect will keep playing an important role in the future and is predominantly present in the mission and vision of the SIOD with respect to penal enforcement.
Realistic ‘risk to get caught’ of big-time fraudsters (criminal entrepreneurs)
The criterium of ‘the risk to get caught of big-time fraudsters’ is also an important part of the SIOD-mission, our vision and collectieve ambition. Our aim to reach optimum results and (social) effects does entail that criminal entrepreneurs within the social security domain will be attacked in the future as well as today.
The retention of knowledge / insight with respect to investigation in social security
Building, retaining and sharing expertise with respect to the investigation of fraud in the social security domain forms a clear part of our vision (‘insight’) and strategic targets. In fact the word ‘special’ refers to this. It is this purpose which distinguishes us from the normal police force..
Policy-input from the special police forces
The SIOD is with respect to its selection of cases steered by policy directorates of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment. (The other three special police forces are also steered by their ministries). These special police forces – in their turn – supply their ministries of relevant policy-information and documentation from investigations. SIOD-investigations and -analyses deliver insights in socially undesirable developments and in situations in which the fraudsters profit from social security legislation.
