The Act Schedule 1: The Serious Organised Crime Agency Section 21: Operational responsibility of Director General
103.This section seeks to enshrine the operational independence of the Director General. It will be for the Home Secretary to set the strategic priorities of SOCA and for the SOCA Board (of which the Director General will be a member) to set other priorities, but thereafter it will be for the Director General to determine which operations to mount and how such operations are to be conducted.