Our strategy
The Commission remains committed to sustaining the national approach to managing betting integrity as defined in the SBI Plan. We will continue to work with partners and stakeholders in the betting industry, sport (including but not limited to SGBs, player associations and industry bodies) and law enforcement agencies to identify the vulnerabilities, support preventative action and strengthen the deterrents to corruption in betting. The collective objective is to prevent and discourage involvement in betting integrity issues by understanding the opportunities to subvert existing controls and making it more likely that those involved can be identified and appropriate sanctions imposed.
To achieve this goal and support international efforts to combat the threats we are engaged with European and international efforts to develop effective operational collaborations.
The Commission sees itself playing an important role through the continual development of the Sports Betting Intelligence Unit (SBIU), working in collaboration with partner organisations to identify the corruptors and corrupted. We aim to identify the longer term threats and to implement approaches that prevent and deter those that pose the greatest risk. To achieve this goal, we have established effective operational cooperation with our partners to maintain our understanding of the scale and scope of the threats presented to UK interests.
The Commission will work on the principle of being risk-based and proportionate in determining the focus and scale of our activity.
Whilst any lack of integrity related to how an event is managed will detract from the fairness and openness of that event and the interests of the sport involved, the Commission’s focus will be upon integrity matters directly related to betting. Specifically, where the outcome of an event has been influenced with the intention of benefiting through betting on it or where misuse of information is used when placing a bet. This includes making an assessment to consider if the offence of cheat has been committed.
The Commission understands the importance of upholding betting integrity to sporting bodies, the betting industry and to the public. It is familiar with methods used in other countries to promote betting integrity such as restricting the types of bets offered or approving sports governing bodies’ rules before allowing betting on those sports. The Commission has the power to impose such restrictions. However, the Commission does not consider, based on the available evidence, that such intrusive or resource intensive methods are warranted or would be effective in Great Britain, although we will continue to monitor developments in this area.
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Last updated: 19 January 2022
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