01/08 – Inaugural Pacific regional conference talk transnational organised crime. The Inaugural Pacific Regional Law Enforcement Conference officially began today at the Hilton Resort on Denarau Island in Nadi. The three-day conference brought together representatives from the police, Customs and Immigration from across the Pacific, with academic partners. While opening the event, Acting Minister for Defence Jone Usamate said transnational crime was an issue that had brought about devastation to the region’s communities and its younger generations.
01/08 – AUSTRAC partners with Pacific to combat money laundering and boost regional security. Australia’s anti-money laundering agency AUSTRAC is hosting the inaugural Pacific Financial Intelligence Analyst Course which commences at the Australian National Unive rsity (ANU) today. New technologies are changing the financial landscape in the Pacific which transnational crime syndicates are exploiting. AUSTRAC’s partnership with Pacific financial intelligence units mitigates these vulnerabilities, and ensures Pacific Islands are not seen as an attractive conduit by criminals.
04/08 – In Canada’s Yukon, U.S. Border Creates a Ripe Environment for Organized Crime. Few live in Canada’s frigid and wild Yukon province, a nearly 200,000 mile stretch of land wedged between the Alaska and the Arctic Circle, yet organized crime is growing in the region, according to a recent report by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Force (RCMP).
04/08 – Report: Pollution crime is highly profitable, organized and harming the planet. A new INTERPOL report targets this information gap with an in-depth examination of 27 pollution crime case studies shared by law enforcement in INTERPOL member countries. While most of the cases come from European countries, investigations demonstrate that the organized crime-pollution crime nexus is a global phenomenon, involving a wide variety of perpetrators and organizational structures.
05/08 – Travelling gang of South American thieves dismantled after robberies in France and Spain. Law enforcement authorities in Spain, France and Chile, supported by Europol’s European Serious Organised Crime Centre, have closed in on a network of South American thieves who arrived in Europe as ‘tourists’ only to then carry out a string of burglaries in residential areas in France and Spain.
07/08 – Trinidad and Barbados Police make major drug seizure. The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) says a multi-million dollar drug haul was made in Barbados on August 2 and a Colombian national was also arrested after a two-year operation. In a media release, TTPS says “marijuana with a street value of TT $72 063 420 was seized in Barbados following months of surveillance, intelligence gathering and collaboration with regional law enforcement agencies”.
