JSB284 Lecture Notes - Cbrn Defense, Australian High Tech Crime Centre, Extortion
Document Summary
Examine current policing approaches to transnational organised crime. Examines challenges involved in policing this type of crime. Puts forwards the key factors for success. Current police responses are based on several core foundations: There is a use of up-to-date sophisticated technology. Exploitation of geographical and jurisdictional restrictions on law enforcement. Enforcement is not impossible but there are definitely major challenges. Criminal activity which takes place across international borders, which may include: organised crime, white- collar crime, offences involving works of art or other cultural property, drug trafficking, violent crime, fraud, terrorism, arms smuggling and/or illegal migration. Transnational crimes have a global dimension to them, meaning that individuals who commit the crimes operate across borders in one or more countries (davies, 2009, 176) . Australian crime commission act 2002 (cth) s4: serious and organised crime means an offence. Involves two or more offenders and substantial planning and organisation. Is usually committed with offences of a like kind.
