Using Intelligence led policing as a model to Prioritize Organized Crime Investigations – A Canadian Perspective

1. Using Intelligence led policing as a model to Prioritize Organized Crime Investigations – A Canadian Perspective

2. Included Topics • The Canadian strategy • Tools • Integrated policing • Major case management • DAT – impact of investigations • Highlighting – joint Canada/US T/A • Public education

3. Canadian Law Enforcement Strategy to Combat O/C • Assign Priorities • Municipal/Regional • Provincial • National Law Enforcement Priorities National Regional/Provincial Local/Municipal Intelligence Practices Priorities Analysis Intelligence information • Assign Priorities • Municipal/Regional • Provincial • National Results

4. Strategy to Combat O/C Intelligence- Ledpolicing Targeted Policing CISC Governing Body Recommended Organized Crime Priorities • Provide enforcement priority advice to enforcement community • Police services • Federal enforcement entities • Joint force • operations Threat assessment Intelligence Analysis CISC (ACIIS) Intelligence information

5. TOOLS TO ASSIST PRIORITY SETTING • SLEIPNIR • framework for setting priorities • HARM PRIORITIZATION SCALE • Identifying the most harmful criminal activities

6. SLEIPNIR • Sleipnir is a threat-measurement technique developed by the RCMP which uses a rank-ordered set of attributes to compare organized groups of criminals • Sleipnir provides a threat measurement technique for strategic intelligence analysis and enables analysts to assess the relative threat posed by organized criminal groups to Canadian society

7. A B C D E F G H I J K L M ORGANIZED CRIME IN CANADA. 1999 10 15 CORRUPTION VIOLENCE INFILTRATION EXPERTISE SOPHISTICATION SUBVERSION RANK-ORDERED MATRIX OF THIRTEEN SIGNIFICANT GROUPS STRATEGY DISCIPLINE INSULATION INTELLIGENCE GATHERING MULTIPLE ENTERPRISES MOBILITY STABILITY SCOPE MONOPOLY HIGH GROUP COHESIVENESS MEDIUM CONTINUITY LOW LINKS TO OTHER ORGANIZED CRIME NIL LINKS TO CRIMINAL EXTREMISTS UNKNOWN RCMP CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORATE

9. Harm Prioritization Scale (HPS) • HPS is a harm measurement technique developed by the RCMP which identifies the most harmful criminal activities undertaken by organized crime groups. • HPS provides managers with a clearer picture to prioritize enforcement actions on the organized crime groups causing the most harms to our communities.

10. INTEGRATED POLICING • RCMP • Provincial Law Enforcement Agencies • Municipal Law Enforcement Agencies • Canada Border Service Agency • Citizenship and Immigration Canada • Revenue Canada Agency • Proceeds of Crime Units • Forensic Accounting Management Directorate • Provincial Crown Prosecutor’s Office • Federal Crown Prosecutor’s Office

11. MAJOR CASE MANAGEMENT • What is it? • A methodology and a philosophy that is used to manage a major case. It promotes accountability and responsibility

12. MAJOR CASE MANAGEMENT Contd. • How do we use it? • A simple and consistent methodology that is initiated at the beginning of all major cases. (Includes a consistent filing system, tasking, functions) • What is a major case? • An investigation that goes beyond the normal delivery of a police service. (ie. homicide, multiple victim sexual assault, complex drug investigation, major accidents & disasters)

13. The Disruption Attributes Tool (DAT) • What is it? • A way of measuring our investigative impact on organized crime • What is the value? • the DAT enables us to measure the effectiveness of the disruptions based on three attributes of organized crime groups: Core Business, Financial, and Personal

14. Prioritizing Transnational Criminal Organizations, an Example of International Cooperation • Cross Border Crime Forum • Drugs & Organized Crime Sub Group • Joint Canada/US threat assessment on transnational organized crime 2006 (RCMP, DEA & FBI) • Cross training of Analysts • Canadian operations model utilized including SLEIPNIR • Public version

15. Public Education • The RCMP Drugs & Organized Crime Awareness Service Vision: • To make the Canadian public a significant partner of Canadian law enforcement in order to effectively combat and reduce the effects of Organized Crime in Canada. • That all law enforcement officers understand their role in the fight against Organized Crime and how their daily law enforcement activities directly impact upon Organized Crime’s ability to function successfully

16. Conclusion • Using Intelligence led policing as a model to Prioritize Organized Crime Investigations • SLEIPNIR & Harm Prioritization Scale Tools • Integrated investigative units • The ability to report to government on the effectiveness of our investigations • Education & awareness

17. PROJECT COLISÉE • An example of an international policing action targeting organized crime • Countries included; Canada, United States, Venezuela, Italy, Haiti and others

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