Recording: Scale and Nature of Organised Crime in the 21st Century
Panel one session on the scale, nature and complexity of the serious and organised crime threat as it impacts the UK in 2023.
Chair: Cathy Haenlein, Director, Organised Crime and Policing, RUSI
- Speakers: Angela Me, Chief Research and Trend Analysis Branch, UNODC
- Virginia Comolli, Head of Pacific Programme, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime
- Nic Woodhall, Head of Intelligence Analysis, National Crime Agency
About the conference
Serious and organised crime poses an enduring threat to the UK, with a significant impact on citizens, public services, businesses and infrastructure. The threat is complex, dynamic and global, with new variations in criminal activity emerging in a fast-changing international environment. The UK response must be evidence-based, agile and targeted at the most harmful aspects of the threat – with law enforcement and the wider system supported in this effort by a range of external partners.
The objective of RUSI’s inaugural Serious and Organised Crime Conference was to support the National Crime Agency and system partners in relation to academic engagement, and to formalise a set of relationships with external academics, researchers and analysts on behalf of the wider system. The conference brought together law enforcement officers, policy-makers, academics, researchers, analysts and industry experts to identify key and emerging aspects of the threat; to refine current and future research requirements; and to assess how practitioners and researchers can collaborate to enhance the effectiveness of the response and better measure the impact of law enforcement activity.