Organized crime in business

Abstract

Purpose

To provide a viewpoint and a stronger awareness of the increased involvement of criminal activities in the capital markets through organized crime and the need for integrated policing.

Design/methodology/approach

The writer has over 25 years of experience with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with over 15 of those years conducting white collar crime investigations and/or managing teams of investigators.

Findings

Canada is having good success in using the concepts of integrated policing in the implementation of our Integrated Market Enforcement Teams (IMETs) to detect, investigate and prevent capital markets crime.

Originality/value

This paper identifies the need for integrated policing in order to facilitate and foster close working relationships with key stakeholders in the various levels of regulatory enforcement and disciplinary agencies in order to target those who commit some of the larger organized financial crimes.

Citation

Sliter, J. (2006), "Organized crime in business", Journal of Financial Crime, Vol. 13 No. 4, pp. 383-386. https://doi.org/10.1108/13590790610707528