- Bill C-24 : Presentation to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights
- Bill C-24 : Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
- Challenges to Internet Investigations
- Organized Crime and Money Laundering in British Columbia
- Targeting Street Gangs from the Ground Up - Caroline Ross
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November 7, 2008
Caroline Ross has written an excellent article on some recent initiatives targeting gang crime in Greater Vancouver. In it she details the actions of the Uniform Gang Task Force, the BC Integrated Gang Task Force, as well as CFSEU-BC.
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October 31, 2008
British Columbia has always placed a priority on attacking the financial basis of organized crime, and offences committed to benefit a criminal organization must continue to be a priority in order to effectively sanction organized criminal activity. In order to accomplish this, it is paramount that some provisions of C-95 be retained and expanded, and specifically matters which relate to restraining and forfeiting proceeds of crime. Also, those provisions which extend Part VI (wiretap) applications and the access to income tax information in relation to criminal organizations, must continue in order to ensure that police have the necessary means to investigate organized crime.
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October 31, 2008
Organized crime and money laundering are problems that affect all Canadians. Money laundering is a serious criminal offence entailing the illegal movement of funds, estimated to be between five and seventeen billion dollars, in and through Canada each year. The impact of organized crime and money laundering goes beyond easily recognized consequences such as violence and economic losses to include less visible social costs. In recent years the federal government has taken a number of steps, in partnership with the provinces, territories, and the police, against organized crime, including initiatives to fight cross-border smuggling and seize the proceeds of crime.
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October 31, 2008
C-24 represents an opportunity for law enforcement in Canada, to significantly advance prosecutions in regard to organized crime groups. The broadening of the definition of Enterprise Crimes to include all indictable offences under the Criminal Code and any Act of the federal Parliament, provides a significant opportunity for law enforcement to seize the proceeds of crime from the broadest range of profit motivated offences engaged in by organized crime. Without the expansion of this definition, the proceeds of crime from offences such as forging or falsifying a credit card cannot be seized. Earlier this year OCABC seized an illegal credit card factory, which held at risk, a total of $330 million dollars in credit potential. Proceeds of crime from this offence could not be seized due to the restricted definition.
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February 1, 2003
The investigational requirements in respect to the Internet appear to arise from two potentially different environments.
The first is the use of the Internet to commit offences as the result of its unique capability as a very efficient communication device. This is the use of the Internet to transfer information which is by the nature of its content, or connotation of its meaning, illegal or serves to advance an illegal act. Considering the use of the Internet from only this perspective, examples of such unlawful acts would be the distribution of child pornography, hatred, stolen information, or the conveying of criminally relevant information such as directions in furtherance of a drug deal, or information to advance a theft.
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