Let’s hope this works!

Sunday telegraph piece on an aspect of the terrorism/organised crime nexus. Usual cautions apply! Supergrasses tend to exaggerate their stories, but it would be an interesting link, if true.

this will be a case worth watching as it may tell us something of how burglary gangs are organised or reorganising. Police allege this is linked to burglaries all over the country. One thing we know about the Irish is that they travel, with important diasporas in the UK, USA and Australia. Increasingly also in … THREE ARRESTED OVER ‘LARGE SCALE’ BURGLARY SPREE

Pisa 4th ECPR (2007) General Conference Standing Group on Organised Crime Section The measurement and methodology involved in the study of organised crime Chairs: Petrus van Duyne and Klaus von Lampe Fri 7 Sep 11:00 – 12:40 Real and perceived threats of organised crime Chair: Sayaka Fukumi Fri 7 Sep 14:00 – 15:40 Organised crime … PISA

Fascinating story of conflict mineral extraction akin to events in the Congo. Someone has a business model that is being applied more frequently than formerly realised. Mobile phones and BMWs come from some very dubious sources.

Piece on ‘Ndragheta from BBC. useful map and links.

Presumably, this piece is a taster for more to come? Article is a real teaser about female gang membership in the UK…and presumably primarily London?

Account of a meeting to discuss how to handle an attack on the power grid in the US and who might carry it out.

It isnt crime fighting software. It’s data handling software being used to process large quantities of data and turn it/them into evidence. Video data as well as words. expensive and being used by Royal Military Police. Its a bit of a sloppy article, presumably that started off as a press release.

This material comes from the Russian mafia website, which is well worth exploring for material on Russian organised crime. It’s difficult to make individual links to posts as it is a structured site.