Opzet presentatie

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Eastern European Organised Crime
A police perspective
Franca van der Laan Researcher Dutch National
Crime Squad
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• History
• View on Eastern European Organised Crime
• general
• mobile banditry
• Present activities

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• Kernteam Noord- en Oost-Nederland
• 1999 Eastern European Organised Crime a Threat
  to the Netherlands? (Project)
• 2000 Crime Pattern Analysis East Europe 1999
• 2002 Crime Pattern Analysis Eastern Europe
  2000- 2001
• Dutch National Crime Squad (dNR)
• 2004 Crime without frontiers CPA 2002-2003
• 2005 Mobile Banditism from Poland and Lithuania
• National intelligence department (dNRI)
• 2004 Organised Crime threat assessment

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Crime without frontiers

• Extent and developments
• and
• Nature
• of crime related to Central and Eastern Europe
  
• and
• Effects of EU-enlargement May 2004

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20 Countries

• Eastern Europe 15 successor states of the former
  SU
• Central Europe Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic,
  Slovakia, Slovenia
• Not included Balkans (successor states of former
  Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Rumania)

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Sources

• Police
• Special investigation services (e.g. tax police)
• Partners abroad (Belgium, Germany, Poland,
  Lithuania, EU e.a.)
• Academic Publications
• Press

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Approach

• Data on suspects and offences
• Large database
• Labeling crime groups after data analysis
• Broad definition of organised crime

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Defining OC
The combinations of suspects that -commit two
or more offences -on illegal markets -that are
punishable with 4 years of imprisonment or more
are included in organised crime.
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Suspects in HKS,1996-2002
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Figures in perspective

• Native country of suspects living in the
  Netherlands (2002)
• 1) Netherlands, 2) Surinam, 3) Morocco, 4) Dutch
  Antilles, 5) Turkey, 6) Former Yugoslavia, 7)
  Former SU
• Native country of suspects not living in the
  Netherlands (2002)
• 1) Netherlands, 2) Belgium, 3) Germany, 4)
  Poland, 5) France, 6) Former SU
• A relatively high percentage of property crime
  without violence (EE 75 against 56 average).

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Nature of EE crime

• Mobile banditry
• THB
• Synthetic narcotics
• Financial crime (money laundering, cigarette
  smuggling)

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Origin of the offenders

• Top 3 Poland, Russia, Lithuania
• Then Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaidzjan, Georgia
• Other 13 countries of little importance

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May 1st, 2004

• Does EU-enlargement lead to an increase in
  offenders from Eastern European origin?

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Conclusion effects enlargement

• No increase of criminals as an effect of
  enlargement. They are already here!
• Possible increase of smuggling illicit goods
• Better co-operation has a positive effect on law
  enforcement

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Mobile banditry

• Organised crime is increasingly petty crime,
  such as burglary, shop lifting and pocket
  lifting.
• (Europol 2005)

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Mobile banditry
Criminal groups, that mostly travel around
in cars, and that use bordercrossing hit-and-run
tactics in order to commit series of crimes, like
e.g. passing counterfeit notes, theft and robbery.
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Mobile banditry

• Car break-ins
• Vehicle theft
• Ram Raids
• Robberies
• Shop lifting
• Counterfeit money

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Foto drukkerij Kaunas
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Honderdjes rollen van de pers
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Pallets met vals geld
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Current police policy

• EEOC is no area of interest anymore
• Mobile banditry project Polaris recently followed
  up by dNRI
• Special police team for corruptive contacts of
  Dutch nationals abroad

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Thank you for your attention

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