EUROPOL GIVES INSIGHT INTO CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGICAL AND ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE IN ORGANISED CRIME
October 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPOL's Organised Crime Threat Assessments have not always contained a wealth of detailed useful information - but its 2009 report shows how crime groups are adopting innovative technology and organisational skills: international business should take note. Keith Nuthall reports.
IT is a maxim amongst crime fighters that when business creates new technologies to make an honest pound, euro or dollar, organised criminals soon find a way of exploiting these opportunities.
And one disturbing - but sadly, perhaps unsurprising - development ...
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