1. Using Intelligence led policing as a model to Prioritize Organized Crime Investigations – A Canadian Perspective

2. Included Topics The Canadian strategy Tools Integrated policing
Major case management
DAT – impact of investigations
Highlighting – joint Canada/US T/A
Public education

3. Law Enforcement Priorities
Canadian Law Enforcement Strategy to Combat O/C
Assign Priorities
Municipal/Regional
Provincial
National
Intelligence Practices
Priorities
Analysis
Intelligence information
Law Enforcement Priorities
National
Regional/Provincial
Local/Municipal
Assign Priorities
Municipal/Regional
Provincial
National
Results

4. Strategy to Combat O/C Targeted Policing
Intelligence - Led policing
Targeted Policing
CISC
Governing Body
Recommended Organized Crime Priorities
Provide enforcement priority advice to enforcement community
Police services
Federal enforcement entities
Joint force
operations
Threat assessment
Intelligence Analysis
CISC (ACIIS)
Intelligence information

5. TOOLS TO ASSIST PRIORITY SETTING
SLEIPNIR
framework for setting priorities
HARM PRIORITIZATION SCALE
Identifying the most harmful criminal activities

6. SLEIPNIR
Sleipnir is a threat-measurement technique developed by the RCMP which uses a rank-ordered set of attributes to compare organized groups of criminals
Sleipnir provides a threat measurement technique for strategic intelligence analysis and enables analysts to assess the relative threat posed by organized criminal groups to Canadian society
This technique produces a framework for setting priorities by comparing the groups’ capabilities, limitations, and vulnerabilities. The matrix is the basis for systematically comparing groups in order to present and explain the relative threat they pose.
Note: The RCMP designated the project name as "Sleipnir" in reference to the eight-legged horse belonging to Odin in Old Norse mythology.

7. ORGANIZED CRIME IN CANADA. 1999 10 15B C D E F G H I J K L M
CORRUPTION
ORGANIZED CRIME
IN CANADA.
VIOLENCE
INFILTRATION
EXPERTISE
SOPHISTICATION
SUBVERSION
RANK-ORDERED MATRIX OF
THIRTEEN SIGNIFICANT GROUPS
STRATEGY
DISCIPLINE
INSULATION
INTELLIGENCE GATHERING
MULTIPLE ENTERPRISES
MOBILITY
STABILITY
SCOPE
The values for each group are provided by the responsible analysts, based on the information provided by the divisions. Fleshed out in t/a
Matrix is skeleton of the strategic intelligence analyst describing and assessing each group.
- groups rank ordered by their capability and their activity in Canada for level of threat they pose to Canada and Canadians
- attributes in order of importance
- each attribute is defined, and has five possible values,
- values for attributes color coded
Note: This matrix highlights the 13 most significant oc groups at the time. The process is repeated over the years to see if our operations are degrading the oc group’s capabilities.
MONOPOLY
HIGH
GROUP COHESIVENESS
MEDIUM
CONTINUITY
LOW
LINKS TO OTHER ORGANIZED CRIME
NIL
LINKS TO CRIMINAL EXTREMISTS
UNKNOWN
RCMP
CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORATE

8. NOTE: The four columns drop in one at a time, you have to push the mouse to drop each one individually
(click mouse twice) This chart shows a single chapter of a major OC group over a period of four years.
(click mouse) A major operation resulted in the arrests of all the key members in the spring of Despite this major disruption to their criminal activities, the 2001 profile shows their continued strength as a group (Discipline, Stability, Group Cohesiveness, Continuity of membership) and we predicted that the group would not disband, but would instead rebound as they adapted to the new circumstances.
(click mouse) The 2002 profile shows this rebound in progress, despite the continued imprisonment of all the key members.

9. Harm Prioritization Scale (HPS)
HPS is a harm measurement technique developed by the RCMP which identifies the most harmful criminal activities undertaken by organized crime groups.
HPS provides managers with a clearer picture to prioritize enforcement actions on the organized crime groups causing the most harms to our communities.
HPS is a statistical model which combines harms and criminal activities to produce a prioritized list identifying the most harmful criminal activity to the least harmful criminal activity in a given community
HPS permits law enforcement to make more informed decisions to maximize targeting of criminals
The five harms identified are; Environmental, Health & Safety, Personal, Economic & financial harms to government & Financial harms – Personal and Business

10. INTEGRATED POLICING RCMP Provincial Law Enforcement Agencies
Municipal Law Enforcement Agencies
Canada Border Service Agency
Citizenship and Immigration Canada
Revenue Canada Agency
Proceeds of Crime Units
Forensic Accounting Management Directorate
Provincial Crown Prosecutor’s Office
Federal Crown Prosecutor’s Office

11. MAJOR CASE MANAGEMENT What is it?
A methodology and a philosophy that is used to manage a major case. It promotes accountability and responsibility

12. MAJOR CASE MANAGEMENT Contd.
How do we use it?
A simple and consistent methodology that is initiated at the beginning of all major cases. (Includes a consistent filing system, tasking, functions)
What is a major case?
An investigation that goes beyond the normal delivery of a police service. (ie. homicide, multiple victim sexual assault, complex drug investigation, major accidents & disasters)
Critical Aspects of MCM
•Supervision
•Organization: investigation planning, information flow, task organization.
•Resource Utilization: personnel selection, resource allocation and management.
Promotes ACCOUNTABILITY & RESPONSIBILITY
•Everyone knows their specific role as well as everyone else's.
•Everyone is responsible for a specific role/function and accountable to each other.
The Team Commander, File Coordinator & Primary Investigator form the Command Triangle that controls the Flow-Speed-Direction of an investigation.
Decisions are made in consultation with entire team. Authority/chain of command is clearly defined and selection for specific roles/functions are based on qualifications and experience. These roles include;
•Field Investigator
•Media Liaison
•Interviewer
•Data Input
•Search Warrant Coordinator/Affiant
•Surveillance Coordinator
•Exhibit Officer

13. The Disruption Attributes Tool (DAT)
What is it?
A way of measuring our investigative impact on organized crime
What is the value?
the DAT enables us to measure the effectiveness of the disruptions based on three attributes of organized crime groups: Core Business, Financial, and Personal
In the last few years, law enforcement agencies have been struggling to identify their impact against targeted organized crime groups. In other words, identifying and reporting the effectiveness of operational disruptions has been a miss and as a result it remains unclear if law enforcement is having an impact against organized crime.
Previously, law enforcement agencies would signify disruptions by simply counting arrests made, drugs seized, warrants executed and searches undertaken; thereby measuring the efficiencies of the disruptions and not the actual impacts made to organized crime groups.
A DAT is submitted for each disruption that has occurred on any organized crime project (immediately after the disruption has taken place). The lead investigator of each organized crime project is responsible for completing and submitting the DAT form to the Divisional CrOps Reviewer for review and analysis. Once review and analysis is complete, the CrOps Reviewer submits the completed form to HQ.
The information is then compiled to provide a national comprehensive picture of the impact we have had on targeted organized crime groups and quarterly reported to all Divisions and Officers.

14. Prioritizing Transnational Criminal Organizations, an Example of International Cooperation
Cross Border Crime Forum
Drugs & Organized Crime Sub Group
Joint Canada/US threat assessment on transnational organized crime 2006 (RCMP, DEA & FBI)
Cross training of Analysts
Canadian operations model utilized including SLEIPNIR
Public version
Through the Cross Border Crime Forum, the Drugs and Organized Crime Sub Group completed a joint Canada/US threat assessment on organized crime (2006). The agencies involved were the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), The Drug Enforcement Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This threat assessment prioritizes organized crime groups for joint investigation. This is the first joint Canada/US threat assessment on transnational organized crime that used a singular methodology to prioritize OC groups.
Along with the classified threat assessment a vetted public version is available on the RCMP and Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness web sites. The public version provides insight into commodities and criminal markets in addition to an overview of organized crime groups operating in North America. Public education on the pervasiveness of organized crime in Canada and the United States is an important tool to raise awareness
OPTIONAL CBCF BACKGROUND: In April 1997, the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Canada agreed to establish a bilateral consultative mechanism to address cross border crime issues. The Cross Border Crime Forum (CBCF), led by the Minister of Public Safety Canada and the Attorney General of the United States, held it’s first meeting September 1997 in Ottawa.

15. Public Education
The RCMP Drugs & Organized Crime Awareness Service Vision:
To make the Canadian public a significant partner of Canadian law enforcement in order to effectively combat and reduce the effects of Organized Crime in Canada.
That all law enforcement officers understand their role in the fight against Organized Crime and how their daily law enforcement activities directly impact upon Organized Crime’s ability to function successfully
The Drugs & Organized Crime Branch views the necessity for a National Drugs & Organized Crime Awareness Service as a natural extension of existing law enforcement initiatives currently used by the RCMP and other law enforcement agencies to combat organized crime in an effective manner.
Millions of dollars are expended annually by Governments at all levels, to combat the effects of Organized Crime. The RCMP Drugs & Organized Crime Branch educates both law enforcement officers and the Canadian public about the very real and substantial effects of Organized Crime on their personal and professional lives.
How does Organized Crime impact Canadians?
threats to public health and safety through faulty counterfeit goods (drugs/electrical devices)
drug-related violence & motorcycle and street gang turf wars (innocent victims)
higher automobile insurance premiums resulting from organized car thefts
massive tax revenue losses from contraband alcohol and tobacco (taxes diverted which support health care/government services)
economic fraud (stock market manipulation)
higher costs for products & services (banks, insurance companies, hydro & taxes)
toxic waste dumping (environmental damage)
•These are just some examples....organized crime affects everyone!
Public education is an effective way to reduce victimization….

16. Conclusion
Using Intelligence led policing as a model to Prioritize Organized Crime Investigations
SLEIPNIR & Harm Prioritization Scale Tools
Integrated investigative units
The ability to report to government on the effectiveness of our investigations
Education & awareness
Canada has adopted an intelligence led, integrated methodology to maximize resources. The tools such as “SLEIPNIR” and the “HARM PRIORITIZATION SCALE” help us determine the priority organized crime groups to investigate.
Reporting to government on our investigative effectiveness is critical to maintaining resources. The Disruption Attributes Tool helps us to measure our policing efforts on organized crime investigations.
Finally, education & awareness on organized crime is an investment in reducing the impact of organized crime on Canadians
Thank you

17. PROJECT COLISÉE
An example of an international policing action targeting organized crime
Countries included; Canada, United States, Venezuela, Italy, Haiti and others

18. Questions ?
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