Local policing and transnational organized crime

Abstract

This paper discusses the problems associated with a crime management model that is underpinned by the geographical reach of the investigating agencies, and the merits of different models of policing that work to counter transnational organized crime. It analyzes the different policing approaches to this level of criminality from three organizing frameworks; intelligence led policing, problem-solving policing, and goal-oriented policing. It suggests that there is a puzzle at the heart of any policing solution, based on the principle of subsidiarity – how to link local policing activity with the efforts to tackle national and transnational organized criminality whilst maintaining a democratic mandate that privileges a mutual structure over the conglomerate model. It concludes with a suggestion to look towards an Intelligent Problem Solving solution that prioritizes the grassroots by focusing on threat, harm, and risk within a crime continuum.

Keywords:

• National Intelligence Model
• intelligence led policing
• transnational organized crime

Acknowledgements

This article is a summary of the author's chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Transnational Organized Crime, due for publication in November 2011. The opinions expressed in this article are the authors' own and not those of Thames Valley Police.

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