Summary
"This report identifies and describes the main anti-organized crime (and often anticorruption) agencies that are in place and functioning in countries including Australia, UK, US, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Northern Ireland. This report does not focus on public policing agencies, but rather on the diverse 'commission-type' bodies that have been created to gain intelligence on serious crimes and corruption. In some jurisdictions the commissions build investigative cases, and in some jurisdictions they prosecute the organized criminals. Drawing from all of the commissions studied, this report addresses what Canada could learn regarding 'best practices' and conversely, what ought to be avoided."--Introduction.