Interpol, set up in 1923, works to encourage cross-border criminal police cooperation.
-- Details of corruption and cross-border criminal activity, including weapons trafficking, human trafficking, alien smuggling, illicit finance, and cigarette smuggling.
The WJC investigators say such a juicy risk to reward ratio has attracted international networks already running a portfolio of cross-border criminal activities, including tax evasion and people smuggling.
May herself has praised Europol and other EU crime-fighting agencies for bringing terrorists to justice and helping to track down cross-border criminal networks, including those involving paedophiles and people traffickers.
Closed for decades, the border between Russia and China has been creaking open in recent years, allowing more trade and travel but also clearing the way for a peculiar cross-border criminal enterprise in animal parts for Chinese medicine and cooking.
The statement did, however, mention the need for joint attention to a number of issues, including the safety of genetically modified foods, research into the human genome, cross-border criminal organizations, the aging of populations in many developed countries and environmental issues like global warming.
The deal with the EU lays out guidelines for how they will exchange data during cross-border criminal and terrorist investigations.
In the final contribution to this special issue on innovative methods of data collection in criminology, De Bondt suggests solutions for doing cross-border criminal policy research and the confusion in wording and interpretation that emerge when comparing different legal systems.
Last month, UN Secretary-General Ban Kissued issued an important report in which he described poaching, mostly of elephants, as one of the "cross-border criminal activities in the sub-region" that represents a "growing security concern".
The most lucrative businesses for criminals are drug trafficking and counterfeiting, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said, launching an awareness-raising campaign about the size and cost of cross-border criminal networks.
In 2012, Brazilian police learned of a cross-border criminal conspiracy to murder Figueredo through wiretap surveillance on a phone call placed out of a heavily-guarded prison in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.
