Keith Ditcham is Senior Research Fellow and (Acting) Director of RUSI’s Organised Crime and Policing Research Group, bringing over 19... read more
Alexander Babuta, Marion Oswald and Ardi Janjeva
Artificial intelligence is both an opportunity and a challenge for the UK intelligence community.
Tags: Organised Crime and Policing, Occasional Papers, UK, Intelligence, Law and Ethics, Technology, Europe
Anton Moiseienko, Alexandria Reid and Isabella Chase
This Briefing Paper analyses the possible criminal risks posed by the UK's future freeports.
Tags: Briefing Papers, UK, Domestic Security, Organised Crime
Ardi Janjeva
As the UK remains in its lockdown phase, the demand for electronic devices to work and engage in social contact is booming. This widens the target population for fraudsters in a substantial way, allowing them to adjust scams which play on people’s deepest fears.
Tags: Coronavirus, Organised Crime and Policing, Organised Crime, Organised Crime, Technology
Ardi Janjeva
As the UK remains in its lockdown phase, the demand for electronic devices to work and engage in social contact is booming. This widens the target population for fraudsters in a substantial way, allowing them to adjust scams which play on people’s deepest fears.
Tags: Coronavirus, Organised Crime and Policing, Organised Crime, Organised Crime, Technology
Isabella Chase
Tools to enable financial inclusion exist, but without positive incentives to put these into practice barriers will remain.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Law and Ethics, Organised Crime, Terrorism
Keith Ditcham
Organised crime might seek to exploit the coronavirus pandemic in several ways. What are the likely implications for the law enforcement agencies?
Tags: Coronavirus, Organised Crime and Policing, Americas, UK, Europe
Alexandria Reid and Tom Keatinge
Based on a recent exercise in Lao People’s Democratic Republic, this Newsbrief explores the value of revisiting historic wildlife cases from a financial perspective.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, RUSI Newsbrief, Organised Crime
Alexandria Reid
E-commerce and cross-border delivery services within the EU are about to become more competitive, as new regulations introduced by the European Commission will permit a consumer in France to purchase a Gucci handbag from the company’s Romanian website with greater ease. While consumers are likely to rejoice at renewed efforts to harmonise prices across the single market, organised crime groups...
Tags: RUSI Newsbrief, Terrorism and Conflict, European Union, Organised Crime, Europe
Eduardo Guerrero
For the first time in a decade, Mexico can expect key changes to its security policy. While the ongoing war on drugs has proven to be an epic failure, the outcomes of the new strategy are uncertain.
Tags: Civil–Military Relations, RUSI Newsbrief, Central and South America, Terrorism and Conflict, International Security Studies, Counterinsurgency, Organised Crime
RUSI analysts look ahead at the issues affecting defence and security in 2015.
Aerospace, Global Security Issues, Intelligence, Organised Crime, Terrorism, UK Defence
The latest KPMG study commissioned by RUSI reveals that almost 45 billion illicit cigarettes were consumed in Europe in 2017, despite a 7.4% decline on 2016 figures. This equates to €10 billion in...
Terrorism and Conflict, Organised Crime, Illicit Trade, Organised Crime, Europe
RUSI is launching a new research and training programme focussed on disrupting the illicit funds earned from the illegal wildlife trade in East and Southern Africa, with a focus on Malawi, Zambia and...
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Terrorism and Conflict, Organised Crime, Illicit Trade, Organised Crime
RUSI has been commissioned by KPMG to undertake qualitative analysis on illicit trade within the region.
Terrorism and Conflict, Illicit Trade, Organised Crime
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick delivered the inaugural RUSI Annual Security Lecture.
Tags: Cyber, Organised Crime and Policing, UK, Technology, Europe
A discussion with David Green CB QC, Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), hosted by RUSI's Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, UK, Organised Crime, Law and Ethics, Organised Crime
As part of RUSI’s Strategic Hub for Organised Crime Research workshop series, this event will examine the potential impact of virtual currencies and Fintech platforms on the future of money...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Cyber, AML/CTF, Terrorism and Conflict, Organised Crime, Illicit Trade, Organised Crime, Technology
On the Cusp: Jonathan Kewley
Germany’s Future Participation in Nuclear Sharing – a Challenge for NATO?
The Open Skies Treaty and Prospects for European Confidence-Building Measures