What UN Police Do?

One of the objectives of the Philippine National Police Officers being deployed in the UN
mission is for mentoring other law enforcement of foreign countries like East Timor and Kosovo.
Assistance to host-state police and other law enforcement agencies. United Nations
Police Officers support the reform, restructuring and rebuilding of domestic police and other law
enforcement agencies through training and advising. Direct assistance is also provided, often
through trust funds, for the refurbishment of facilities and the procurement of vehicles,
Communication equipment and other law enforcement material. Such assistance has been
provided in the past, for example, by the police components of peace operations in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Burundi, Cote dlvoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Kosovo, Liberia and
Sierre Leone.

What is Transnational Organized Crime?

Transnational organized crime involves the planning and execution of illicit business
ventures by groups or networks of individuals working in more than one country. These criminal
groups use systematic violence and corruption to achieve their goal. Crimes commonly
include money laundering; human smuggling; cybercrime; and trafficking of humans,
drugs, weapons, endangered species, body parts, or nuclear material. Transnational crime
ring activities weaken economies and financial systems and undermine democracy.
These networks often prey on governments that are not powerful enough to oppose them,
prospering on illegal activities, such as drug trafficking that bring them immense profits. In
carrying out illegal activities, they upset the peace and stability of nations worldwide,
often using bribery, violence, or terror to achieve their goals.

What the Major Transnational Organized Crime Groups?

Transnational crime often operates in well-organized groups, intentionally united to carry out
illegal actions. Groups typically involve certain hierarchies and are headed by a powerful
leader. These transnational organized crime groups work to make a profit through illegal
activities. Because groups operate internationally, their activity is a threat to global
security, often weakening governmental institutions or destroying legitimate business
endeavours. Well-known organized crime groups include:

Russian Mafia. Around 200 Russian groups that operate in nearly 60 countries worldwide.
They have been involved in racketeering, fraud, tax evasion, gambling, drug
trafficking, ransom, robbery and murder.
La Cosa Nostra. Known as the Italian or Italian-American mafia. The most prominent
organized crime group in the world from the 1920’s to the 1990’s. They have been involved in
violence, arson, bombings, torture, sharking, gambling, drug trafficking, health insurance
fraud, and political and judicial corruption.
Yakuza Japanese criminal group. Often involved in multinational criminals activities,
including human trafficking, gambling, prostitution, and undermining licit businesses.
FukChing. Chinese organized group in the United States. They have been involved in
smuggling, street violence, and human trafficking.
Triads. Underground criminal societies based in Hong Kong. They control secret
markets and bus routes and are often involved in money laundering and drug trafficking.
Heijin Taiwanese gangsters who are often executives in large corporations. They are
often involved in white collar crimes, such as illegal stock trading and bribery, and
sometimes run for public office.
Jao Pho.Organized crime group in Thailand. They are often involved in illegal political and
business activity.
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Gangsters from Thailand. They are involved in manufacturing and trafficking
methamphetamine.

What is Human Trafficking?

Human Trafficking is the illegal in human beings for the purposes of commercial sexual
Exploitation or forced labour: a modern-day form of slavery. It is the fastest growing criminal
industry in the world, and tied with the illegal arms industry as the second largest, after
the drug, trade. Human Trafficking is a crime against humanity. It further defined as an act of
recruiting, transporting, transferring, harbouring or receiving a person through a use of
force, coercion or other means, for the purpose of exploiting them. Every year, thousands
of men, women and children fall into the hands of traffickers, in their own countries and abroad.
Every country in the world is affected by trafficking, whether as a country of origin, transit or
destination for victims. UNODC, as guardian of the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) and the Protocols thereto, assists States in their
efforts to implement the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Person
(Trafficking in Persons Protocol).

What are the Elements of Human Trafficking?

On the basis of the definition given in the trafficking in persons protocol, t is evident
that trafficking in persons has three constituent elements;
The Act (What is done) Recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring, or receipt of persons
The Means (How it is done) Threat or use of force, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception,
abuse of power or vulnerability, or giving payments or benefits to a person in control of the
victim
The Purpose (Why it is done)For the purpose of exploitation, which include exploiting the
prostitution of others, sexual exploitation, forced labour, slavery or similar practices and
the removal of organs. To ascertain whether a particular circumstances constitutes trafficking in
persons, consider the definition of trafficking in the Trafficking in Persons Protocol and the
constituent elements of the offence, as defined by relevant domestic legislation.

What is Drug Trafficking?

Drug trafficking involves selling drugs and drug paraphernalia, whether is it local
exchange between a user and a dealer or a major international operation. Drug
trafficking a problem that affects every nation in the world and exists in many levels. Drug
trafficking is the commercial exchange of drugs and drug paraphernalia his include any
equipment used to manufacture illegal drugs or use them.

What are Cybercrimes?

Cybercrimes are generally defined as any type of illegal activity that makes use of the
Internet, a private or public network, or an in-house computer system. While many
forms of cybercrime revolve around the appropriation of proprietary information for
unauthorized use, other examples are focused more on a invasion of privacy. As a
growing problem around the world, many countries are beginning to implement laws and other
regulatory mechanisms in an attempt to minimize the incidence of cybercrime.
What is Terrorism?
1.The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political
purposes.
2. The state of fear and submission produced by terrorism for terrorization.
3. A terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.
Terrorism is the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion. At present, the
International community has been unable to formulate a university agreed, legally binding, and
criminal law definition of terrorism. Common definitions of terrorism refer only to those
violent acts which are intended to create fear (terror), are perpetrated for a religious,
political, or ideological goal, and deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants
(civilians). Some definitions also include acts of unlawful violence and war. This history of
terrorism organizations suggest that they do not select terrorism for its political
effectiveness. Individual terrorists tend to be motivated more by a desire for social
solidarity with other members of their organization than by political platforms or strategic
objectives, which are often murky and undefined.

What is Money Laundering?

Money Laundering is the process of creating the appearance that large amounts of
money obtained from serious crimes, such as drug trafficking, originated from a
legitimate source. It is a crime in many jurisdictions with varying definitions. It is a key
operation of the underground economy.
Who is the only Filipino Former President of the Interpol?
Jolly R. Bugarin was the Filipino President of the Interpol in 1980 –1984 after the term of Carl G.
Persson of Swede

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