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Message from the Director General
Criminal Intelligence Service Canada
Sandra Conlin
CISC, as the voice of the Canadian criminal intelligence community, represents a truly integrated and co-operative effort within the law enforcement community.
The combined efforts of CISC’s members enable us to produce strategic products and services which comprehensively assess the threat of organized and serious crime in Canada.The resulting strategic assessments provide the foundation for the development of more effective policy and strategies to reduce the negative effects of crime on our communities.
This report is part of Criminal Intelligence Service Canada’s commitment to inform Canadians on significant organized and serious crime activities across the country and their negative effects on our communities.
Organized crime affects each and every Canadian.We feel its effects through higher insurance costs, increased incidents of fraud against individuals and businesses, deteriorating health caused by the illicit drug trade, or fear for our safety and security in our neighborhoods and on our streets.
As clearly illustrated in this year’s report, the nature of organized crime groups is continuously evolving.These groups are no longer bound by a geographic location or ethnic origins. Criminal organizations are increasingly diverse and focused on multiple criminal activities.As such, the law enforcement community must also adapt in order to successfully disrupt and dismantle these organized crime groups and networks.
For this reason,we have restructured this year’s report to highlight organized crime activities and their negative social and economic impacts on our communities in all regions of Canada.We hope that you will find this information both useful and of interest.
In closing, I would also like to extend my sincere gratitude to all CISC members, bureaus and employees for their valuable contributions to this report.
Chief Superintendent Sandra Conlin
Director General, CISC
