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Message from the Director General
Criminal Intelligence Service Canada
Acting Director General
Robert C. Fahlman
We all pay a price when organized crime is allowed to profit from illicit activities. We pay through increased taxes and higher prices on essential goods and services. We also pay through a diminished sense of safety and security in our homes and in our communities, and, of course, some pay directly as victims of crime.
In paying a price, we lose a measure of the freedom that is sacred to all Canadians.
Diminishing the cost that Canadians bear as a result of organized crime is one of the driving forces behind CISC. This is a task that presents a number of complex challenges to the Canadian law enforcement community. One such challenge is that criminal organizations increasingly operate within sophisticated networks that exploit technology to increase their profits while distancing themselves from their crimes.
However, just as we are faced with evolving threats, CISC itself continues to evolve by strengthening its partnerships, improving its technologies and developing new strategies to help law enforcement gain an advantage on organized crime.
CISC also continues to expand and improve its criminal intelligence knowledge base and its capacity to share this knowledge. This enables law enforcement to more effectively target criminal groups and to develop integrated enforcement actions that leverage the strengths of our member agencies.
The 2007 CISC Annual Report on Organized Crime in Canada represents CISC’s ongoing efforts to provide meaningful information to the public about the current state of organized crime and its effects on all communities throughout Canada.
