Organised Crime

The Irish government has welcomed the launch of an updated information sharing system across the EU to help fight terrorism and serious crime.

Plans to create new organised crime offences for Northern Ireland have gone out to consultation. Under the proposals, serious organised crime would be defined as "crime involving two or more people acting together with one of their main purposes or activities being the commission or facilitation of

Officials have begun a scoping exercise ahead of a review of legislation underpinning the prosecution of terrorism and organised crime offences in the non-jury Special Criminal Court. Justice Minister Helen McEntee yesterday told Senators that she is "fully committed to this review", which was one o

A multi-agency task force last year recovered around £1.4 million under confiscation orders, helped rescue dozens of potential victims of modern slavery, carried out thousands of drug seizures and disrupted more than 70 organised crime gangs. The latest Organised Crime Task Force (OCTF) annual