1948 the Convention establishing the Customs Co-operation Council (CCC) was signed in Brussels and effective from 1952. Now the WCO, it is the global centre of customs expertise and plays a leading ro [..]

Created by the Maastricht Treaty in 1993 as the law enforcement agency of the European Union that handles criminal intelligence and combating serious international organised crime by means of cooperat [..]

International Criminal Police Organization dates from 1923 is an intergovernmental organization facilitating international police cooperation and has a membership of 190 countries (as of 2015). The or [..]

Founded in 1976 as the joint wildlife trade-monitoring programme of WWF-World Wide Fund for Nature and IUCN-The World Conservation Union, TRAFFIC is an international network, with culturally diverse s [..]

These fall into two broad types. First, the intelligence-led, multi-agency operation targeting a known criminal activity being conducted by a number of individuals with a network which spans a number [..]