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Organised crime is ‘as bad as terrorism’
EXCLUSIVE
ELLEN WHINNETT
Warning from police
AUSTRALIA needs to take the threat of organised crime as seriously as terrorism and treat it as a national security issue.
Nigel Ryan, assistant commissioner of the Australian Federal Police’s crime command, said organised crime was responsible for multiple deaths, serious assaults and undermining the nation’s economy, yet was treated by the public with “casual indifference’’.
Mr Ryan said the community should be “extremely concerned’’ about the impact of organised crime.
“We have done an extremely good job in terms of countering terrorism in this country and we have been extremely lucky, we have been well-protected by law enforcement in that regard,’’ he said.
“But if you look at organised crime, there’s a real casual indifference to the impact.
“There are people being assaulted, there are people being murdered, our economy is being compromised, our supply chain’s compromised and people don’t seem to give it much of a concern, which is concerning in its own right.’’
Terrorism in Australia is targeted by federal, state and territory police working together, and backed up by the nation’s intelligence agencies.
By contrast, state, territory and the federal police often work independently when tackling organised crime figures or specific syndicates.
Last month, organised crime took a heavy hit when 4500 state, territory and federal police officers raided homes across the country, arresting almost 300 people on a range of drug-trafficking and money-laundering offences.
The charges came as part of the three-year AFP-led investigation known as Operation Ironside, in which police secretly tracked the communications of alleged organised crime figures in Australia and overseas through the use of a Trojan horse encrypted app known as AN0M.
Mr Ryan, who led Operation Ironside, said the investigation had given police greater insight into the sheer scale of organised crime in Australia, including the activities of bikies, the Mafia, ethnic crime gangs, corrupt figures in the nation’s supply chains and international drug-trafficking syndicates.
“People are quite rightly fearful of terrorism but I think we should be equally fearful of the impact of organised crime because of what it is doing in our communities,’’ Mr Ryan said. “People are being assaulted, people are being killed, the legitimate economy is being affected and our supply chain is being compromised.
“I really think it’s time the community should look at organised crime as a national security issue in its own right as we would with terrorism.
“My concern is really about protecting the community … making sure that police are doing their very best with what we have in a collaborative manner so we can put as much pressure on the criminal environment as we can.’’
Police would now focus on bringing to justice crime figures who were living offshore, he said.