GLOBAL COLLABORATION

THE KEY TO COMBATING TRANSNATIONAL CRIME

It was an honor to deliver the Keynote at the State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program hosted by the World Partnerships Organization. I am tremendously grateful for this opportunity to begin a working relationship and friendship with roughly 50 senior prosecutors and law enforcement leaders from around the world. During the conference, I got the unique opportunity to share details about how U.S. law enforcement agencies build long-term undercover operations, create undercover identities, infiltrate global criminal organizations, identify global money laundering techniques, and effectively prosecute those involved in the command and control of organized crime.

I also got the opportunity to better understand the significant obstacles that exist legally and politically in many of these countries that prevent well intended law enforcement officers from effectively combating organized crime and corruption. In the end, we all agree that finding ways to share information and law enforcement initiatives offers the best formula to combat transnational crime.

The Department of State’s foreign guests included law enforcement leaders from:

Argentina.....Chile.....Costa Rica.....Dominican Republic.....El Salvador?

Ecuador.....Guatemala.....Peru.....Honduras.....Panama.....Paraguay.....Bangladesh

Cambodia.....India.....Maldives.....Singapore.....Thailand.....Austria.....Bulgaria

UAE.....Croatia.....Estonia.....Germany.....Czech Republic.....Hungary.....Latvia

Serbia.....Netherlands.....Montenegro.....United Kingdom.....Algeria.....Oman

Tunisia.....Antigua & Barbuda.....Cameroon.....Ethiopia.....Ghana.....Jamaica

Burkina Faso.....Kenya.....Morocco.....Niger.....Nigeria.....South Africa

Senegal.....United Republic of Tanzania.....Democratic Republic of the Congo