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- From: ndallen@r-node.gts.org (Nigel Allen)
- Subject: FBI to hold conference on Asian organized crime
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.085653.15711@r-node.gts.org>
- Organization: Echo Beach, Toronto
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:56:53 GMT
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- Here is a press release from the FBI.
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- FBI To Hold Conference on Asian Organized Crime
- To: National Desk
- Contact: FBI National Press Office, 202-324-3691
-
- WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- FBI Director William S. Sessions
- announced today that the FBI and the Las Vegas Metropolitan
- Police Department will host the largest conference in the world
- addressing Asian organized crime, the 15th Annual International Asian
- Organized Crime Conference, from March 28 to April 2, 1993, in Las
- Vegas, Nev.
- More than 1,000 law enforcement officers from throughout the
- world are expected to attend.
- The emergence of a significant Asian Organized Crime presence in
- the United States is rapidly changing the criminal threat facing
- domestic law enforcement. These organizations have displayed a
- onsiderable degree of violence in their criminal activities,
- routinely perpetrating crimes such as murder, extortion, kidnaping,
- gambling, prostitution, illegal narcotics, money laundering and home
- invasions. These are the types of crime problems that have to be
- addressed aggressively by law enforcement both in the United States
- and throughout the world.
- The conference is world renowned and comprised of representatives
- from national, federal, and local law enforcement agencies in 25
- countries. Various workshops will include: White-Collar
- Crime/Financial Crimes; Asian Gambling; Laboratory-Records Analysis;
- Immigrations -- Alien Smuggling; Special Operations and Planning;
- Home Invasions; and Computer Chip Theft. Task force approaches as
- well as other pertinent issues critical to addressing this rapidly
- escalating crime problem will be presented at this conference.
- Established in 1978 for the purpose of information sharing among
- law enforcement and revealing new trends in the Asian criminal
- enterprises, this year's theme is dedicated to a "Global Impact."
- The three major focuses of this conference are:
- -- Increase the awareness of law enforcement personnel to the
- Asian culture.
- -- Educate law enforcement on how to address the culture/customs
- of the criminal/victim.
- -- Continue to identify the increase in Asian Organized Crime
- and its "Global Impact."
- Members of the news media are invited to attend the conference and
- should contact Angela Bell, FBI National Press office, for further
- information and press packages by close of business Feb. 15, 1993.
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