Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw says geopolitics is affecting policing.
Foreign governments are helping organised crime to flourish, with gangs’ ill-gotten gains contributing to geopolitical instability and threatening national security, according to Australia’s top cop.
“We cannot ignore that some countries are producing precursors at an eye-watering scale,” said Mr Kershaw, who did not identify the countries involved. Let’s not discount the psychological effect we have on organised crime when they know the Five Eyes is watching.“FELEG has achieved success but we can do better and we need to protect what is at stake – the safety of our citizens and institutions, democracy, the rule of law, our economies and our collective national security.”
Following the election of the Albanese government, the AFP has been shifted out of the Home Affairs Department and back to the Attorney-General’s Department., child exploitation, cybercrime and fraud, and transnational serious organised crime, or TSOC.“Contributing to this increase is the long shadow of organised crime and state aggression. For the AFP, geopolitics and regional instability continues to influence our strategic priorities,” Mr Kershaw said.
“State actors and citizens from some nations are using our countries at the expense of our sovereignty and economies.
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