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“our obligation is to provide strategic information to relevant policy makers to understand the extent of the threat”

“I do not think we have ever had such a clear set of recommendations as I am putting in front of you now”

“The Organised Crime Threat Assessment of 2022, for example, we briefed everybody in government and business who would listen”

“We have been briefing and engaging with people in the South African government and other governments for a long time”

“the Madlanga Commission has set an important, or set the bar high for what Commissions of Inquiry themselves can do in the context of this particular area”

“That may mean contracting in from outside investigators and expertise in particular areas of the system”

“the very long waiting times for ballistics in a country with such huge levels of gun violence is unacceptable”

“the specialist bodies that we are tasking to respond to organised crime in South Africa in fact lack the capacity to do that”

“my overall sense, from working in the sector for a long time, is that this kind of strategic and oversight body, the idea of oversight of what institutions do to respond to organised crime, is actually a key part of the story”

“it is very, very important to strengthen and establish the current institutions that you have while beginning the process of change”

“as I understand Chapter 9 of the Constitution, it is designed for institutions which protect democratic processes and the democratic polity”

“if there is no institution which has a mandate to review the formulation and implementation of organised crime and anti-corruption policy across all criminal justice bodies, then gaps, failures and criminal influence in different parts of a fragmented system can be identified too late or not at all”

“the body created to respond to it is separated and protected from both political and criminal influence including whether there is criminal influence within the legislature”

“any process to dissolve SPAC requires a two-thirds majority of all members of the assembly of the legislature as well as a public hearing before the Albanian Constitutional Court”

“the measures under this principle seek to correct that imbalance, so that upholding the law and protecting the administration of justice becomes a rational choice for those at risk, not their legal or moral duty”

“the measures that have been adopted by countries seek under this principle to overcome fragmentation without recreating vulnerability”

“if you can capture one organisation, one intelligence organisation, dealing with intelligence targeted at organised crime, you capture a particularly important part of the state”

“the division of intelligence between state agencies fragments the state's knowledge of organised crime”

“The conduct of officials, the experts concluded in different parts of that institution, tend to align.”

“In Albania, SPAC was essentially, as I understand it, a condition for admission of Albania into the EU”

“SPAC was essentially an institution created and then staffed by people brought in from the imperial power”

“the constitution, a point we will come to later, was amended to provide for a super majority to protect that institution”

“That is the establishment itself of the Independent Commission Against Corruption targeted outside of the police”

“may also fail when office bearers in other institutions or branches of government have power over its appointments or funding and exercises them to frustrate or impede corrective action”

“Infiltration may leave a public institution formally intact but incapable of self-correcting and restoring integrity”

“you have addressed in paragraph 36, Hong Kong's, Hong Kong China's regime of essentially unexplained wealth”

“He is currently serving as Undersecretary for Intelligence and Integration at the Secretariat of Justice and Public Security in a Brazilian state”

“with more than two decades of experience in intelligence, counter-narcotics, and transnational organised crime”

“He was previously the Chief of Staff at the Special Prosecution Office against Corruption and Organised Crime”

“who is head of International Relations, Transparency, and Legal Research at Albania's Special Court against Corruption and Organised Crime”

“he is the Assistant Director, Operations Branch 1 of the Independent Commission Against Corruption of Hong Kong, China”

“responsible for coordinating national strategies and policies aimed at preventing and combating drug trafficking, transnational organised crime, and related security threats”

“a distinguished Italian magistrate with a longstanding career dedicated to the fight against organised crime”

“we need to reduce criminal penetration in the state in order to tackle the enormous problem of organised crime”

“Where there is low penetration of the state, states have much greater ability to respond to organised crime”

“where there is criminal penetration of the state, states have much less ability to respond to organised crime”

“there is a direct correlation between the presence of state-embedded actors and the decline of resilience”

“those are two countries which I think you would argue are not necessarily well-functioning constitutional democracies”

“the table on 275, which outlines the most prominent gangs in the Western Cape, where they operate, what their markets are”

“Our belief is that by providing analysis and shining a light on the problem on a regular basis, in this case gangs within the Western Cape and the city of Cape Town, we draw policy attention, we put gangs, gang bosses and others under pressure”

“our objective is to provide independent, objective information and policy responses to the evolving and very challenging issue of organised crime”

“that helps us, I think, a point I want to emphasise later, to understand the enormous harm of illicit markets and organised crime for ordinary people”

“The frustration at the time, including my own, I was managing in the UN very big programmes responding to organised crime, was that success was so fleeting”

“partly, I believe, because there is an enormous need, not only in South Africa, but around the world, to analyse organised crime and understand it effectively”

“It is the single biggest independent think tank, if you like, on organised crime and illicit markets”

“Dr Shaw is here today to tell the Commission about the central themes that he drew out of that workshop”

“requires the Commission to enquire into... 'The adequacy of current legislation, policies, and institutional arrangements in preventing infiltration of the criminal justice system by organised crime.'”

“the chief investigator of the Commission, Dr Goss, and I had for some time been discussing how best to address paragraph 6”

“hostile, componential jealousy that will result in criminals walking free while the enforcers are fighting each other”

“prosecute corruption cases investigated by the Serious Corruption Investigation Unit of the DPCI, Independent Police Investigative Directorate and Anti-Corruption Units of the SAPS”