ABSTRACT
International police cooperation is an increasingly crucial approach to fighting transnational crime, particularly in light of the growing threats to national and international security posed by transnational organized crime. While data, information and resources are abundant in these areas, analysis of law enforcement practices is much less common, specifically as it pertains to collaboration between foreign law enforcement agencies. One way of identifying the limits of existing law enforcement approaches to combating transnational crime is to scrutinize criminal investigations that span two or more countries, commonly known as international task force cases. Following this logic, there are three sets of factors that can guide the evaluation of existing police cooperation mechanisms.
