ABSTRACT
For the increasingly multicultural decades starting in 2000 A.D., skills and knowledge and training ideas and techniques from both the social sciences and humanities will be needed in planning cross-cultural (XC) training programs for law enforcement personnel. This supplement is required because the cultural factors of present training programs do not address the full range of cultural factors police are confronted with during Asian crime investigation. Or, to put the point in another way, it may be heuristically useful from time to time to remind ourselves that the human-to-human situations Asian organized-crime investigators confront in their everyday investigations are (at least) bicultural, not monocultural. However, almost all in-service training programs are monocultural in planning and in instruction. (Regional and the annual conference on Asian crime co-sponsored by the International Association Asian Crime Investigators, and others illustrate partial exceptions.)
