ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the policing of organised crime, including significant national and national institutional developments and transformations. This encompasses the transnational dimension, explored through fieldwork conducted at transnational policing hubs. Trends towards the centralisation of intelligence and police agencies are outlined, while drawing attention to ongoing expansions in police powers, surveillance, and intelligence capabilities. It is argued that intelligence processes operate as an apparatus of production, further reifying the problem as described in earlier parts of the book. It is also shown how private sector management and public administration philosophies have converged, and how these are used to establish and preserve the policing enterprise. Situated in the context of the political and administrative demands thrust upon police in a broader social context of neoliberalism, this examination raises important questions about notions of accountability and transparency, exposing how governments and law enforcement agencies attest to effectiveness and value for money in policing organised crime, and across borders.
