Transnational organised crime is estimated as having a budget twice larger than all military budgets combined. Worldwide corruption, associated with increased income distribution and governance influence, is estimated at 1 trillion per year (mainly including only bribery), while the world black market value is estimated at US$1.81 trillion. With the evolution of the IoT, wearable computers, autonomous vehicles, and brain-computer interfaces, cyber security will become increasingly important. Even though Hybrid Threats have dominated the security landscape for a long, they are currently repackaged and empowered by new tools, concepts and technologies targeting vulnerabilities in several domains in an unprecedented manner. The effectiveness of hybrid security and emerging crimes is undermining public trust in democratic institutions, challenging the core values of societies, gaining geopolitical influence and power, and affecting the decision-making capability are increasing. Hybrid actors including terrorist organisations could achieve the desired objectives without full escalation. Such ‘under the radar’ activities make it difficult to detect and design counteracts as they seem to have successfully eroded the benefits of physical state borderlines and boundaries.

Transnational organized criminal groups seek to exploit legitimate activities for criminal purposes. How they are reaping profit are becoming more creative. As organized crime groups join ever more complex networks spanning the globe, the crimes become increasingly transnational and the types of crime they can commit become diversified. New threats to global security are emerging, meaning that people can fall victim to organized crime in an increasing number of ways, in an increasing number of places.

The United Nations Conference of the Parties to its Convention on Transnational Organized Crime identified cybercrime, identity-related crimes, trafficking in cultural property, environmental crime, piracy, organ trafficking, and fraudulent medicine as new and emerging crimes of concern. The emergence of these new crime types gives rise to the need for law enforcement response to adapt its efforts and capacities accordingly.

Our programme has the above in focus and seeks to expose the participants to the emerging trend while equipping them with tools to diagnose, detect and counter or treat them.