Inter-organisational Relationships Addressing Transnational Criminality: Suggested Benchmarks

Intelligence and law enforcement inter-organisational relationship policy and practice benchmarks arising from case studies of Denmark, Finland and New Zealand

author Richard Shortt
journal EJPS (ISSN: 2034-760X)
volume Volume 4
issue Issue 3
section Articles
date of publication May 5, 2017
language English
pagina 299
keywords practice, Finland, New Zealand, coopera- tion, intelligence, collaboration, law enforcement, Denmark, coordination, policy
abstract

Following over a decade of focus on terrorism and transnational criminality, how have three ‘intermediate capacity’ countries (Denmark, Finland and New Zealand) structured their intelligence and law enforcement inter-organisational relationships to respond to such wicked problems? This article presents the results of case studies regarding Denmark, Finland and New Zealand that examined the inter-organisational arrangements between the countries intelligence and law enforcement agencies. The case studies used publicly available secondary sources from the period 1 January 2007–31 December 2012 to obtain data for analysis. The data was analysed using research that had established the types of inter-organisational relationships organisations can have to determine the relationships occurring in each of the countries. The results of the case studies establish that the three countries are committed to a variety of cooperative, coordinated and collaborative relationships.