Actually the European Union has been immensely successful in breaking open international crime rings that now run right across, run riot right across Europe.

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The WWF said law enforcement efforts were increasing, but were not sufficient to stop the smuggling and sale of their horns by organised crime rings.

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Interpol also will help those authorities build up their infrastructure and target enforcement actions against crime rings that make and sell fake drugs, and also divert medication illegally to countries where it's not approved.

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But the pot business, with a structure less like typical crime rings and closer to that of the Internet--lots of little nodes (in this case, producers) feeding a loosely organized hierarchy--will be difficult to shut down.

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As a result, one thrust of the program will be to try to more quickly spot new trends in which drugs are being counterfeited, where the crime rings are based and where they are distributing fake medicines, Lechleiter said.

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Interpol's newly created Pharmaceutical Crime Program aims to help health agencies, police and customs bureaus in countries around the globe stem the supply of bogus brand-name and generic medicines, as well as identify and dismantle the organized crime rings distributing them.

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As for Central America, crime and kidnapping rings are chasing out foreign investment, the great hope of so many jobless poor.

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The Home Office says these powers are needed to help the police and intelligence services fight organised crime, terrorist networks and paedophile rings.

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