The Organised Crime Task Force was announced by the secretary of state in September 2000.

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David Ford, justice minister and chair of the Organised Crime Task Force, accompanied officers during the operation.

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There has been a shift in personnel both at the level of the Enron Task Force--part of the bigger white collar crime task force--and at higher levels of the Justice Department.

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But the police and city officials have cited that fact as evidence of an organised crime network, and since 1992 the task force has been arresting peddlers on more serious criminal charges.

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Since April 2001, its multi-agency task force has led raids to disrupt more than a dozen organised crime groups, resulting in almost 70 arrests.

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