The Public Safety Foundation
Writing in today’s Telegraph, our Founder sets out how organised criminals have found an easy foothold in the UK, where regulation is lax and enforcement nearly non-existent:
“From begging to thefts from shops, the world of organised crime offers a wealth of voluntary or compelled opportunities that the local Job Centre’s work coach can’t hope to match.
You might reasonably ask what the police, HMRC and the National Crime Agency are doing to deal with this problem. The answer is, unfortunately, very little. Even if the necessary capacity existed to confront the issue of organised crime, what would be the consequences?
If we aren’t going to build prisons to punish and incapacitate criminals, and if we aren’t going to get serious about deporting the foreign nationals engaging in this gross criminality, then it’s a lot like pouring water into a leaking bucket.
If the government was serious about tackling such flagrant money-laundering, we’d see an expansion in the state’s capacity to confront it and in measures to stop it.”
