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Commercial Crime
Overview The branch provides specialized services, such as pursuing legislative amendments, monitoring high-risk investigations, developing and delivering in-service training, and initiating special analytical projects. Commercial Crime Branch participates in Interpol, G-8, and other ad hoc conferences and working groups. Moreover, in cooperation with the RCMP’s Learning and Development Branch, the branch administers and offers the Commercial Crime Investigator’s course, and the Counterfeit Investigative Techniques course. The program’s objective is to reduce and prevent white-collar crime. This includes fraud, false pretenses, misappropriation of funds, theft, breach of trust, secret commissions, offences against the Government of Canada, corruption of public officials, offences relating to property rights, tax fraud, the insolvency process, securities fraud, identity theft/fraud and counterfeiting on an interprovincial, national and international scale. Commercial Crime investigators are responsible for the gathering of evidence, interviewing of witnesses and suspects, compiling court briefs and reports, recommending necessary courses of action, and assisting with the presentation of evidence and the prosecution of white-collar crime offenders before the courts. Specialized duties Commercial Crime & Major Fraud Counterfeiting Security Fraud Information Centre Federal Statute Enforcement Major investigative work is done within the Government of Canada on fraud, breach of trust and corruption. National Economic Profiling Service (NEPS) The information in each profile is derived from publicly available information which includes Lexis Nexis, StockWatch, the Internet, Consumer Sentinel, among others. Other Agencies Key partners include Public Safety Canada, the Department of Justice, the Bank of Canada and other federal departments and agencies, provincial and municipal police forces, such as the Ontario Provincial Police & Toronto Police Service, the Canadian Association of Internet Providers, the Cross Border Crime Forum, the National Mass Marketing Crime Prevention Forum, the U.S. Secret Service, the Federal Trade Commission, the FBI, Interpol, and many others. |
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