Criminal Intelligence Service Canada leads the way in combating organized and serious crime in Canada through the use of an integrated and proactive approach in producing and sharing criminal intelligence. To assist this ongoing effort, CISC promotes and encourages the development of meaningful partnerships between members of the Canadian law enforcement community. These partnerships allow law enforcement to gather and share information and develop strategies to detect, reduce and prevent organized and serious crime in Canada. With approximately 380 member agencies, CISC is the Canadian network with the contacts to gather and disseminate criminal intelligence at the local, regional and national levels. 

CISC recognizes that law enforcement can not operate in isolation but must also work with the business and academic communities and the general public in order to achieve its goals. It is this combined, cooperative effort that is the most effective weapon we have against organized crime.

In Canada, organized criminal activity has increasingly international connections. Large and small communities across the country continue to be negatively affected by the subtle effects of organized criminal activities. As well, this criminal activity has serious and complex social and economic ramifications that impacts on both regional and national levels.

As demonstrated within this report, CISC embraces the integrated intelligencesharing concept. This concept enables the law enforcement community to benefit from strategic, intelligence-led decision making. The major intent of the CISC 2003 Annual Report on Organized Crime in Canada is to provide the public with current, relevant information on key organized crime groups and issues across the country.

It is hoped that the threat posed by organized crime, as demonstrated in this report, encourages the continuing cooperation between law enforcement and the public in our mutual effort to combat organized crime.

CISC sincerely thanks the Provincial Bureaux and all CISC partner agencies for their valuable contributions to this report.