The Hong Kong Police Force will host the first Transnational Organized Crime Conference (TOCC) targeting more than one major crime category in the Asia-Pacific Region, according to Hong Kong government gazette on Saturday.
Expected to become one of the biggest international law enforcement congresses in recent years and drawing some 480 delegates from around 30 countries and regions, the TOCC will be held from March 18 to 21, 2002.
It will address four major areas of transnational criminal activities, i.e., cyber crime, money laundering, changing trends in narcotic crime and triads.
Notable keynote speakers at the conference would include Director of Criminal Investigation Department, Ministry of Public Security of China, Zhang Xin-feng; Secretary-General of INTERPOL, Ronald Noble, and Assistant Director of Federal Bureau of Investigations, USA., Ronald L. Iden.
(Xinhua News Agency March 9, 2002)