http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1209442004
JOHN INNES
"SCOTLAND is to get the UK's first dedicated institute to fight organised crime, it emerged yesterday, with a new campus to be built at the site of the former Gartcosh steel mill in Lanarkshire.
The Scottish Drugs Enforcement Agency, which is leading the project, believes it would help the fight against organised crime to bring all similar agencies together at the same site.
Graeme Pearson, director of the agency, said that concentrating expertise in a single place would make combating organised crime more effective. Mr Pearson said: 'We�ll bring together all the experts from the different departments and organisations onto one site.
'They have similar targets; they gather together the intelligence they have on these targets and we�re able more effectively to answer the threat that serious and organised crime presents in Scotland.'
Mr Pearson said the move would send a message to crime bosses. "
