http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6-2115813,00.html
Jeffrey Robinson
"A radical change has been overdue since the 1990s when organised criminal groups began increasingly to target Britain. Despite the presence of South American cocaine cartels, Nigerian fraud enterprises, Russian crime gangs, Turkish heroin traders and Asian and Balkan immigrant smugglers, more than half of local police forces told the Home Office, when asked for their plans to deal with the threat, that international organised crime was not a problem they saw. These forces were ignoring the fact that organised crime is global in nature, but decidedly local in impact. "