New Challenges, Criminal, Organized Crime, global organized, human trafficking

The increasing cases of the organized crime such as money laundering, smuggling, drug trafficking, human trafficking and contract killings and kidnapping, etc., it has become very difficult for the investigating officer to investigate the organized crime. In today’s scenario, the investigating officer is facing a new challenges such as budgetary constraints, lack of public cooperation, forensic science, political interference, transfer of police officer during investigation, role of media during investigation, duty of the police officers is overburdened with maintaining order & investigation, and witness turns hostile, etc. Even though, there are a lot of challenges in criminal investigation of organized crime. As per the global organized crime index 2023, the organized crime is increasing continuously with 83% of the world’s population living in conditions of high criminality. In this article, we have tried to explain about the organized crime and told about the procedure of the investigation and also tried explain the challenges faced during investigation by investigating officer.