Abstract
In order to answer the fundamental question of what types of actions are considered as amounting to transnational organised crime (TOC), the Europol Commission attempted to give an official definition in a report in December 2001. Indeed, it gave some guidelines to understand what characteristics needed to be reunited in order to amount to TOC and a list of eleven possible characteristics. Provided that six of these were present, including four specific requirements, this definition would be satisfied. In addition, it also has to involve the participation of different EU countries through its process. In a report from 2002, Europol evaluated the areas of crime which were expected to represent organized crime in the future, drug trafficking, illegal immigration, trafficking in human beings and various types of financial crimes. Indeed, the UK is one of the countries which was the most affected by TOC and more particularly by drug trafficking and sex trafficking.
