RE: New National Security Pillar30 Dec 2025 12:11
The“whole-of-society security” framing is basically built for exactly that kind of linkage: serious organised crime (SOC) ↔ illicit finance ↔ terrorism / hostile-state threats, with the same underlying enabler: joining up fragments of intelligence that sit in different places (police reports, border seizures, SARs/AML data, comms data, company registries, sanctions lists, travel, OSINT).
How the linkage works in practice (at a high level)
Think of it as three layers that can be fused:
Operational policing intelligence (ground truth)
-Arrests, interviews, informant reporting, phone downloads, vehicle stops
-Patterns: routes, handlers, meeting points, logistics nodes, recurring associates
Financial intelligence (follow the money)
-Bank alerts and suspicious activity reporting, account networks, mule activity, cash businesses
-Patterns: layering routes, front companies, trade anomalies, cross-border value transfer
National security intelligence (threat context)
-Counter-terrorism leads, hostile state actor flags, procurement/sanctions-evasion indicators, influence operations
-Patterns: links to sanctioned entities, dual-use goods, facilitators who service multiple threat types
The “whole of society” angle is: you don’t solve the problem inside one silo. You need lawful, governed mechanisms to connect signals across them.I
n other words, don't think of policing as solely domestic - in todays world there are links across all areas that can be used by hostile states as well as your domestic criminal