No14 Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement Inquiry into criminal activity and law enforcement during the COVID-19 pandemic

A wide range of likely impacts from increased risks of domestic violence due to economic stress and ‘stay at home’ public health orders, business failure, police and emergency service fatigue, higher risks of infection in prisons amongst others are some of the many challenges wrought by COVID-19. This submission focuses on two issues in relation to transnational and serious organised crime and the impact of COVID-19 on underground online illicit markets and the convergence of organised crime groups across the Indo-Pacific region.