SEC337e: It Deserves Our Continued Strong Support to Weave an Even More: Security and Technology Assignment, SUSS, Singapore

Question 1

“It deserves our continued strong support to weave an even more comprehensive network. If nothing else, this will serve our own interests to become more capable in dealing with crime and terrorism.”

– Mrs. Josephine Teo, Minister for Manpower and Second Minister for Home Affairs, Opening Ceremony of Interpol World 2019, Singapore

A complicated relationship exists between organized crime groups and terrorist organizations (OCT). Terrorist organizations lacking financial supports cannot survive for long. However, organized crime groups help to sustain financial support by working in tandem with the terrorist for financial gains.

Develop the relationship between OCT and technology in the age of post-industrial information age. In your answer, you are to focus on OCT’s current and emerging technology-induced criminal activities and terror attacks. You are to provide examples to support your answer.