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A typical disorganised crime syndicate is based in and around one major city or one country. However, in recent years, many groups have chosen to outsource some of their work to countries beyond their normal territory. This is because in third world countries, the labour and resources are much less expensive. Also, business trips to Acapulco or Torremelinos are excellent for morale. It can be difficult for crimelords to trust gang members who live out of easy leg-breaking reach, but the economic benefits are clear to see.

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  • Disorganised crime
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  • A typical disorganised crime syndicate is based in and around one major city or one country. However, in recent years, many groups have chosen to outsource some of their work to countries beyond their normal territory. This is because in third world countries, the labour and resources are much less expensive. Also, business trips to Acapulco or Torremelinos are excellent for morale. It can be difficult for crimelords to trust gang members who live out of easy leg-breaking reach, but the economic benefits are clear to see.
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  • A typical disorganised crime syndicate is based in and around one major city or one country. However, in recent years, many groups have chosen to outsource some of their work to countries beyond their normal territory. This is because in third world countries, the labour and resources are much less expensive. Also, business trips to Acapulco or Torremelinos are excellent for morale. It can be difficult for crimelords to trust gang members who live out of easy leg-breaking reach, but the economic benefits are clear to see. A gang is usually run by one charismatic leader, whose often contradictary orders are carried out to the letter. Below this leader there are a succession of vice presidents and deputies who are delegated with the day-to-day activities of the gang. However, their tasks often overlap and with poor communication between the vice presidents, the deputies and each of their assistants and personal secretaries, alongside their team leaders, project managers and departmental co-ordinators, mistakes do happen. For example, the vice president for contract killing might arrange to rub out a local wise guy, not realising that the blackmailing team had been planning to extort some money off him later in the week. This brings the accounts department into the equation, as they then can no longer supply the ready dough to the gambling unit for betting on the Serbian Basketball League playoff final that they had so carefully rigged. Such sequences of failure do not make their leader happy, so it's a good job that he can never work out which middle manager should take the blame. A syndicate will typically exhibit a controlling influence over their local governors, police force and judiciary. However, they have to remember to send thank you letters when favours are done. Many disorganised criminals overlook the importance of maintaining good working relationships and this can lead to the development of a toxic atmosphere between the organisation and it external stakeholders. Inevitably, such situations end up with influential gang members getting arrested on some spurious charge, simply because they forgot to invite the local police chief to their Christmas party.
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