Organized Crime Agency of British Columbia

Law enforcement agency Organized Crime Agency of British ColumbiaAbbreviationOCABCAgency overviewFormedMarch 11, 1999Superseding agencyCombined Forces Special Enforcement Unit - British ColumbiaJurisdictional structureOperations jurisdictionBritish Columbia, CanadaConstituting instrumentBC Police ActGeneral natureCivilian policeWebsitewww.ocabc.org The Organized Crime Agency of British Columbia (OCABC) is a Designated Policing and Law Enforcement Unit under the Police Act (B.C.) established on March 11, 1999. Similar to the structure and authority of municipal police departments in British Columbia, OCABC is an independent policing agency. The specific mandate of the OCABC is to facilitate the disruption and suppression of organized crime. The OCABC was created in direct response to the recommendations of the report of the Organized Crime Independent Review Committee, chaired by Stephen Owen ("The Owen Report", September 15, 1998). The agency was incorporated as a society in March 1999 under the BC Police Act to replace its forerunner, the Coordinated Law Enforcement Unit (CLEU). The Owen Report found CLEU to be "… not sufficiently equipped, mandated or able to cope with the grow