SECTIONS 15025-15029 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 15025-15029

15025. The Department of Justice shall seek to control and
eradicate organized crime in California by:
(a) Gathering, analyzing and storing intelligence pertaining to
organized crime.
(b) Providing this intelligence to local, state and federal law
enforcement units.
(c) Providing training and instruction to assist local and state
law enforcement personnel in recognizing and combating organized
crime.
(d) Providing a research resource of specialized equipment and
personnel to assist local, state, and federal agencies in combating
organized crime.
(e) Conducting continuing analyses and research of organized crime
in order to determine current and projected organized crime activity
in California.
(f) Initiating and participating in the prosecution of individuals
and groups involved in organized crime activities.

15026. It is the intent of the Legislature that the department
focus its investigative and prosecutive endeavors with regard to
organized crime in controlling crime which is of a conspiratorial and
organized nature and which seeks to supply illegal goods and
services such as narcotics, prostitution, loan sharking, gambling,
and other forms of vice to the public or seeks to conduct continuing
activities, a substantial portion of which are illegal, through
planning and coordination of individual efforts. The department shall
also investigate and prosecute organized criminal violations
involving intrusion into legitimate business activities by the use of
illegitimate methods, including, but not limited to, monopolization,
terrorism, extortion, and tax evasion.

15027. The department's functions concerning organized crime shall
be divided among five programs as follows:
(a) Operations and training.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Long-range intelligence research.
(d) Investigation.
(e) Prosecution.

15028. The department shall annually report on its activities and
accomplishments to the Legislature and to federal, state, and local
law enforcement agencies, as well as to other interested groups. The
first report to the Legislature shall be made no later than July 1,
1972, and shall specify the way in which the department's
organization and positions relate to suppressing organized crime and
its accomplishments as of that date.

15029. (a) The Crack Down Task Force Program is hereby created
within the Department of Justice with responsibility for
establishing, conducting, supporting, and coordinating crack down
task forces composed of state and local law enforcement agencies
targeting the investigation and apprehension of the Colombian
cartel-street gang cocaine networks.
(b) The department shall coordinate all investigations undertaken
by task forces operating under the Crack Down Task Force Program with
all local agencies having law enforcement responsibilities within
the jurisdictions involved. The department shall also solicit
participation by appropriate federal agencies with task force
investigations whenever possible.
The department's Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement, Bureau of
Forensic Services, and Bureau of Investigations shall provide
staffing and logistical support for the crackdown task forces,
supplying special agents, criminal intelligence analysts, forensic
experts, financial auditors, equipment, and funding to the task
forces as needed.
(c) Local law enforcement agencies participating in the Crack Down
Task Force Program shall be reimbursed by the department for
personnel overtime costs and equipment or supplies required for task
force activities.