The Organized Crime Agency of British Columbia (March 11, 1999– April 1, 2004) was a Crown corporation created as a 'Designated Policing and Law Enforcement Unit' regulated by the British Columbia Police Act and the British Columbia Emergency Program Act. In October 1998, following the recommendations of the Independent Review Committee on Organized Crime, chaired by Stephen Owen, Attorney General Ujjal Dosanjh announced plans for Organized Crime Agency to replace the 'Coordinated Law Enforcement Unit' (CLEU) which was found by the Owen Report to be not sufficiently equipped, mandated, or able to cope with the growing sophistication and diversity of organized crime.
Its mandate is "to facilitate the disruption and suppression of organized crime which affects all British Columbians." Effective April 1, 2004 the agency was integrated with their Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) counterparts to create the federal-led Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit - British Columbia which also created the Integrated Gang Task Force (IGTF).
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