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In the practice, as a way of communications within criminals, it is normally used a system of
communication known as a Darknet. This sort of network offers a certain amount of anonymity
which makes it suitable to criminals and terrorists.

It’s not a rare case that the bad guys exchange the information, make a deal or even organize
their activities through such a communication channel.

Very often it’s a connection between an operational and strategic level of an organized crime
group and something that criminals at tactical level regularly use for their deals.

As a link between the highest and the lowest level of an organized crime hierarchy, the tactical
level could be seen as a point of vital importance in its network. Once the tactical level is shut
down, there is no information exchange between an operational and strategic level.

The strategic level of responsibility

Finally, the strategic level of responsibility is a stage with the highest level of responsibility within
an organized crime group. It’s a level at which criminals develop a plan, make decisions and
issue orders about the future actions.

The power of this level of responsibility could be in hands of one person only or shared amongst
several of them.

Even if a criminal justice arrest the head, there would always be his fellows to coordinate the
rest of their criminal group.

Here, we would give a brief illustration how these three levels of reasonability work. A graphical
representation is given in Figure 1.

Organized crime

Operational level Tactical level Strategic level

Figure 1. The levels of responsibility within an organized crime group

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