Lee Brown to Lead International Anti-Crime Task Force

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LEE BROWN TO LEAD INTERNATIONAL ANTI-CRIME TASK FORCE

Lee P. Brown, a Rice professor of sociology
and the former U.S. “drug czar,” has been named to lead an
international anti-crime task force charged with forming alliances
between the public and private sectors to fight criminal activity.
The Conference of World Regions, a global, non-profit forum for
the discussion of public policy issues involving activities that
ignore national boundaries, announced today in Rotterdam, The
Netherlands, the creation of The Task Force on Civil Protection and
Public Safety and introduced Brown as the newly appointed
international chair.

The task force will bring together representatives from the
global criminal justice community, regional governments, and private
industry to address issues on criminal activity, such as illegal
drug trafficking, organized crime, terrorism, counterfeiting, money
laundering, extortion and crime-related violence.
As the former “drug czar,” Brown headed the White House Office
of National Drug Control Policy. He is now Rice’s Radoslav A.
Tsanoff Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences and
a Senior Institute Fellow at the James A. Baker III Institute for
Public Policy.

Brown is in The Netherlands today for the announcement. He will
return to Rice on Friday, May 17.
For more information about the task force or the Conference of
World Regions, call Hans Stoop, Rotterdam Police, Bureau of
Communications at 011-31-10-424-3035, or Anton van der Lande in
Brussels at 011-32-2-772-4736.

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