The Australian Federal Police needed to show the scale and reality of the fight against organised crime and drug trafficking across the Pacific, a region where criminals exploit geography, maritime supply chains and modern technology to move illicit drugs and other illegal items. The challenge was to make a regional, multi-agency intelligence effort feel urgent and real, rather than abstract policy talk.

Laundry Lane produced Into the Storm: Pacific Unites in the Drug Fight, the latest instalment of the AFP’s Inside Pacific Policing docuseries. The episode centres on the Pacific Transnational Crime Network, the regional intelligence community that shares information, capability and expertise to detect, investigate and disrupt organised crime across borders. It’s built around one clear idea: it takes a network to break a network.