[Photo: FILE]Police investigators were shut out of direct access to key financial intelligence until 2024. This was revealed when police appeared before the Standing Committee on Economic Affairs to discuss the Fiji Financial Intelligence Unit’s 2024 Annual Report. Before that, financial intelligence was being passed to individual investigators or divisions. She says divisional directors also take responsibility for the Suspicious Transaction Reports and intelligence reports received from the FIU. The changes come after police acknowledged gaps in the 2024 system for receiving, sharing and acting on financial intelligence.