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INVESTIGATION BRANCH 4INVESTIGATION BRANCH 4 (IB/4)BY MIKE BISHOP, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OFOPERATIONS 4Anyone who has read this publication regularly over the last few yearscannot help but have noticed the frequency with which the terms "busy" and"heavy workload" appear throughout the entire text. This year is no exception.A glance at the burgeoning corruption report statistics since 1997 putsthis phenomenon firmly into perspective. Simply put, we have been investigatingmore cases, arresting more offenders and initiating more prosecutions.Obviously, this places considerable strain on investigative resources, humanand otherwise, in Investigation Branches 1, 2 and 3. Slightly less obvious isthe effect of all this additional investigative effort on my own Branch. In fact,i n c reased operational activity translates, pro-rata, to increased demands on