Kleptomania drug trial: no benefit / Monstersandcritics.com, 14 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sdba
"US scientists said a small clinical trial has demonstrated no benefits from a medication used to treat kleptomania. However, Stanford University School of Medicine researchers said the results leave open the possibility some medications might be an effective treatment."

Two-year ASBO for mentally ill man / Hexham Courant, 30 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sdax
LYNDSEY WRIGHT
"A MENTALLY ill Tynedale man has been given a two-year anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) following a string of offences. At Tynedale Magistrates’ Court, Northumberland County Council successfully applied for a two-year ASBO. Northumberland County Council’s crime reduction and legal sections combined to apply for the ASBO after previously applying for an interim order.
Walsh – who has severe learning and communication difficulties – has a record of court appearances stretching back more than 20 years. Prosecution and defence solicitors have long recognised that Walsh needs professional help – with jail not being the right place for him to get that help."

The Effects of closed-circuit television on crime: meta-analysis of an English national quasi-experimental multi-site evaluation
Journal of Experimental Criminology, Volume 3, Number 1 / March, 2007, Pages 21-38
http://digbig.com/4sdaw
David P. Farrington, Martin Gill, Sam J. Waples and Javier Argomaniz [Sub required]

How important are interview methods and questionnaire designs in research on self-reported juvenile delinquency? An experimental comparison of Internet vs paper-and-pencil questionnaires and different definitions of the reference period
Journal of Experimental Criminology, Volume 3, Number 1 / March, 2007, Pages 39-64
http://digbig.com/4sdat
Sonia Lucia, Leslie Herrmann and Martin Killias [Sub required]

[Ghana] Forced marriages “scar the girls for life” / Accra Daily Mail, 31 March 2007
http://www.accra-mail.com/mailnews.asp?id=764
"Professor condemns pressure on young girls to marry
A Professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Dr Akosua Adomako Ampofo, has condemned the tendency by some Ghanaian parents to coerce their young female children into early marriages."

[USA] Guest-Worker Program Part of Government's Immigration Plan / Washington Post, 30 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sdac
Darryl Fears
"The Bush administration yesterday circulated a new plan for immigration reform that would create a guest-worker program for illegal immigrants currently in the country but would require them to return home and pay a large fine to gain permanent US residency."

Somalia tops list of countries where minorities most under threat / Minority Rights Group International, March 2007
http://www.minorityrights.org/
"Somalia is the world's most dangerous country for minority communities and has overtaken Iraq to top a global ranking of countries where minorities are most under threat."

State of the World’s Minorities 2007 / Minority Rights Group International, March 2007
PDF - http://www.minorityrights.org/admin/Download/pdf/SWM2007.pdf

[Taipei] Missing permits rock immigration agency / Taipei Times, 30 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4scyy
Max Hirsch
"'SUSPICIOUS': Multiple-entry permits that went missing from one of the new agency's offices led managers to suspend workers suspected of colluding with human traffickers
Just three months after its founding, the National Immigration Agency (NIA) yesterday was rocked by what the agency's deputy director said was the recent "suspicious" disappearance of sensitive documents amid speculation that human-trafficking rings have positioned moles in key posts throughout the agency."

EBSCO host Databases Deliver News and Full-Text Blog Content with Historical Archive from Newstex to Customers Worldwide / Newstext.com, 20 March 2007
PDF - http://www.newstex.com/company/press/EBSCO_distributes_Newstex_blogs.pdf
"Unique distribution agreement makes blog content available to academic libraries for the
first time.
EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and Newstex announced an alliance to deliver Newstex Content On Demand™ and Newstex Blogs On Demand™ via nearly 100 EBSCO databases to customers worldwide. As part of the distribution agreement, full-text blog content from premier Weblogs with historical archives in a wide variety of categories including art, career, economics, environment, finance, food, health, law, marketing, medical, technology, and many more will be made available in online aggregated databases for the first time.
Unlike existing Web-based blog aggregation services, Newstex actually licenses influential blog content directly from independent bloggers and then takes in each carefully selected blog feed in text format and uses its proprietary NewsRouter technology to scan it in real-time. The resulting blog feeds, news feeds, and historical archives are delivered to EBSCO for distribution to customers in applicable databases."

[USA] Thefts of and from Cars on Residential Streets and Driveways / US. Department of Justice. Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, February 2007
PDF - http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/files/ric/Publications/e0207158_web.pdf
Todd Keister
Problem-Oriented Guides for Police. Problem-Specific Guides Series. No. 46

Understanding Treatment for Adults and Juveniles Who Have Committed Sex Offenses /
Center for Sex Offender Management, November 2006
http://www.csom.org/pubs/treatment_brief.pdf

Predicting sexual aggression: the role of pornography in the context of general and specific risk factors
Aggressive Behavior, Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 104-117, 29 Dec 2006
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/114032871/ABSTRACT
Vanessa Vega, Neil M. Malamuth [Sub required]

Self-esteem, academic self-concept, and aggression at school
Aggressive Behavior, Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 130-136, 6 Feb 2007
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/114112139/ABSTRACT
Laramie D. Taylor, Pamela Davis-Kean, Oksana Malanchuk
"Results suggest that, in general, students with low self-concept in achievement domains are more likely to aggress at school than those with high self-concept. However, there is a small sample of youth who, when they receive contradictory information that threatens their reported self-concept, do aggress. Global self-esteem was not found to be predictive of aggression. These results are discussed in the context of recent debates on whether self-esteem is a predictor of aggression and the use of a more proximal vs. general self-measure in examining the self-esteem and aggression relation." [Sub required]

Bullies and victims in rural African American youth: behavioral characteristics and social network placement
Aggressive Behavior, Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 145-159, 6 Feb 2007
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/114112138/ABSTRACT
David B. Estell, Thomas W. Farmer, Beverley D. Cairns

The Inter-relations of mother and father attachment, self-esteem and aggression during late adolescence
Aggressive Behavior, Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 160-169, 8 Jan 2007
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/114042114/ABSTRACT
Rapson Gomez, Suzanne McLaren
"This study examined three models depicting the relations between mother and father attachment, self-esteem and aggression. Results showed that self-esteem had additive and mediation effects on both the father attachment-aggression and mother attachment-aggression relationships, and also moderated the mother attachment-aggression relation. These findings are discussed in terms of different models for the inter-relations of mother and father attachment, self-esteem and aggression in late adolescence." [Sub required]

NPIA unwrapped
Jane's Police Review, 28 March 2007
http://jpr.janes.com
"'Policing is facing huge challenges. It needs one centre to support it. We are that centre.' Peter Neyroud, chief executive of National Police Improvements Agency." [Sub required]

Database helps make court appearances less of a trial
Jane's Police Review, 28 March 2007
http://jpr.janes.com
"WITNESSES could be protected from barristers they find intimidating in court, thanks to an award-winning database." [Sub required]

Home Office renews its vow of cutting police paperwork
Jane's Police Review, 28 March 2007
http://jpr.janes.com
[Sub required]

Graveyard shifts endanger new recruits
Jane's Police Review, 28 March 2007
http://jpr.janes.com
"FORCES must do more at the early stages of an officer's career to ensure new recruits are aware of the health and safety implications of their working shifts, the police federation has warned. Paul Lewis, secretary of the Police Federation of England and Wales' health and safety committee, said student officers need to be made aware of the wear and tear shift patterns can cause. His comments follow an inquest into the death of a young female Lincolnshire Police officer who was killed in a car crash after falling asleep at the wheel on the way home from her first night shift." [Sub required]

Review does not keep PACE with reality
Jane's Police Review, 28 March 2007
http://jpr.janes.com
"A Home Office consultation paper on the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 'gets nowhere near making a case for major change', according to a leading expert on the legislation. Prof Michael Zander said he is 'extremely troubled' by the report's suggestion that the PACE codes of practice, which apply to police actions on investigating offen¡ces or charging offenders, could be replaced by statutory guidance." [Sub required]

DOUBLE JEOPARDY - JUSTICE FOR DUNLOP
Jane's Police Review, 27 March 2007
http://jpr.janes.com
"R v Dunlop 2006 created an English legal landmark when for the first time in eight hundred years a man was tried twice for the same crime. The case against William Dunlop was certainly a strong one, and to date it is the only double jeopardy case to successfully be approved for retrial by the director of public prosecutions, Ken Macdonald, since the Criminal Justice Act 2003 came into force. Part 10 of the Criminal Justice allows the DPP to order a retrial where there is 'new and compelling evidence'" [Sub required]

A New multi-culturalism
Jane's Police Review, 26 March 2007
http://jpr.janes.com/
"Ten years ago I wrote in an essay published in Police Journal, that 'A multi-cultural society can be policed only by a multi-cultural police service'. I noted that the percentage of the UK population from visible ethnic minorities was 5.5 per cent, according to the 1991 census." [Sub required]

Dutch ease rules for some Iraqi asylum seekers / Reuters, 30 March 2007
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30482848.htm
"The Dutch government decided on Friday to ease rules for giving asylum seekers from central and southern Iraq temporary residence due to the worsening security situation there, the Justice Ministry said."

[USA] Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking / US. Department of Health & Human Services, 26 March 2007
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/underagedrinking/

Population in Custody : MONTHLY TABLES : February 2007 : England and Wales / RDS, 30 March 2007
PDF - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/prisfeb07.pdf

A Rapid evidence assessment of the impact of mentoring on re-offending: a summary / RDS, 30 March 2007
PDF - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/rdsolr1107.pdf
Darrick Jolliffe ; David P. Farrington
Home Office Online Report 11/07

Single login swapped for older system / Public Servant Daily, 29 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4scys
"Government plans to offer citizens a single logon for all government services, have been scrapped. The single logon would have been available under the Government Connects programme, enabling secure interaction between central and local government and citizens. However, the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has decided to stop investment into the CGI Excelsior software, which would have provided the single logon. Instead, they have chosen to use the Cabinet Office's government gateway system, which is currently used as the authentication device for submitting online tax returns."

Is Your Patrol Car Computer Going to Kill You? : For some of you, the answer is 'yes.' / Officer.com, 25 March 2007
http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?id=35430&siteSection=20
JIM DONAHUE

Finding Hidden Compartments : The thermal imager is a tool to find concealed spaces / officer.com, 8 March 2007
http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?id=35233&siteSection=20
JONATHAN BASTIAN
"Thank goodness for stupid criminals. I mean, really, thank goodness! Think of all the easy arrests and great stories you have developed over the years because of stupid criminals. Sometimes it's the bank robber who drives away in his car, which has personalised tags based on his name. Other times, it's the guy who leaves his motel room key on the convenience store counter after he takes $50 from the open register. Or, it can be the drug addict that tells you he has been clean for months, but when he stands, a crack pipe and a dime-bag of marijuana fall out of his lap. Stupid criminals are job security."

Smoking, drinking and drug use among young people in England in 2006: headline figures : A survey carried out for The Information Centre for health and social care and the Home Office by the National Centre for Social Research and the National Foundation for Educational Research / NHS, March 2007
PDF - http://www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/smokedrinkdrug06/report/file

[Canada] Prescription heroin might dent the illegal drug trade / Vancouver Sun, 29 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4scyn
"While Insite, Vancouver's supervised injection site, continues to serve an important and necessary function, the evidence is mounting that what we really need is to provide prescription opiate and stimulant substitutes to heroin and cocaine/amphetamine addicts."

Inappropriate internet sites: citizens' attitudes about their computer skills and the need for training
International Journal of Police Science and Management, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, March 2007, p1-13
http://www.atypon-link.com/VAT/doi/abs/10.1350/ijps.2007.9.1.1
Sutham Cheurprakobkit, C. Wayne Johnston
"As part of a larger public relations and community service by a collaborative effort of the Midland, Texas Police Department and the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, this study examined the opinions of 425 citizens regarding their computer expertise in determining if inappropriate internet sites were being viewed by their children, and the need for training in this regard provided by the police department and the university. The findings supported the hypotheses that state that compared to parents who have no child using the internet, parents with internet-using children at home are more likely to discuss the dangers of the internet with their children, monitor their internet use, and have computer skills to check for the websites and chat rooms their children are in. Also, non-whites are found to be more likely than whites to want to attend internet training if provided. The study's findings are discussed and cautions for police agencies are included." [Sub required]

Are Finnish police racists? A critical analysis of police cadets' attitudes towards African immigrants in Finland
International Journal of Police Science and Management, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, March 2007, p14-35
http://www.atypon-link.com/VAT/doi/abs/10.1350/ijps.2007.9.1.14
Stephen Egharevba, John White [Sub required]

Occupational stress, coping and personality in the police: an SEM study
International Journal of Police Science and Management, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, March 2007, p36-50
http://www.atypon-link.com/VAT/doi/abs/10.1350/ijps.2007.9.1.36
Adriana Ortega, Sten-Olof Brenner, Phil Leather [Sub required]

Those who do big bad things also usually do little bad things: Identifying active serious offenders using offender self-selection
International Journal of Police Science and Management, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, March 2007, p66-79
http://www.atypon-link.com/VAT/doi/abs/10.1350/ijps.2007.9.1.66
Jason Roach
"Traditionally the identification and apprehension of active serious offenders has relied on information from the public, the targeting of ‘known’ offenders and current knowledge of offending patterns. More recently, the method of offender self-selection has been offered as an additional identification tool, where certain minor infractions have been found to be ‘triggers’ for uncovering serious criminality - self-selection because the individual has broken a law in the first place. This paper details a police operation - ‘Operation Visitor’ (focused on visitors to a young offenders' institute, to explore whether minor offences committed (either whilst at, or en route to the institution) can be used as trigger offences to indicate serious criminality. One-third of visitors caught offending had criminal histories, several considered serious active offenders." [Sub required]

Improving geocoding rates in preparation for crime data analysis
International Journal of Police Science and Management, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, March 2007, p80-92
http://www.atypon-link.com/VAT/doi/abs/10.1350/ijps.2007.9.1.80
Allan J. Brimicombe, Lily C. Brimicombe, Yang Li
"Problem-oriented policing requires quality analyses of patterns and trends in crime incidences. A common form of analysis is the identification of geographical clusters or ‘hot spots’. For such analyses, crime incident records must first be geocoded, that is, address-matched so as to have geographical co-ordinates attached to each record. The address fields in crime databases typically have omissions and inaccuracies whilst a good proportion of crimes occur at non-address locations. Consequently, geocoding can have an unacceptably low hit rate. We present and test an improved automated and consistent approach to batch geocoding of crime records that raises the hit rate by an additional 65 per cent to an overall rate of 91 per cent. This is based on an actual implementation for a UK police force." [Sub required]

Murder
International Journal of Police Science and Management, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, March 2007, p93-94
http://www.atypon-link.com/VAT/doi/abs/10.1350/ijps.2007.9.1.93
Maria Kaspersson [Sub required]

Wiltshire Police plan IT to deliver strategic performance improvement initiative / Public Technology, 27 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sctq
"Wiltshire Police Constabulary has chosen Actuate Performancesoft Views (Views) to facilitate its strategic performance improvement initiative. Wiltshire Constabulary is developing its Performance Management programme currently in line with the Policing Performance Assessment Framework (PPAF). This framework has been developed by the Home Office and requires UK Police Forces to measure operational effectiveness, satisfaction and organisational capability in line with the government’s desire to enhance policing accountability at a local and national level."

Private sector set to bankroll city police / icliverpool, 30 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sctm
Sam Lister
"MERSEYSIDE police are set to become the first force in the country to try to use private sector money to pay for new officers.
Chief Constable Bernard Hogan-Howe is in talks with Grosvenor to secure funding to help recruit an extra 200 officers in time for Capital of Culture."

[USA] Taser use under scrutiny / Baltimore Sun, 19 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sctj
Nick Shields and Josh Mitchell
"Baltimore County Councilman wants review of police stun-gun policies after fatality
The death of a mentally ill Baltimore County man as police attempted to subdue him with a Taser has revived a debate about the safety of the high-voltage stun guns and whether police may be too quick to deploy them."

HUMAN RIGHTS IN IRAN / AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE, March 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4sctc
Ari Fridman, Maxine Kaye

[USA] DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COUNTS : A 24-hour census of domestic violence shelters and services across the United States / NATIONAL NETWORK TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, March 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4scsy

Principles and Functional Requirements for Records in Electronic Office Environments
RecordKeeping, Winter 2007, 11-12
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/recordkeeping-winter-07.pdf
Adrian Cunningham
"The aim of the project is to produce globally harmonised principles and functional requirements for software used to create and manage digital records in office environments. There currently exist a number of jurisdiction-specific sets of functional requirements and software specifications, so the aim is to synthesise this existing work into requirements and guidelines that meet the needs of the international archival community and that will enable that community to speak with one voice to the global software industry."

[Australia] Migration, Australia, 2005-06 / Australian Bureau of Statistics, 29 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4scst
"This publication brings together statistics on international migration into and out of Australia, interstate migration within Australia and information on overseas-born residents of Australia. Australia's migration is described in the context of the Government's migration program and in comparison with international migration experienced by other countries."

[Australia] Criminal Courts, Australia, 2005-06 / Australian Bureau of Statistics, 28 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4scsq

New Crimes: Ill Treatment or Neglect / Police Oracle, 29 March 2007
http://www.policeoracle.com/news/detail.cfm?id=13052
"Carers who ill-treat or wilfully neglect a person lacking mental capacity will be committing a crime under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 from 1 April 2007.
The new offence will apply to anyone caring for a person who lacks capacity to make decisions for themselves, including family carers, healthcare and social care staff in hospital or care homes and those providing care in a person's home. Those protected by the new offence include people with learning disabilities, dementia, or brain injuries."

Crime Pays for Solihull Students / Police Oracle, 29 March 2007
http://www.policeoracle.com/news/detail.cfm?id=13053
"West Midlands Police is for the first time using money recovered through the Proceeds of Crime Act to help local school children discover a healthy high.
Money recovered through POCA – following successful drugs operations – is being used to pay for singer songwriter David Graham, a former 'Pop Idol' contestant, to deliver his award-winning 'Natural High' anti-drugs show to Year-Seven pupils at nine schools across the Solihull area this week (26 - 30 March). In addition, officers from local neighbourhood policing teams will conduct drugs awareness sessions."

The Sacramento Neighborhood Alcohol Prevention Project: Outcomes From a Community Prevention Trial
Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, Volume 68, Issue 2: March 2007
http://digbig.com/4scsk
Andrew J. Treno, Paul J. Gruenewald, Juliet P. Lee, Lillian G. Remer
"This article reports the results of the Sacramento Neighborhood Alcohol Prevention Project (SNAPP). SNAPP set as its goal the reduction of alcohol access, drinking, and related problems in two low-income, predominantly ethnic minority neighbourhoods, focusing on individuals between the ages 15 and 29, an age group identified with high rates of alcohol-involved problems.
Results from the Sacramento Neighborhood Alcohol Prevention Project demonstrate the effectiveness of neighborhood-based interventions in the reduction of alcohol-related problems such as assaults, motor vehicle crashes, and sale of alcohol to minors." [Sub required]

Sri Lanka complicit in child soldier recruitment: rights group / Yahoo! News, 29 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4scsf
Amal Jayasinghe
"Sri Lanka came under fresh attack on Thursday for failing to probe the recruitment of child soldiers as the government faced more allegations of abductions and extra-judicial killings.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) offered new evidence of state complicity in the forced recruitment of child soldiers by the "Karuna group", which is allied to security forces."

Sudan leader: No U.N. troops in Darfur / Yahoo! News, 28 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4scse
NADIA ABOU EL-MAGD
"UN chief Ban Ki-moon tried to persuade Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to accept UN peacekeepers in Darfur on Wednesday, hours after al-Bashir flatly rejected the deployment."

Somali chaos: Clans, Islamists, foreigners / International Relations and Security Network, 29 March 2007
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=17430
Abdurrahman Warsameh
"A date is set for a reconciliation congress, but a surge in violence and the chaos posed by clan power struggles, insurgent fighting and foreign meddling present serious challenges.
Heavy fighting around the Somali capital with has left 12 people killed and more than 20 others wounded. The fighting broke out on Thursday, as clan insurgents and Ethiopian troops attempted to take new positions in the capital."

[USA] The Characteristics of Unauthorized Immigrants in California, Los Angeles County, and the United States / Urban Institute, March 2007
PDF - http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411425_Characteristics_Immigrants.pdf
Karina Fortuny, Randy Capps, Jeffrey S. Passel
"This report hopes to fill some of the knowledge gaps in the current immigration debate by describing the unauthorised population nationally and in California and Los Angeles. Unauthorised immigrants numbered 2.45 million in California in 2004, representing almost one-quarter (24 percent) of the nation’s total (10.3 million). There are about 1 million unauthorised immigrants in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, one-tenth of the area’s population (10 million). The report presents findings about these populations, including their socio-economic characteristics, such as national origin, education, employment, and poverty."

The Collaborative State : How working together can transform public services / Demos, 29 March 2007
PDF - http://www.demos.co.uk/files/Collaborative%20State%20-%20web.pdf
Niamh Gallagher, Simon Parker
"Competition and choice have become the watchwords of public service reform over the past decade. But while these principles have delivered some important gains, they are not enough in isolation. Tight accountability and choice have often come at the expense of fragmenting the way that schools, hospitals and councils provide their services. Service improvement has come at the expense of the capacity to solve local people’s problems.
If we want to sustain improvements into the next decade, then we need a new generation of reform that builds on experiments with collaboration between both different parts of the public sector, and between institutions and the people they serve. Joined-up government, place-based policy making and co-production with citizens offer exciting new possibilities for creating flexible, dynamic and democratic public service organisations."

A Report on Offender Management in Hertfordshire : An inspection led by HM Inspectorate of Probation / HMI Probation, 29 March 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4scrk

A Report on Offender Management in Norfolk : An inspection led by HM Inspectorate of Probation / HMI Probation, 29 March 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4scrj

‘Not Locked up but Subject to Rules’ : An inquiry into managing offenders in Approved Premises (hostels) following the Panorama programme broadcast on 8 November 2006 / HMI Probation, March 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4scrh

Welsh Language Scheme : Prepared under the Welsh Language Act 1993 / HMI Probation, 12 March 2007
PDF - http://www.inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprobation/docs/Welsh_Language_Scheme_for_H1.pdf?view=Binary

Cynllun Iaith Gymraeg : Paratowyd o dan Ddeddf yr Iaith Gymraeg 1993 / Arolygiaeth Prawf EM, 12 March 2007
PDF - http://www.inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprobation/docs/Welsh_Language_Scheme_for_H2.pdf?view=Binary

Beyond the call : A thematic inspection of police contact centres’ contribution to incident management / HMIC, 29 March 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4scrf

Beyond the call : A thematic inspection of police contact centres’ contribution to incident management : Summary / HMIC, 29 March 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4scre

Handling of Human Intelligence Sources : Inspection of HM Revenue & Customs/ HMIC, 27 March 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4scra
HMI Denis O’Connor

Report on an unannounced full follow-up inspection of HMP Wealstun : 6–10 November 2006 : by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons / HMI Prisons, 29 March 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4scqq

The Treatment of Asylum Seekers : Tenth Report of Session 2006–07 : Volume I – Report and formal minutes / TSO, 30 March 2007
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200607/jtselect/jtrights/81/81i.pdf
House of Lords
House of Commons
Joint Committee on Human Rights
HL Paper 81-I
HC 60-I

Machinery of Government: Security and Counter–Terrorism, and the Criminal Justice System / Cabinet Office, 29 March 2007
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/reports/government_changes/index.asp

Re-offending of adults: results from the 2004 cohort / RDS, 29 March 2007
PDF - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/hosb0607.pdf
Jack Cunliffe ; Adrian Shepherd
Home Office Statistical Bulletin 06/07

Sociable therapy / Guardian, 29 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sckf
Marc Leverton
"Reports on an evening for recovering addicts where cards, coffee and sympathetic company are a welcome diversion from the temptation of drugs and alcohol."

Drug Interventions Record (DIR) / Home Office, 28 March 2007
http://www.drugs.gov.uk/drug-interventions-programme/guidance/DIR/
"This page provides information and reference materials to accompany the introduction of the revised suite of Drug Interventions Record (DIR) forms, which will be used from 1 April 2007."

[Canada] Comparing the Perceived Seriousness and Actual Costs of Substance Abuse in Canada: Analysis drawn from the 2004 Canadian Addiction Survey / Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, 2006
PDF - http://digbig.com/4sckc
Thomas, G.B., & Davis, C.G.

[Australia] Illicit drug offences make-up 17% of defendants in Higher Courts: ABS / Australian Bureau of Statistics, 28 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sckb
"Illicit drug offences made up 17% of Higher Court defendants during 2005-06, an increase from five years ago."

[New Zealand] Police want to tell drug users' bosses / New Zealand Herald, 29 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4scjy
Elizabeth Binning

[USA] State Estimates of Substance Use from the 2004-2005 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health / SAMHSA, 2 March 2007
http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k5state/toc.cfm

'Lost Canadians' could number as high as 200,000 / Canada.com, 27 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4schk
Elizabeth Thompson
"There are likely tens of thousand of people who may have inadvertently lost their Canadian citizenship as a result of archaic citizenship laws, a demographic expert told members of Parliament."

The Impact of immigration on housing in England / MigrationWatch, 29 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sche

Motorcyclists' helmets - Test methods and new technologies / DfT, 20 March 2007
PDF - http://www.thinkroadsafety.gov.uk/pdf/PPR186MotorcyclistsHelmets.pdf
"This document is the final report from the DfT research project ‘Motorcyclists’ Helmets - Test Methods And New Technologies’. The project carried an objective review of current and state of the art helmet technologies whilst developing a body of knowledge to develop the basis for a consumer information programme for motorcycle helmets."

Closed consultations / IND, March 2007
http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/lawandpolicy/consultationdocuments/closedconsultations
Recently updated to include:
A response to the consultation on a new charging regime for immigration and nationality fees / IND, March 2007
PDF - http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/6353/6356/17715/MAC_responses.pdf
Migration Advisory Committee - terms of reference / IND, March 2007
PDF - http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/6353/6356/17715/MAC_TOR.pdf

European Muslims: No ghettos, yes to integration / Spero News, 27 March 2007
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=8699
"When a part of a religion goes toward violence and fundamentalism, we must criticise it"

A Game of two halves / Guardian, 28 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4scba
Jon Scott
"Weekly sports give ex-drug addicts the chance to regain their fitness and rediscover disciplines needed for work."

Community-based interventions to reduce substance misuse among vulnerable and disadvantaged children and young people / NICE, 28 March 2007
PDF - http://guidance.nice.org.uk/PHI4/guidance/pdf/English/download.dspx
Public health intervention guide PHI4

'One in 10 teens faces addiction' / Telegraph, 28 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4scay
Celia Hall
"More than 72,500 teenagers and people in their early twenties have serious drug problems, regularly using crack cocaine and heroin, warns an official report."

“Shisha 200 times worse than a cigarette” say Middle East experts / ASH, 27 March 2007
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/press/070327.html
"Three leading experts from across the Middle East have warned that excluding “shisha bars” when England goes smoke free on July 1 could worsen the grave inequalities in health that already affect ethnic minorities."

How to stay sane in jail, one page at a time / Times, 24 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4scax
Peter J. M. Wayne
"Our writer has spent half a lifetime behind bars. Here he tells how books have transformed his life."

[Ireland] Twelfth Report : DRUG ABUSE IN IRELAND –A WATERFORD PERSPECTIVE / HOUSES OF THE OIREACHTAS. JOINT COMMITTEE ON ARTS, SPORT, TOURISM, COMMUNITY, RURAL AND GAELTACHT AFFAIRS, March 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4scaw

[Ireland] Thirteenth Report : The relationship between alcohol misuse and the drinks industry sponsorship of sporting activities / HOUSES OF THE OIREACHTAS. JOINT COMMITTEE ON ARTS, SPORT, TOURISM, COMMUNITY, RURAL AND GAELTACHT AFFAIRS, March 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4scat

NATO to Legalize Afghanistan's Opium? / Der Spiegel, 27 March 2007
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,473933,00.html
"Despite efforts to eradicate Afghanistan's opium production, the problem keeps getting worse. And the Taliban insurgency is the primary beneficiary. Now, some European governments are weighing a legalisation of the drug trade."

The Migration Studies Society / Oxford University, March 2007
http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/teaching/MigrationStudiesSociety.shtml
"The MIGRATION STUDIES SOCIETY aims to connect people in Oxford examining any facet of migration and cultural pluralism and build dialogue and relationships across disciplines and affiliations, by organising forums for socializing, resource and information sharing, and research support. Society members include students and researchers from the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), the International Migration Institute (IMI), anthropology, politics, history, geography, and sociology. Organization is conducted at weekly open meetings by a planning committee drawn from Society members.
Projects include regular social events, weekly newsletters, website building, research presentation seminars, publications, and special events such as speakers, field trips, workshops, and inter-university conferences and exchanges."

Met: Helpline for Bereaved Families / Police Oracle, 27 March 2007
http://www.policeoracle.com/news/detail.cfm?id=13027
"The Metropolitan Police's Family Liaison Team launched its new phone line service for people affected by bereavement.
This follows on from its 'delivering a death message' line launched last year. The 0800 freephone number: 0800 0329996 has been designed to support those people directly impacted by bereavement, and who need assistance in dealing with the aftermath of a death."

UK e-crime chief: Cyber criminals are undeterred / InfoWorld.com, 27 March 2007
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/27/HNukcybercriminals_1.html
Jeremy Kirk
"Interview: Veteran of UK's e-crime unit discusses the agency charged with combatting online crime
Last year, the UK dissolved the National High-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), the agency responsible for investigating computer crime. The unit was folded into the Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA), a new organization that investigates fraud, drug trafficking and immigration-related crime. Critics charged that online crime would become a lower priority."

Turkey : Country of Origin Information report / RDS-IND, March 2007DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/turkey-140307.doc

Togo : Country of Origin Information key information documents / RDS-IND, March 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/togo-key-140307.doc

Nigeria : Country of Origin Information report / RDS-IND, March 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/nigeria-020307.doc

Eritrea : Country of Origin Information report / RDS-IND, March 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/eritrea-190307.doc

Cameroon : Country of Origin Information report / RDS-IND, March 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/cameroon-190307.doc

Burundi : Country of Origin Information key information documents / IND-RDS, March 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/burundi-key-140307.doc

Securing the UK Border : Our vision and strategy for the future / Home Office, 28 March 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4sbym

[USA] Online Resource for Identity Document Security Information / Govtech.com, 27 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sbyd
"Former 9/11 Commission counsel Janice Kephart announces the launch of an online Identity Document Security Library, consisting of legal, technical and policy pieces regarding identity document security. Kephart, a nationally recognized border security expert, created the library to serve as a 'one-stop-shop' information portal for those seeking objective, credible information on the issue of identity document security. The library contains federal, state and international legal materials; standards and best practices; federal, state and association activity, reports and letters; state leadership in identity document security; information on identity theft and counterfeiting; news and opinion pieces. Where possible, links to primary sources and Web sites are provided."

Youth Justice: Why is the verdict so often custody? / Young People Now, 28 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sbyc
"The number of young people given custodial sentences continues to rise, despite a fall in youth crime."

Gun gang: Tale of two Manchesters / BBC, 27 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sbya
"More than 3,000 miles separate Manchester, New Hampshire, USA and Manchester, in North West England. Yet both face the challenges of keeping inner city teenagers out of gun gangs."

Spain's immigration explosion second only to US / Expatica, 22 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sbxx
"In the past five years, Spain has become the country which receives the second highest number of immigrants after the US."

Moving on : from destitution to contribution / Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, 28 March 2007
PDF - http://www.jrct.org.uk/core/documents/download.asp?id=202

Destitution in Leeds / Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, 28 March 2007
PDF - http://www.jrct.org.uk/core/documents/download.asp?id=203

Destitution in Leeds (summary) / Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, 28 March 2007
PDF - http://www.jrct.org.uk/core/documents/download.asp?id=204

Prison Service News (Magazine) / HM Prison Service, 23 March 2007
http://www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/prisoninformation/prisonservicemagazine/
"In the current issue:
Leaving behind carbon footprints: Jenny Lindstrand travelled to HMYOI Deerbolt to see how simple measures have made a huge saving on the utilities and benefited the environment too.
Breaking the hardest news: Breaking the devastating news to a family that a loved one has died is an unenviable and difficult task. But that is just what Prison Service staff have to do following a death in custody. Two years ago a Family Liaison Officer (FLO) training course was launched to help pre-prepare staff to do this.
Leather workshop gets industry gong: An activities manager from HMP Liverpool has won the prestigious Productivity Trophy, sponsored by the Institute of Management Services, at the IdeasUK Annual Conference.
Kennet: a jail in the making: Transforming existing buildings into a Category C prison and designing a completely new regime and operations plan from scratch is no mean task. "

National Probation Service Bulletin: Issue 48 / NOMS, 23 March 2007
PDF - http://www.probation.homeoffice.gov.uk/files/pdf/Bulletin%2048.pdf

Promoting mental health for children held in secure settings: A framework for commissioning services / Department of Health, 26 March 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4sbxf
"This document aims to ensure that children in custodial and other secure settings have access to comprehensive child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) to which all children are entitled."

Capability reviews : tranche 3 : findings and common themes : civil service : strengths and challenges / Cabinet Office, 27 March 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4sbxe
"Capability review of MOD, DFID, FCO, DCMS and Defra."

Migrant Workers / Commission for Rural Communities, March 2007
http://www.ruralcommunities.gov.uk//projects/migrantworkers/overview
"This page on the Commission for Rural Communities website gives information about their migrant workers project. It looks at the challenges posed by migrant workers to service providers and others and the contributions that migrant workers are making to local rural economies. Recently, six regional case studies have been published giving best practice examples of public, private and voluntary and community sector initiatives."

[USA] Legal immigrants seek American citizenship in surging numbers / Christian Science Monitor, 26 March 2007
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0326/p01s03-ussc.html
Daniel B. Wood
"Nationwide, applications have increased 79 percent, according to US Citizenship and Immigration Services."

New Sensor Detects Gaseous Chemical Weapon Surrogates In 45 Seconds / Medical News Today, 23 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sbsd
"Using lasers and tuning forks, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a chemical weapon agent sensing technique that promises to meet or exceed current and emerging defense and homeland security chemical detection requirements. The technique, called Quartz Laser Photo-Acoustic Sensing, or "QPAS," is now ready for prototyping and field testing."

[USA] Lack of detention space hinders efforts to track fugitive immigrants / GovExec.com, 26 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sbrp
Jonathan Marino
"A shortage of space to hold illegal immigrants is hampering the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency's efforts to capture fugitives, according to a report released by the Homeland Security Department inspector general."

Judge says new law on rape and alcohol is unnecessary/ Guardian, 27 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sbrk
Clare Dyer
"· Ministers reconsider after 'drunken consent' ruling
· Setting consumption level is said to be unrealistic"

Own up and make up / Guardian, 27 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sbrj
Jerome Monahan
"Cherie Booth has called for restorative justice to be expanded. Some schools already know it works"

University of Leicester Research Examines the Use of Email 'As a Technology of Oppression’ / Leicester University, 27 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sbrc

ISO 17799: Finally, a universal approach to create security policies and practices / ITBusiness.ca, 26 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sbra
"ISO 17799 is a descendant of the British Standard Institute (BSI) Information Security Management standard BS 7799. While many organizations use the BS 7799 standard, demand grew for an internationally recognised information security standard under the directions of an internationally recognized body, such as the ISO. ISO 17799 is the only standard focused on Information Security Management in a field generally governed by guidelines and best practices."

[USA] A look at women police writers / PoliceOne.com, 26 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sbpy
Raymond E. Foster
"March is Women’s History Month. Nearly 600 state and local police officers in the Untied States have written books. And, twenty-one of those police officers are women. Like their male counterparts, they have written fiction, autobiographies, academic texts and even poetry. Interestingly enough, the most successful writer of romantic fiction is a retired male motorcop. Put the motorcop aside for the moment and let’s take a brief tour of the history of women police officers as writers."

Migration - sharing good practice / CLG, 21 March 2007
http://www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1509038
"Speech by Meg Munn MP at the joint Communities and Local Government and Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) conference on A8 migration, held on 21 March 2007."

PM delivers major crime policy review / Number 10, 27 March 2007
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page11353.asp
"Plans to target offenders and extend public services reform to the criminal justice system are among a raft of measures unveiled by the Prime Minister. Speaking at a major conference on public service delivery, Mr Blair said that new effective prevention measures would target the 100,000 criminals who commit half of all crime."

Building on progress: Security, crime and justice / Number 10, 27 March 2007
PDF - http://www.pm.gov.uk/files/pdf/Policy_Review_Police%20.pdf

Crime and the criminal justice system – delivery since 1997 / Number 10, 27 March 2007
PDF - http://www.pm.gov.uk/files/pdf/Home%20Office%20Delivery%20-%20ONE%20PAGE.pdf

Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance : Challenges of Technological Change / Royal Academy of Engineering, 26 March 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4sbny
"People think there has to be a choice between privacy and security; that increased security means more collection and processing of personal private information. However, in a challenging report, The Royal Academy of Engineering says that, with the right engineering solutions, we can have both increased privacy and more security. Engineers have a key role in achieving the right balance."

Tackling alcohol misuse in prison: a window of opportunity or a lost opportunity? / Alcohol Concern, 26 March 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4sbnx
Acquire : Alcohol Concern’s Quarterly Information and Research Bulletin : Spring 2007

Zimbabwe : Country of Origin Information report / RDS-IND, February 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/zimbabwe-210207.doc

Vietnam : Country of Origin Information report / IND-RDS, December 2006
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs06/vietnam_221206.doc

Syria : Country Origin of Information report / IND-RDS, February 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/syria-210207.doc

Sudan : Country of Origin Information report / RDS-IND, January 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/sudan-260107.doc

Sri Lanka : Country of Origin Information report / IND-RDS, January 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/srilanka-080207.doc

Somalia: Country of Origin Information report / RDS-IND, 28 February 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/somalia-010307.doc

Russia : Country of Origin Information key information documents / RDS-IND, January 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/key-documents-russia-220107.doc

Peru : Country of Origin Information key information documents / RDS-IND, January 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/key-documents-peru-190107.doc

Pakistan : Country of Origin Information report / RDS-IND, January 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/pakistan-120207.doc

North Korea : Country of Origin Information key information documents / RDS-IND, February 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/north-korea-key-220207.doc

Mali : Country of Origin Information key information documents / RDS-IND, January 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/key-documents-mali-190107.doc

Malaysia : Country of Origin Information key information documents / RDS-IND, November 2006
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/malaysia_key_151106.doc

Kenya : Country of Origin Information key information documents /RDS-IND, January 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/key-documents-kenya-150107.doc

Jamaica : Country of Origin Information report / RDS-IND, November 2006
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/jamaica_111206.doc

Ivory Coast : Country of Origin Information key information documents / RDS-IND, November 2006
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs06/key_documents_ivory_coast_271106.doc

Iraq : Country of Origin Information report / RDS-IND, October 2006
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs06/iraq_061106.doc

Iran : Country of Origin Information report / RDS-IND, October 2006
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs06/iran_011106.doc

Indonesia : Country of Origin Information key information documents /RDS-IND, January 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/key-docs-indonesia-220107.doc

India : Country of Origin Information report / RDS-IND, January 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/india-130207.doc

Georgia : Country Origin of Information key information documents / RDS-IND, 17 January 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/key-docs-georgia-180107.doc

Ethiopia : Country of Origin Information report / RDS-IND, 14 February 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/ethiopia-210207.doc

Democratic Republic of the Congo : Country of Origin Information report / RDS-IND, 14 February 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/drcongo-140207.doc

China : Country of Origin Information report / RDS-IND, December 2006
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/china-190107.doc

Benin: Country of Origin Information : key information documents / RDS-IND, January 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/key-documents-benin-190107.doc

Bangladesh : Country of Origin Information Bulletin / RDS-IND, January 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/bangladesh-bulletin-220107.doc

Bangladesh : Country of Origin Information Report / RDS-IND, February 2007
DOC - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/bangladesh-150307.doc

MONTHLY UPDATE : Volume 1, Number 1 : March/April 2007 / enoughproject.org, March 2007
PDF - http://enoughproject.org/reports/pdf/enough_march_news.pdf
"Covers Eastern Congo, Darfur and NorthernUganda."

Joined-up police IT / Public Service Review, 19 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sbgr
"With consensus achieved and a vision in place, Andy Waters, ISS4PS Implementation Programme Manager at PITO, gives an overview of the strategy successfully unifying the fragmented nature of police ICT solutions."

Are immigrants eating our identity? In debates about citizenship, health and education, the government is displacing its own crisis of identity on to newcomers / sp!ked.com, 19 March 2007
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/earticle/2973/
Alka Sehgal
"UK Chancellor Gordon Brown’s recent initiative to ensure that immigrants feel a proper sense of loyalty to Britain has been criticised for being either too little too late or just plain daft. Brown said last month that immigrants should do some ‘community work’ before being granted British citizenship. For Brown, citizenship should be a ‘kind of contract’ with ‘rights and responsibilities’. This follows on from other proposals suggesting that immigrants should be ‘encouraged’ to learn English and should take tests to demonstrate that they know what Britain is all about and that they wish to be part of it."

Management competencies for preventing and reducing stress at work / HSE, March 2007
PDF - http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr553.pdf
"This report presents the findings of the first phase of a research project which aimed to identify the specific management behaviours associated with the effective management of stress at work and to build a management competency framework for preventing and reducing stress at work. The project also aimed to identify those behaviours associated with each of the six HSE Management Standards and those behaviours associated with the implementation of the Standards. A final aim was to explore the possible integration of the emergent competency framework into existing management competency frameworks."

Independent reviews: index / HM Treasury, March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sbga
"This is a list of current independent reviews. Click on the links below to view and download the documents."

'Many' forces still failing to give enough safety training
Jane's Police Review, 22 March 2007
http://jpr.janes.com
"Forces are still not delivering enough safety training for officers, according to an official HM Inspectorate of Constabulary report. All officers should receive at least 12 hours' safety training per year under ACPO guidelines, but the HMIC report found that 'many' forces were not delivering enough." [Sub required]

DNA detection
Jane's Police Review, 22 March 2007
http://jpr.janes.com
"Researchers have been investigating the factors that influence the success or failure of DNA evidence to lead to detections. John Bond reports on the vital importance of watertight DNA collection. The importance of processing DNA material recovered from crime scenes as quickly as possible to maximise the opportunity of detecting offences has been widely recognised within the police service for a number of years." [Sub required]

CHANGE OF SCENE
Jane's Police Review, 22 March 2007
http://jpr.janes.com
"Vic Vanderveer once proudly wore the world famous red jacket of the Canadian Mounties. He now just as proudly wears the luminous yellow jacket of Merseyside Police." [Sub required]

Superintendents protest over 'nonsense' pay review findings
Jane's Police Review, 22 March 2007
http://jpr.janes.com
"CHIEF superintendents and superintendents in England and Wales may cut out the after hours and off duty work they put in in a future protest over pay. Ian Johnston, the new president of the Superintendents' Association, warned his members would contemplate 'withdrawing goodwill' if recommendations from the report, Fair pay for police officers, becomes a reality." [Sub required]

Trail blazer
Jane's Police Review, 22 March 2007
http://jpr.janes.com
"These days, police officers share some of their burden with others. Whether it is working in multi-agency public protection arrangements or in crime and disorder reduction partnerships, teaming up with other agencies in the ongoing fight against crime is part of being an effective community police officer. But in the late 1980s, before the days of community support officers, anti-social behaviour orders and most bobbies being on first name terms with staff from local councils and housing, health, probation and prison services, things were very different. [Sub required]

Multiculturalism and Islam: Sharia vs European constitutions / AsianNews.it, 23 March 2007
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=8815&size=A
Samir Khalil Samir
"Problems in Holland and Denmark. Great Britain as an example: decades of multiculturalism that have lead to ghettos, closure, radicalism of Islamic communities. Women ever penalized. Being European citizens involves having the duty to integrate."

Improving school ethos may reduce substance misuse and teenage pregnancy
BMJ 2007;334:614-616 (24 March)
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/334/7594/614
C Bonell, A Fletcher, J McCambridge
"Current strategies to improve teenage health are not having the desired effect." [Sub required]

Plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka – Then and Now / Tamil Week, 23 March 2007
http://tamilweek.com/news-features/archives/837
Dr. S. Narapalasingam
"The present depressing situation particularly for the Tamils in Sri Lanka is the worst since India intervened in 1987 to end the internal strife that had escalated to a violent campaign for a separate autonomous state of Tamil Eelam in the island’s North-East region."

Americas drug money goes to cleaners
Jane's Foreign Report, 19 March 2007
http://frp.janes.com
"Latin America and the Caribbean are the source of nearly all the world's cocaine and substantial amounts of heroin and marijuana. The drug business is controlled by big, vertically integrated criminal organisations that turn over billions of dollars a year." [Sub required]

[USA] No fingerprint, no car? No deal, she said / Daily Breeze, 25 March 2007
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/6692482.html
Josh Grossberg
"Practice that seeks to guarantee customer IDs is on the rise, but it got one person's thumbs-down at a Torrance dealer.
The color was perfect. The interior was just what she wanted. Lorna Herf thought she had found the new car she was looking for. Her credit checked out. A deal had been struck. And then she hit a snag: Management at South Bay BMW in Torrance wouldn't sell her the $40,000 car until she did one last thing. ...'Well, just give us your thumbprint, and we'll finish the deal.' Huh? Why are you asking for that?" She had better get used to it."

Biometric passport: security in question / Computer World, March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sbep
Irene Tham and Jeremy Kirk
"Singapore’s biometric passport could be compromised as it follows the same International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)-recommended standard for machine-readable passports as the UK, which recently reported a security breach."

[USA] Prisons: State has to conserve prison space for worst offenders / Lansing State Journal, 20 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sbeh
"As lawmakers wade deeper into Michigan's budget thicket, they will run smack dab into the Department of Corrections. How could they not? DOC now uses almost $2 billion from the general fund and is the largest single employer in state government. DOC also has the distinction of an agency that has continued to grow even while other key state accounts were cut. That has to change, for the simple fact that Michigan can't afford its present policy."

[Malaysia] Parole System Can Bring An End To Overcrowded Prisons / Bernama.com, 20 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sbeg
"The parole system should be used for prisoners undergoing a jail sentence of between one and three years as a means to overcome the problem of prison congestion. In making the suggestion, Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) Commissioner Datuk N. Siva Subramaniam said there were currently 48,110 prisoners throughout the country."

CITIZENSHIP, MIGRATION, AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION IN SWEDEN: A MODEL FOR EUROPE? / Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement, January 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4sbdy
Elena Dingu-Kyrklund
CERIS Working Paper No. 52

Harm reduction / drinkanddrugsnews, 26 March 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4sbdr
Sara Moralioglu
"Harm reduction in North America has achieved remarkable progress since the first user groups risked their freedom for the right to save lives."

Unfair crackdown? : Closure orders / drinkanddrugsnews, 26 March 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4sbdq
Christopher Cuddihee
"Closure orders were intended to give police swift powers to deal with crack houses. But the law is starting to fall far wide of its targets."

Benzodiazepine Deficiency Syndrome / drinkanddrugs.net, 26 March 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4sbdn
Adam Bakkar
"In her last ‘post-its from Practice’ column, Dr Chris Ford reignited the ‘good guys, bad guys?’ debate on benzodiazepines. Dr Adam Bakkar believes in their value, and pulls together evidence to show why."

[Scotland] Violent criminals to say sorry to victims in prison / Herald, 26 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sbcy
LUCY ADAMS
"Prisoners who have been convicted of serious assault, robbery and housebreaking will be given the opportunity to meet and apologise to their victims under new plans to curb reoffending.
Victims and relatives will be contacted to see if they are willing to have prison meetings with criminals who have committed a range of serious crimes."

[USA] Dogs and cats placed with inmates in Maine prison / Seacoastonline.com, 21 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sbay
"Timothy Duncan house-trained Archie, a shepherd mix, and taught him how to sit. But Duncan isn't a suburban dog owner who might be spotted taking his pet for a walk around the block.
Instead, Duncan is an inmate at the Maine Correctional Center, and Archie is a participant in the Paws in Stripes program that places puppies and kittens with inmates for rehabilitation. Six months after being launched in Maine, the program is getting high marks."

Leading article: The cannabis debate / Independent on Sunday, 25 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sbaj
"Our front-page headline last week, "Cannabis: an apology", certainly grabbed the attention of a lot of people. No issue since the Iraq war has provoked such a reaction from our readers and from other media. We publish a selection of letters, including many from people dismayed by our repudiation of our 1997 campaign to decriminalise cannabis."

Antonio Maria Costa: Cannabis... call it anything but 'soft'
http://digbig.com/4sban

Julie Lynn-Evans: Legalise the old stuff but make the new stuff a class A drug
http://digbig.com/4sbap

So how dangerous is skunk?
http://digbig.com/4sbam
Jonathan Owen

UN warns of cannabis dangers as it backs 'IoS' drugs 'apology'
http://digbig.com/4sbak
Jonathan Owen

[Australia] Child snatches to rise with migration / The Australian, 26 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sbah
Stephen Lunn
"INCREASING migration and cross-cultural marriages will inevitably increase the number of children being abducted from Australia."

Global City Migration Map / Migration Policy Institute, March 2007
http://www.migrationinformation.org/datahub/gcmm.cfm
"In most cases, international migrants do not randomly choose their country of destination. On the contrary, for a variety of economic, social, linguistic, and other reasons, they migrate to certain countries and, within these countries, to certain cities.
The Global City Migration Map allows you to expand your knowledge and understanding of the movements of international migrants to urban gateways around the world."

[USA] In-Custody Deaths: Excited Delirium / Officer.com, 4 March 2007
http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?id=35148&siteSection=3
PAMELA KULBARSH
"A worst case scenario before you are even dispatched
The dispatch call may be for a disturbance or for a mentally ill subject. There will probably be several reporting parties. A man is yelling and screaming downtown; he has smashed in several stores' windows; he is nude. When you arrive you find you cannot communicate with him. He is grossly incoherent, obviously hallucinating. The subject is either acutely mentally ill, under the influence of drugs, or both. It is time to contain and control him. He needs to go somewhere--jail or a mental health facility. As you approach he immediately initiates a fight with apparent superhuman strength. Other officers respond and six of you engage in a protracted physical encounter. You finally get him handcuffed, and apply leg restraints. Paramedics have been called to the scene. While you wait, the subject still fights the restraints. Suddenly he stops struggling, and you realize he has also stopped breathing and has no pulse. ... On autopsy, the coroner cannot find sufficient evidence to establish a cause of death."

[USA] Pretty soon, prison Web site will help you locate prisoners / Charleston Daily Mail, 16 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sbab
Justin D. Anderson
"By this summer, West Virginians should be able to go on the Internet and find information about inmates lodged in the state's prisons."

Whitehall faces autumn wait for CSR settlements / CIPFA, 23 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sbaa
"Gordon Brown has been accused of ‘sneaking out’ the news that the Comprehensive Spending Review will be delayed until the autumn and of trying to ‘close down’ a public debate over its conclusions."

House of Lords Merits of Statutory Instruments Committee : Fifteenth Report of Session 2006-07 : Drawing special attention to: Draft Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2007; Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) Regulations 2007; Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Surcharge) Order 2007; Water Resources Management Plan Regulations 2007 / TSO, 22 March 2007
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HL 78

Action targets migrant workers / Yorkshire Today, 23 March 2007
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"AN ACTION plan is being drawn up to ensure migrant workers living in some of England's remotest communities are receiving adequate support.
The influx of thousands of overseas employees into the region has resulted in the new arrivals steadily dispersing throughout Yorkshire as they seek out the most lucrative jobs."

[Canada] Sex-trade workers challenge Criminal Code / CBC News, 21 March 2007
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"Toronto sex-trade workers are spearheading a legal crusade to amend laws they say endanger Canadians working in the industry."

How Many Hours Do You Have to Work to Be Integrated? : Full Time and Part Time Employment of Native and Ethnic Minority Women in the Netherlands / IZA, March 2007
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Pieter Bevelander ; Sandra Groeneveld
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2684