Under-age drinkers plaguing town / BBC, Friday, 17 October 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7676021.stm
"Police said youths are descending on Lochgelly from nearby towns
Up to 200 teenagers are descending on a Fife town every week for co-ordinated drinking sessions, it has been claimed. Locals said youths were descending on Lochgelly from nearby towns such as Cardenden, Ballingry, and Cowdenbeath. Children as young as 12 were said to be getting drunk before causing trouble in Friday night gatherings, which it is thought are arranged in the classroom. Community wardens have tried free cinema tickets and minibuses to youth clubs to curb the problem."

More than one million added to the DNA database as children
/ The Daily Telegraph, 17 November 2008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3473483/More-than-one-million-added-to-the-DNA-database-as-children.html
"Campaigners said the revelations showed how children are being criminalised and treated as "suspects for life". Official figures show that, since the DNA database was created, 1.07million profiles of children have been added. This is nearly a quarter of the 4.4million profiles on the database. Anyone who comes into contact with the police, as an offender or a witness."

Government Olympic Executive Newsletter / Department for Culture, Media and Sport
http://www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/2012_olympic_games_and_paralympic_games/5602.aspx

"This page links to the latest issue of a newsletter designed to keep stakeholders up to date with government activity on the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games."

Home Office: Drugs interventions programme / Home Office, 11 November 2008
http://drugs.homeoffice.gov.uk/publication-search/dip/dip-conditional-cautioning
"This page gives information on the Home Office's drugs intervention programme, which is a key part of the government's strategy for tackling drugs and reducing crime. A fact sheet on conditional cautioning has been added."

Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary's Response to the Policing Green Paper / Home Office, 7 November 2008
http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmic/inspections/special_humberside_police_report/HMCIC_s_response_to_the_pol11

"This is Sir Ronnie Flanagan’s letter to the Home Secretary in response to the policing green paper. He outlines a future for the inspectorate that champions the public interest by seeking to significantly improve public confidence in the analysis and assessment of police performance and improvement."

Responding to Rape: Speech by Alan Campbell / Home Office, 7 November 2008
http://press.homeoffice.gov.uk/Speeches/alan-campbell-speech-resonding
"This is a transcript of the speech by Home Office Minister Alan Campbell to the Lancashire and Cumbria Constabularies Joint Conference on 7 November 2008. He talks about the Government's role in ensuring that police have the support needed to deliver a first-class service to all victims of rape and sexual violence."

The Future of Policing: Speech by Jacqui Smith / Home Office, 7 November 2008
http://press.homeoffice.gov.uk/Speeches/home-sec-speech-police-future
"This is a transcript of the speech by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to the Neighbourhood Crime and Justice Group on 5 November 2008. She talks about the challenges facing policing.

Police Reform e-Bulletin / Home Office, 5 November 2008
http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/police-reform-e-bulletin/policing-policy-e-bulletin-119?view=Standard&pubID=592181
"This page links to the Police Reform e-Bulletin, which is published every fortnight for those working on the police reform programme. Issue 119 has been added.

Neighbourhood Crime and Justice Areas / Home Office, 5 November 2008
http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/police-reform/neighbourhood-crime-justice-area?view=Standard&pubID=592256
"This document lists the 60 areas across the country that have signed up to become new neighbourhood crime and justice pioneer areas."

New stop and search saves officers time
Jane's Police Review, 29 October 2008
http://jpr.janes.com
"West Midlands Police officers estimate they could to save 21,000 hours a year - the equivalent of 875 working days - after the force changed the way stop and searches are carried out. The force is one of four taking part in the national 'stop and encounter pilot' on behalf of the Home Office."
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Police 'pimp their ride' into mobile youth club / 24dash.com, 27 October 2008
http://digbig.com/4xtjd
"Equipped with a plasma TV, stereo and games console this is one police van people might not mind being thrown in the back of. [...] Equipped with a plasma TV, stereo and games console this is one police van people might not mind being thrown in the back of."

EU's Criminal Records Information System needs solid infrastructure says European Data Protection Supervisor / Public Technology, 22 September 2008
http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=17359
"On 16 September 2008, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) adopted an opinion on a proposal for a Council Decision on the establishment of an electronic European Criminal Records Information System (ECRIS). The Decision is part of a package designed to help EU Member States to share the criminal records of their citizens and exchange information on past criminal convictions."

Population in Custody: Monthly tables / Ministry of Justice, 31 October 2008
http://www.justice.gov.uk/docs/population-in-custody-september08.pdf
"This is a monthly statistical release presenting tables on the population in custody, with summary figures on the population in prison establishments, police cells, secure children's homes and secure training centres. The tables for September 2008 have been added."

HM Inspectorate of Constabulary: Inspection of resource leverage - Metropolitan Police Service / Home Office, 31 October 2008
http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmic/inspections/special_humberside_police_report/An_Inspection_of_Resource_H1.pdf
"This report evaluates the financial health and resource efficiency of the Metropolitan Police Service."

Police losing fight to stop cocaine use Number of people taking drug now tops 800,000,Home Office figures show / The Independent, 31 October 2008
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-losing-fight-to-stop-cocaine-use-980248.html
"Britain is losing the war against cocaine with new figures showing a dramatic increase in people using the drug over the past decade and a slump in the volume seized by police. The proportion of adults using cocaine in the past year has increased nearly four-fold since 1996, to an estimated 810,000 people a year, Home Office figures showed."

Police fail to record crime properly, as violence rises 22% / The Times 24 October 2008
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4998731.ece
"Serious violent crime is much worse than the Government has been claiming because police forces have been failing to record offences properly, it was disclosed yesterday."

Swindon becomes first town to ban speed cameras / The Times, 24 October 2008
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/article4998031.ece
"The black burn marks on the yellow box in Queen’s Drive will tell you all you need to know about what they think of speed cameras in Swindon. The Wiltshire borough’s Tory-run council has become the first in Britain to abolish the cameras after it refused to pay the £320,000-a-year cost of maintaining them."

Surge in police sickness costs taxpayer £90m a year / The Times, 23 October 2008
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4995725.ece
"Police forces lost more than one million days to long-term sick leave last year at a record cost of nearly £90 million, an investigation by The Times has found. The cost has soared by more than 20 per cent in the past five years despite a drive within the police to reduce prolonged sick absences. Freedom of information requests to the 43 forces in England and Wales revealed that stress, depression, back pain and other musculo-skeletal disorders are mainly responsible."

Police will use new device to take fingerprints in street Civil rights campaigners say images must not be added to databases / The Guardian, 27 October 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/oct/27/project-midas-fingerprint-scanner-liberty
"Every police force in the UK is to be equipped with mobile fingerprint scanners - handheld devices that allow police to carry out identity checks on people in the street."

Seizures of Drugs in England and Wales 2006-07 / Home Office, 30 October 2008
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb1208.pdf
"These statistics cover the number of drug seizures made by police forces and HM Revenue and Customs in 2006-07, as well as the quantities seized."