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Closing the Forensic Science Service will make miscarriages of justice more likely

By on Friday, February 17th, 2012 | Comments Off

Why should we expect a part of the criminal justice system to make money? That’s a question being asked in relation to the growing concerns over the arrangements – or the lack of them – for the closure of the Forensic Science Service, which is due to take place next month. Just to recap, the FSS [...]

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Thousands wrongly labelled as criminals

By on Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 | No Comments

At least 20,000 people have been wrongly labelled as criminals or accused of more serious offences because of blunders by the police and the Criminal Records Bureau. The errors are contained in vetting checks meaning many may have been unfairly turned down for jobs or had their reputations shattered. In at least 3,000 cases the [...]

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Crime map website to reveal hotspots

By on Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 | No Comments

The number and type of crimes which take place at hotspots like nightclubs, subways and parks are to be revealed on a crime-mapping website from Tuesday. The site, which lets users in England and Wales see reported crimes in their street, now covers public places. Home Secretary Theresa May said revealing details of crime and [...]

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Vicars ‘presided over hundreds of sham marriages for immigrants’

By on Friday, January 27th, 2012 | No Comments

Two Church of England vicars conducted “hundreds” of sham marriages to enable illegal immigrants to stay in Britain, a court was told yesterday. Rev Elwon John, 44, and Rev Brian Shipsides, 55, performed the ceremonies at All Saints Church in Forest Gate, east London, it is alleged. The weddings, mainly between Nigerian and European Union [...]

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‘Predictive policing’ could come to UK

By on Thursday, January 26th, 2012 | No Comments

A very interesting story in relation to a pioneering technique dubbed ‘predictive policing’ was reported in The Independent today. “The technique to predict crime before it happens could be imported from the United States to this country. Pilots of the scheme – under which officers are dispatched to crime hotspots identified by computer – have had [...]

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Fifth new lead in “nude in the nettles” case

By on Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 | No Comments

A FIFTH family has contacted detectives trying to solve one of North Yorkshire’s most famous mysteries. Police revealed the new lead today, as they prepare to begin digging up the woman’s remains in a new attempt to finally identify her. Officers have been granted permission to exhume the woman’s body at Malton Cemetery in order to extract [...]

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Bigamist wins ‘family life’ human rights case

By on Monday, January 23rd, 2012 | No Comments

A foreign drug-dealing bigamist has won the right to stay in Britain because of his human right to “family life”. Home Office lawyers hoped the deportation of foreign criminal Taoufik Didi would be an open-and-shut case. He had been sentenced to three years in prison for selling cocaine to undercover police officers, and so exceeded [...]

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Knife crime rises fast as muggers target gadgets

By on Friday, January 20th, 2012 | No Comments

A surge in the number of murders and knifepoint muggings overshadowed yesterday’s release of crime figures that showed the number of offences is falling. The total number of offences reported to police fell by 4 per cent to 4.1 million in the year to the end of September – but violent attacks increased. More than [...]

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Reinvented serious crime squad could lose staff

By on Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 | No Comments

The setting up of the NCA is described as the most radical change to policing in 50 years. The new organisation set up during a major overhaul of British policing to tackle the country’s most dangerous gangs will probably lose some of the staff currently fighting serious organised crime, its new head said yesterday. Keith [...]

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Police to exhume ‘nude in the nettles’ body

By on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 | 1 Comment

Police investigating an infamous unsolved mystery are to exhume the remains of an unidentified woman whose body was found at a beauty spot more than three decades ago. Detectives at North Yorkshire Police have been given permission to disinter a woman whose naked body was discovered at a roadside in 1981 in what became known [...]

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