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CROWN PROSECUTOR SECRETLY TAPED

Speaking at Teesside University, Middlesbrough, Crown Prosecutor Philip Bolam was [...]

USING VELCRO FASTENERS

Dowty Armourshield of Manchester, England, has filed for a British [...]

POLICE CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS

A two-year long Scotland Yard anti-corruption investigation, codenamed Operation Jackpot, [...]

PRIVATIZED PRISONS FEAR IRA

Changing its policy, the government has decided that convicted IRA [...]

CONTROLLING PRIVATE SECURITY

Senior police officers have asked the Home Office to introduce statutory regulations to improve the standards and clamp down on [...]

IRAQGATE SPANS THE ATLANTIC

Three former senior executives of the Coventry-based precision-tool manufacturer, Matrix Churchill (purchased by Iraq in 1987 with British government approval), [...]

SUSPICIOUS INFORMER RECRUITMENT POLICY

A Home Office study earlier this year on "resident informers" [...]

VULNERABLE TO JAMMING

The British Defence Research Agency recently demonstrated the vulnerability of [...]

A CHANGE OF EAVESDROPPING LAW?

On 4 November, Lord Justice Lloyd, former Commissioner of the [...]

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BLOWN ANTI-IRA OPS

The current IRA bombing campaign in London could probably have been stopped if it hadn't been for lack of police and intelligence coordination that resulted in two fiascoes which received little publicity. And the possible fall-out from these blown anti-IRA [.

THE "CATSCLAW" TIRE SHREDDER

The British Ministry of Defence and Scotland Yard have expressed "keen interest" in Catsclaw, a portable anti-vehicle barrier developed by [...]

PAUL CONDON

Described by the Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke as "forceful and dynamic", the current Chief Constable of Kent, Paul Condon, has [...]

THE PATENT THAT GOT AWAY

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) ordinarily prohibits the publication of [...]

JOURNALISTS SUBJECTS OF TELEPHONE "METERING"

A theft on 19 July in a Scottish police station [...]

CONTROLLED SALES OF CHEMICALS FOR DRUGS

DEA official Gene Haislip this fall told the British Chemical [...]

IBC Technical Services Limited in Byfleet, Surry (fax 44 71 [...]

MICHAEL ROSE

Major General Sir Michael Rose of the Special Air Service (SAS) is tipped to become Director of Special Forces (DSF), [...]

The first annual conference of the Association for Global Strategic [...]

NO BRITISH FBI

The Home Secretary, Kenneth Clarke, told the Police Superintendents Association [...]