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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), [...]

OFFICIAL COMPUTER MISUSE REPORT

Following the recent publication of its report, Dealing With Computer [...]

ARMS STANDARDIZATION PLAN

The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) of England and [...]

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

NO BRITISH FBI

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

VIKTOR OSCHENKO'S NETWORK

Successive arrests of "moles" over the past few weeks in Paris and London have followed the defection in late July [...]

ANTI-TERRORIST BOSS "AXED"

Commander George Churchill-Coleman's replacement at the head of Scotland Yard's Anti-Terrorist Branch, SO13, by Commander David Tucker (see "Who's Who" [...]