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Abuse in Jersey

Posted on 30 Oct 2009 In: General

A former work at a Jersey children’s home has finally been jailed for two years after being convicted of indecent attacks on teenage girls in the 1970’s.  Gordon Wateridge worked at the Haut de la Garenne home and had also been found of guilty of 8 counts of indecent assaults against three girls. The 78 [...]

Football violence and hooligans

Posted on 30 Oct 2009 In: General

Over the summer with the trouble experienced in the Carling Cup football match there is currently a appeal to help identify 66 individuals who are wanted for violent disorder.  The violent scenes broke out during the west ham versus Millwall match on Tuesday 25th August at Upton Park.  During the chaos a Millwall fan was [...]

Money fraud and money laundering

Posted on 28 Oct 2009 In: General

To prevent Newham and Hounslow residents help prevent their money being used by fraud gangs they are being urged to use registered money bureaus when transferring money aboard.  Some unregistered foreign exchange bureaus illegally launder money to fun crime which includes terrorism, people smuggling, weapons and drug cultivation.  During the time of Eid, Navaratri and [...]

Phishing and rising crime

Posted on 26 Oct 2009 In: General

Phishing is when random emails are sent to individuals or businesses pretending to be from a genuine company or bank.  This is normally done in a attempt to try and get customers to disclose their personal account information. When following the link on the mail it’s generally pointed to a bogus website which customers believe [...]

Combat crime by using effective gates

Posted on 18 Oct 2009 In: General

In Scunthorpe estate a £15000 ring of steel fences and gates have been set up around in an attempt and hope to reduce anti-social behaviour.  It was installed by landlords of North Lincolnshire Homes are concerns were raised by residents over noise levels late at night.  All the residents of the estate have keys to [...]

Academic linguistics and crime

Posted on 17 Oct 2009 In: General

Academic linguistics is the study and description of analogue patterns and how we use descriptions and language across a variety of contexts.  Forensics use the knowledge in areas such as police interviews, courtrooms or writings that become part of an investigation.  In some cases if there is already a suspect police use and compare writings [...]

The Black Police Association (BPA) Cymru was launched, the chief constable David Morris said Wales had achieved its targets.  The nation has 78 black and ethnic minority officers and there’s concern that more needs to be done and the lack of recruitment in the recession would hit numbers.  It’s essential that these officers get the [...]

Crime Statistics

Posted on 15 Oct 2009 In: General

A delay has been caused to the government and forced them to delay the publication of a series of criminal justice statistics.  The cause was the failings of two Whitehall IT systems which were delivered late and millions of pounds over budget.  The ministry of justice announced yesterday that instead of next month, annual sentencing [...]