http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=276
Joanne van Selm
"Creating common immigration and asylum policies for the European Union has been and continues to be a long, slow process. It is full of milestones whose measurable impact can appear quite insignificant considering media coverage and public frustration on various aspects of migration-related issues."
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Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Bogus students are flooding the UK / IOL: Europe, 2 Jan 2005
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=24&art_id=vn20050102094640549C552110
"Thousands of bogus foreign students - including South Africans - are staying in Britain by extending their visas as part of a major immigration scam.
Analysis of official figures suggests that posing as a student is a major back-door entry route into the United Kingdom, and raises questions about the government's control of immigration.
It is believed that tens of thousands of people are arriving as ordinary tourists and then enrolling at bogus colleges, paying hundreds of pounds in exchange for the paperwork they need to get a student visa."
"Thousands of bogus foreign students - including South Africans - are staying in Britain by extending their visas as part of a major immigration scam.
Analysis of official figures suggests that posing as a student is a major back-door entry route into the United Kingdom, and raises questions about the government's control of immigration.
It is believed that tens of thousands of people are arriving as ordinary tourists and then enrolling at bogus colleges, paying hundreds of pounds in exchange for the paperwork they need to get a student visa."
Chicago attributes murder-rate decline to new policing methods / Winston-Salem Journal, 2 Jan 2004
http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031779974543&path=!nationworld&s=1037645509161
"Chicago, which had the unwanted distinction of having more homicides than any other city in the nation a year ago, seems in a single year to have undergone a remarkable turnaround, with killings in 2004 at their lowest tally since 1965."
"Chicago, which had the unwanted distinction of having more homicides than any other city in the nation a year ago, seems in a single year to have undergone a remarkable turnaround, with killings in 2004 at their lowest tally since 1965."
Scots police chiefs plan to ignore minor crime 'to boost efficiency' / Scotsman,3 Jan 2005
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=4562005
Andrew Denholm
"SENIOR police officers have drawn up plans to avoid dealing with some crimes in an effort to save money. In a move that will threaten the Scottish Executive's crackdown on anti-social behaviour, a report by the Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland (ACPOS) recommends that officers should no longer be responsible for call-outs to incidents such as car crashes, minor fires or arguments between neighbours.
Under the proposals, parking disputes, the abandonment of vehicles, or complaints about loud music or vandalism would also be left to community-support officers or neighbourhood wardens to deal with.
Chief constables across Scotland are also reviewing whether officers should attend attempted suicides, minor fires or incidents of public drunkenness, or be responsible for notifying the next of kin about relatives� deaths.
The new strategy has been drawn up because police are concerned about the drain on resources and manpower caused by attending a multitude of minor incidents. "
Andrew Denholm
"SENIOR police officers have drawn up plans to avoid dealing with some crimes in an effort to save money. In a move that will threaten the Scottish Executive's crackdown on anti-social behaviour, a report by the Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland (ACPOS) recommends that officers should no longer be responsible for call-outs to incidents such as car crashes, minor fires or arguments between neighbours.
Under the proposals, parking disputes, the abandonment of vehicles, or complaints about loud music or vandalism would also be left to community-support officers or neighbourhood wardens to deal with.
Chief constables across Scotland are also reviewing whether officers should attend attempted suicides, minor fires or incidents of public drunkenness, or be responsible for notifying the next of kin about relatives� deaths.
The new strategy has been drawn up because police are concerned about the drain on resources and manpower caused by attending a multitude of minor incidents. "
Monday, January 03, 2005
Project hopes to use Mo. juvenile system as a model / STLtoday, 25 Dec 2004
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/D6BAF67D62A66DFD86256F760007F27A?OpenDocument&Headline=Project+hopes+to+use+Mo.+juvenile+system+as+a+model++
Matthew Franck
"The Missouri approach rejects conventional thinking in juvenile justice that's locked up most of the nation's youth offenders in prisonlike correction centers. Instead, Missouri closed down its large centers in favor of community-based programs that emphasize reform over punishment.
The cottage approach is used for even the toughest youth offenders, many of whom reside at maximum security youth centers such as the Hogan Street Regional Youth Center in St. Louis. A small number of minors, however, are tried as adults and sentenced to adult prisons.
Steward plans to form a national institute, based in Missouri, to help other states mimic Missouri's system"
Matthew Franck
"The Missouri approach rejects conventional thinking in juvenile justice that's locked up most of the nation's youth offenders in prisonlike correction centers. Instead, Missouri closed down its large centers in favor of community-based programs that emphasize reform over punishment.
The cottage approach is used for even the toughest youth offenders, many of whom reside at maximum security youth centers such as the Hogan Street Regional Youth Center in St. Louis. A small number of minors, however, are tried as adults and sentenced to adult prisons.
Steward plans to form a national institute, based in Missouri, to help other states mimic Missouri's system"
Number's up for Mr Bigs as men in grey ensure crime doesn't pay / Scotland on Sunday, 26 Dec 2004
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=1466272004
Kate Foster
"The Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency (SDEA) is to employ a crack team of accountants to work alongside its squad of hardened, streetwise detectives in the battle against the nation�s Mr Bigs.
The agency believes accountants - despite their popular association with grey suits and low social skills - can improve conviction rates by doggedly following the paper trail most major criminals leave behind them.
At present, this work is �contracted out� to independent experts and the SDEA believes an in-house team can achieve more in less time while saving money.
The SDEA is expanding its remit from drug trafficking to all forms of organised crime and is to employ experts in a range of areas to help. "
Kate Foster
"The Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency (SDEA) is to employ a crack team of accountants to work alongside its squad of hardened, streetwise detectives in the battle against the nation�s Mr Bigs.
The agency believes accountants - despite their popular association with grey suits and low social skills - can improve conviction rates by doggedly following the paper trail most major criminals leave behind them.
At present, this work is �contracted out� to independent experts and the SDEA believes an in-house team can achieve more in less time while saving money.
The SDEA is expanding its remit from drug trafficking to all forms of organised crime and is to employ experts in a range of areas to help. "
Friday, December 31, 2004
icCoventry - Support officers won't get new powers / IcCoventry, 27 Dec 2004
http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0150swarksnews/tm_objectid=15017492&method=full&siteid=50003&headline=support-officers-won-t-get-new-powers-name_page.html
Annette Morgan
"Police community support officers across Coventry and Warwick-shire will not be allowed to use new powers to hold suspects for half an hour, it has been announced.
Police chiefs from Warwick-shire and the West Midlands have confirmed they will not be increasing the powers of their police community support officers (PCSOs) in accordance with new legislation allowing them to detain suspects."
Annette Morgan
"Police community support officers across Coventry and Warwick-shire will not be allowed to use new powers to hold suspects for half an hour, it has been announced.
Police chiefs from Warwick-shire and the West Midlands have confirmed they will not be increasing the powers of their police community support officers (PCSOs) in accordance with new legislation allowing them to detain suspects."
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