http://www.statewatch.org/news/2004/aug/transfer-protection-status.pdf
"The transfer of protection status in the EU, against the background of the common European asylum system and the goal of a uniform status, valid throughout the Union, for those granted asylum"
SOCIETY, SOCIAL MEDIA, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE< GOVERNMENT>JUSTICE - a selective newsfeed
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Friday, September 03, 2004
Thursday, September 02, 2004
New super strain of coca plant stuns anti-drug officials / Scotsman, 31 Aug 2004
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1002462004
JEREMY MCDERMOTT
"DRUG traffickers have created a new strain of coca plant that yields up to four times more cocaine than existing plants and promises to revolutionise Colombia?s drugs industry.
The new variety of coca, the raw material for cocaine, was found in an anti-drug operation on the Caribbean coast, on the mountainsides of the Sierra Nevada, long known as a drug-growing region.
Samples of the plant were sent for laboratory analysis and experts then pronounced drugs traffickers had developed a new breed.
'This is a very tall plant,' said Colonel Diego Leon Caicedo of the anti-narcotics police. 'It has a lot more leaves and a lighter colour than other varieties.'
A toxicologist, Camilo Uribe, who studied the coca, said: 'The quality and percentage of hydrochloride from each leaf is much better, between 97 and 98 per cent. A normal plant does not get more than 25 per cent, meaning that more drugs and of a higher purity can be extracted.' "
JEREMY MCDERMOTT
"DRUG traffickers have created a new strain of coca plant that yields up to four times more cocaine than existing plants and promises to revolutionise Colombia?s drugs industry.
The new variety of coca, the raw material for cocaine, was found in an anti-drug operation on the Caribbean coast, on the mountainsides of the Sierra Nevada, long known as a drug-growing region.
Samples of the plant were sent for laboratory analysis and experts then pronounced drugs traffickers had developed a new breed.
'This is a very tall plant,' said Colonel Diego Leon Caicedo of the anti-narcotics police. 'It has a lot more leaves and a lighter colour than other varieties.'
A toxicologist, Camilo Uribe, who studied the coca, said: 'The quality and percentage of hydrochloride from each leaf is much better, between 97 and 98 per cent. A normal plant does not get more than 25 per cent, meaning that more drugs and of a higher purity can be extracted.' "
Northamptonshire Police fit in-car data recorders to reduce crashes
http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1681
"Black boxes which record and store a range of information about vehicle journeys and driving behaviour are being fitted to police vehicles by Northamptonshire Police.
The devices, which are more properly known as Incident Data Recorders (IDRs), are currently being fitted to 70 marked police vehicles across the county as part of a year-long pilot project aimed at reducing collisions involving police vehicles.
In the past 12 months, 356 police vehicles have been involved in collisions or incidents on the county?s roads, and 13 officers suffered injuries as a result. This has led to vehicles being off the road for some time and has also led to an increase in the cost of vehicle insurance for the county Force, which is keen to reduce both costs and injury to its staff. "
"Black boxes which record and store a range of information about vehicle journeys and driving behaviour are being fitted to police vehicles by Northamptonshire Police.
The devices, which are more properly known as Incident Data Recorders (IDRs), are currently being fitted to 70 marked police vehicles across the county as part of a year-long pilot project aimed at reducing collisions involving police vehicles.
In the past 12 months, 356 police vehicles have been involved in collisions or incidents on the county?s roads, and 13 officers suffered injuries as a result. This has led to vehicles being off the road for some time and has also led to an increase in the cost of vehicle insurance for the county Force, which is keen to reduce both costs and injury to its staff. "
Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Organized Crime Invades Cyberspace - Computerworld, 30 Aug 2004
https://www.aqa.issuebits.com:8443/keswebmodule/keservlet?hardquestion1.htm
Dan Verton
"Once the work of vandals, viruses and other malware are now being launched by criminals looking for profits. Antivirus researchers have uncovered a startling increase in organized virus- and worm-writing activity that they say is powering an underground economy specializing in identity theft and spam. "
Dan Verton
"Once the work of vandals, viruses and other malware are now being launched by criminals looking for profits. Antivirus researchers have uncovered a startling increase in organized virus- and worm-writing activity that they say is powering an underground economy specializing in identity theft and spam. "
RE-THINK CRIME PREVENTION CAMPAIGNS TO TARGET ETHNIC MINORITY RESIDENTS, SAYS STUDY / GNN - 26 Aug 2004
http://www.gnn.gov.uk/content/detail.asp?NewsAreaID=2&ReleaseID=127781&print=true:
"Messages on crime prevention are failing to reach members of ethnic minorities, highlighting a need to examine new ways of targeting these groups, advises a major study on media and crime reduction.
Community safety professionals often use media campaigns to promote the benefits of improving security to fight crime.
But their messages aren't hitting home with members of ethnic minorities, even though they were found to be among the groups most concerned about becoming victims of crimes."
"Informing the Effective Use of Publicity and Media Campaigns to Reduce Crime and the Fear of Crime:
http://www.safeinteesvalley.org/CrimePreventionAndTheMediaReportIssue4.pdf
"Messages on crime prevention are failing to reach members of ethnic minorities, highlighting a need to examine new ways of targeting these groups, advises a major study on media and crime reduction.
Community safety professionals often use media campaigns to promote the benefits of improving security to fight crime.
But their messages aren't hitting home with members of ethnic minorities, even though they were found to be among the groups most concerned about becoming victims of crimes."
"Informing the Effective Use of Publicity and Media Campaigns to Reduce Crime and the Fear of Crime:
http://www.safeinteesvalley.org/CrimePreventionAndTheMediaReportIssue4.pdf
Monday, August 30, 2004
Asylum seekers to get get IVF on NHS before childless Scots / Scotland on Sunday, 29 Aug 2004
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1013052004
EDDIE BARNES
ASYLUM seekers will be given NHS fertility treatment on demand in a controversial move which will mean they are treated almost three times as quickly as many Scots.
Ministers have told doctors they must provide In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) - at a cost per treatment of around �2,700 - to asylum seekers on exactly the same basis as Scottish patients.
The order was given after several asylum seekers sought IVF from the NHS in Scotland and doctors decided to seek the advice of health officials on whether they should provide the treatment.
Ministers have not only authorised IVF for those applying for asylum but have ruled that courses of treatment, which can go on for several months, should continue even if the patient�s application to remain in the UK is rejected. "
EDDIE BARNES
ASYLUM seekers will be given NHS fertility treatment on demand in a controversial move which will mean they are treated almost three times as quickly as many Scots.
Ministers have told doctors they must provide In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) - at a cost per treatment of around �2,700 - to asylum seekers on exactly the same basis as Scottish patients.
The order was given after several asylum seekers sought IVF from the NHS in Scotland and doctors decided to seek the advice of health officials on whether they should provide the treatment.
Ministers have not only authorised IVF for those applying for asylum but have ruled that courses of treatment, which can go on for several months, should continue even if the patient�s application to remain in the UK is rejected. "
Sunday, August 29, 2004
Why teens went on CRIME SPREE / Straits Times, 29 Aug 29, 2004
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4386,269820,00.html:
Tracy Quek
"A SPIKE in youth crime came about last year partly because of teens whose parents were hard hit by the bad economy, say social workers. With money woes at home and little spending cash, more youngsters turned to petty crime - stealing, shoplifting or hawking pirated VCDs.
Last year, the number of nine- to 16-year-olds charged in the Juvenile Court rose 49 per cent from 2002 - from 388 to 578.
The link to the economy is just one aspect emerging from a new study the court has compiled from the cases it dealt with over those two years."
Tracy Quek
"A SPIKE in youth crime came about last year partly because of teens whose parents were hard hit by the bad economy, say social workers. With money woes at home and little spending cash, more youngsters turned to petty crime - stealing, shoplifting or hawking pirated VCDs.
Last year, the number of nine- to 16-year-olds charged in the Juvenile Court rose 49 per cent from 2002 - from 388 to 578.
The link to the economy is just one aspect emerging from a new study the court has compiled from the cases it dealt with over those two years."
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