http://jtsm.janes.com
"British and US airports introduced tightened security in August that prevented passengers from carrying liquids, gels, cosmetics and electronic equipment onto aircraft in their hand luggage. The new security measures were introduced to prevent terrorists assembling explosive devices after boarding an aircraft using components that included liquids." [Sub required]
Saturday, October 14, 2006
Filming anti-social kids has cut crime, say police / Burnley Citizen, 13 Oct 2006
http://digbig.com/4nhmy
Camilla Sutcliffe
"A POLICE operation to crack criminal damage and anti-social behaviour will be repeated, despite causing anger in the local community. The scheme, which saw officers filming teenage children, helped to slash crime in Brierfield. But it led to parents confronting the officers involved in the operation."
Camilla Sutcliffe
"A POLICE operation to crack criminal damage and anti-social behaviour will be repeated, despite causing anger in the local community. The scheme, which saw officers filming teenage children, helped to slash crime in Brierfield. But it led to parents confronting the officers involved in the operation."
New detectors can 'sniff out' drugs / Australian, 13 Oct 2006
http://digbig.com/4nhmx
"UNIVERSITY of Newcastle scientists say they could revolutionise border security with new chemical sensors which can detect explosives and illegal drugs. The sensors, which "sniff out" illicit substances, are coated onto walk-through screening devices similar to the metal detectors already in use at airports."
"UNIVERSITY of Newcastle scientists say they could revolutionise border security with new chemical sensors which can detect explosives and illegal drugs. The sensors, which "sniff out" illicit substances, are coated onto walk-through screening devices similar to the metal detectors already in use at airports."
The Relative Effectiveness of 10 Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Programs in the United States / Rand, October 2006
PDF - http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2006/RAND_TR346.pdf
Andrew R. Morral, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Greg Ridgeway, Arnab Mukherji, Christopher Beighley
Andrew R. Morral, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Greg Ridgeway, Arnab Mukherji, Christopher Beighley
Number of Filipinos caught with tampered passports rising / MQ7News, 14 Oct 2006
http://digbig.com/4nhmt
Volt Contreras
"THE Philippine Embassy in Rome reported a rise in the number of overseas Filipino workers caught attempting to enter Italy with tampered passports."
Volt Contreras
"THE Philippine Embassy in Rome reported a rise in the number of overseas Filipino workers caught attempting to enter Italy with tampered passports."
ASU discovery may aid counter-terrorism efforts / EurekaAlert, 12 Oct 2006
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/asu-adm101206.php
"New analytical tool developed for liquid explosives detection. The thwarted 2006 London airline bomb plot not only heightened summer travel fears and created new passenger screening inconveniences, but also greatly underscored the urgent need for improved national security measures. Now, professor Joe Wang, director of the Center for Biosensors and Bioelectronics at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, has developed a highly sensitive technology to rapidly detect liquid peroxide explosives in as little as 15 seconds. The results are published as a research communication online in this week's edition of the leading international analytical journal, The Analyst (www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/an/Article.asp?Type=AdvArticle - Sub Required). "
"New analytical tool developed for liquid explosives detection. The thwarted 2006 London airline bomb plot not only heightened summer travel fears and created new passenger screening inconveniences, but also greatly underscored the urgent need for improved national security measures. Now, professor Joe Wang, director of the Center for Biosensors and Bioelectronics at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, has developed a highly sensitive technology to rapidly detect liquid peroxide explosives in as little as 15 seconds. The results are published as a research communication online in this week's edition of the leading international analytical journal, The Analyst (www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/an/Article.asp?Type=AdvArticle - Sub Required). "
A veiled debate / Spiked, 10 Oct 2006
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/earticle/1804
Josie Appleton
" British women who wear the niqab have more in common with hoodies than with Islamic tradition."
End this Muslim-Mania, by Mick Hume
Hijab in the Hood: Religion, Pop Culture and Public Policy, Andrew Calcutt, Rising East no. 4
A symbol of modesty or sign of separation?, Globe and Mail
Josie Appleton
" British women who wear the niqab have more in common with hoodies than with Islamic tradition."
End this Muslim-Mania, by Mick Hume
Hijab in the Hood: Religion, Pop Culture and Public Policy, Andrew Calcutt, Rising East no. 4
A symbol of modesty or sign of separation?, Globe and Mail
Publish, and you can still be damned / Spiked, 13 Oct 2006
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/earticle/1886
Helene Guldberg
"An 'historic' judgement in the House of Lords might make it easier to defend a libel case, but leaves press freedom subject to a bad law. Five UK law lords this week ruled unanimously that the media should be better able to claim a ‘public interest’ defence when sued for libel. The judgement by Britain’s highest court has been hailed as an historic victory for free speech and investigative journalism. But it still leaves the final say on freedom of the press in the hands of judges interpreting a bad law."
Helene Guldberg
"An 'historic' judgement in the House of Lords might make it easier to defend a libel case, but leaves press freedom subject to a bad law. Five UK law lords this week ruled unanimously that the media should be better able to claim a ‘public interest’ defence when sued for libel. The judgement by Britain’s highest court has been hailed as an historic victory for free speech and investigative journalism. But it still leaves the final say on freedom of the press in the hands of judges interpreting a bad law."
A Spanish CSI story? / Spiked, 11 Oct 2006
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/earticle/1840
Robert Latona
"A Spanish CSI story? Recent conspiracy theories about the Madrid bombings are being used to settle scores in politics and the media. What, exactly, is the conspiracy about? In short, the claim is that Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has suppressed hard evidence that the Basque separatist terror group ETA was involved in the massacre, sharing technical and logistic know-how with the Islamists, and possibly some leftover dynamite."
Robert Latona
"A Spanish CSI story? Recent conspiracy theories about the Madrid bombings are being used to settle scores in politics and the media. What, exactly, is the conspiracy about? In short, the claim is that Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has suppressed hard evidence that the Basque separatist terror group ETA was involved in the massacre, sharing technical and logistic know-how with the Islamists, and possibly some leftover dynamite."
Filling fragments can be crime solvers / UB Reporter, Volume 38, Number 7, 12 Oct 2006
http://digbig.com/4nhme
LOIS BAKER
"Evidence exists to identify human remains when all else is lost. When an explosion, accidental cremation or a fire set deliberately to cover a crime destroys a body, precious little may remain to link it to a life once lived. Yet even among the ashes, a team of forensic dental researchers at UB has shown that evidence exists that can help identify human remains when all else—flesh, bones, teeth, DNA—is lost. Work by forensic dental researchers Peter and Mary Bush has shown for the first time that inorganic resins that make up the central matrix of tooth-colored dental fillings can withstand temperatures of 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit, be recovered and named by brand or brand groups."
LOIS BAKER
"Evidence exists to identify human remains when all else is lost. When an explosion, accidental cremation or a fire set deliberately to cover a crime destroys a body, precious little may remain to link it to a life once lived. Yet even among the ashes, a team of forensic dental researchers at UB has shown that evidence exists that can help identify human remains when all else—flesh, bones, teeth, DNA—is lost. Work by forensic dental researchers Peter and Mary Bush has shown for the first time that inorganic resins that make up the central matrix of tooth-colored dental fillings can withstand temperatures of 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit, be recovered and named by brand or brand groups."
Arrested Iraqi accused of promoting al-Qaida in Internet chat room / International Herald Tribune, 12 Oct 2006
http://digbig.com/4nhmd
"An Iraqi man arrested in Germany on suspicion of supporting a foreign terrorist organization had promoted al-Qaida as the administrator of an Internet chat room."
"An Iraqi man arrested in Germany on suspicion of supporting a foreign terrorist organization had promoted al-Qaida as the administrator of an Internet chat room."
Girls committing more crime in Switzerland / SwissInfo, 12 Oct 2006
http://digbig.com/4nhkw
"Violence among girls is said to be increasing. The number of girls sentenced by Swiss courts rose last year by more than seven per cent, despite an overall drop in juvenile convictions." [Basic view of all crime stats.]
"Violence among girls is said to be increasing. The number of girls sentenced by Swiss courts rose last year by more than seven per cent, despite an overall drop in juvenile convictions." [Basic view of all crime stats.]
Biometric watchdogs catching illegals entering Singapore / Monsters & Critics, 12 Oct 2006
http://digbig.com/4nhkt
"More than 1,000 foreigners banned from Singapore were caught when they tried to enter the country using false identities this year, thanks to the biometric database installed last June by the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA). The database stores fingerprints, photographs and personal details of some 146,000 foreigners who had been repatriated for offences committed in Singapore."
"More than 1,000 foreigners banned from Singapore were caught when they tried to enter the country using false identities this year, thanks to the biometric database installed last June by the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA). The database stores fingerprints, photographs and personal details of some 146,000 foreigners who had been repatriated for offences committed in Singapore."
The war on youth Cover story / New Statesman, 16 Oct 2006
http://www.newstatesman.com/200610160027
Alice O'Keeffe
"Crime rates are falling throughout Britain, yet the number of children being prosecuted just keeps on rising. Why are we turning so many young people into criminals?"
Alice O'Keeffe
"Crime rates are falling throughout Britain, yet the number of children being prosecuted just keeps on rising. Why are we turning so many young people into criminals?"
Bus crash driver fined charity cash / Yarmouth Mercury, 12 Oct 2006
http://digbig.com/4nhkp
"A bus driver involved in an autobahn crash that claimed the lives of three people, including an off-duty driver from Gorleston, has been ordered to give £700 to charity by a German court. The driver was told by a court in Kerpen, near Cologne, on Tuesday that he could be either jailed or fined six times his annual salary - or pay the money to the Quidenham Children's Hospice in return for there being no further action against him."
"A bus driver involved in an autobahn crash that claimed the lives of three people, including an off-duty driver from Gorleston, has been ordered to give £700 to charity by a German court. The driver was told by a court in Kerpen, near Cologne, on Tuesday that he could be either jailed or fined six times his annual salary - or pay the money to the Quidenham Children's Hospice in return for there being no further action against him."
In-depth study on all forms of violence against women / UN, 9 Oct 2006
PDF - http://digbig.com/4nhkn
Secretary General's Office
Executive summary of the Secretary-General's in-depth study on violence against women[ English French Spanish ]
Background note on "Forms, consequences and costs of violence against women"[ English French Spanish ]
Background note on "Fighting violence against women: What works"[ English French Spanish ]
Background note on "Violence against women: Unmet needs, broken promises"[ English French Spanish ]
Secretary General's Office
Executive summary of the Secretary-General's in-depth study on violence against women[ English French Spanish ]
Background note on "Forms, consequences and costs of violence against women"[ English French Spanish ]
Background note on "Fighting violence against women: What works"[ English French Spanish ]
Background note on "Violence against women: Unmet needs, broken promises"[ English French Spanish ]
On the Ground: eye witness reports from Sack Parliament / IndyMedia, 12 Oct 2006
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/10/353313.html
Oscar Beard
"Then the snatch-and-grabs started, targeting very specific individuals inside the police bubble. A large team of police and FIT officers would enter the cordon, target the individual, make a grab and drag them out whilst the surrounding police pushed back anyone trying to interfere with the operation. This tactic worked at least three times. Then a group of protestors attempted to block the grabs by linking arms and surrounding the next suspected target. This would have worked. But with the police capable of turning to physical force and violence at any time, and get away with it - any protestor acting in a similar manner would be immediately arrested for assault - the advantage clearly went to the yellow-coats." [Public Order]
Oscar Beard
"Then the snatch-and-grabs started, targeting very specific individuals inside the police bubble. A large team of police and FIT officers would enter the cordon, target the individual, make a grab and drag them out whilst the surrounding police pushed back anyone trying to interfere with the operation. This tactic worked at least three times. Then a group of protestors attempted to block the grabs by linking arms and surrounding the next suspected target. This would have worked. But with the police capable of turning to physical force and violence at any time, and get away with it - any protestor acting in a similar manner would be immediately arrested for assault - the advantage clearly went to the yellow-coats." [Public Order]
ID cards: the next steps? / Ideal Government, 10 Oct 2006
http://digbig.com/4nhkk
Ruth Kennedy
"About 60 or so people squeezed into the conference room at the IPPR to hear the Home Office Minister of State for nationality, citizenship and immigration, Liam Byrne MP, set out the 'next steps' for the re-assessed ID card programme. He carefully explained that the 'all-new' ID card project is intended to do 4 things:- increase border security and decrease illegal immigration - increase protection for the most vulnerable - improved criminal detection rates - prevention of identity fraud and he noted his decision to seek to share existing information and datasets across government where that was appropriate."
Ruth Kennedy
"About 60 or so people squeezed into the conference room at the IPPR to hear the Home Office Minister of State for nationality, citizenship and immigration, Liam Byrne MP, set out the 'next steps' for the re-assessed ID card programme. He carefully explained that the 'all-new' ID card project is intended to do 4 things:- increase border security and decrease illegal immigration - increase protection for the most vulnerable - improved criminal detection rates - prevention of identity fraud and he noted his decision to seek to share existing information and datasets across government where that was appropriate."
Maths provides answer to airport security puzzle / Innovations Report, 13 Oct 2006
http://digbig.com/4nhkj
"High flyers will enjoy faster and safer travel in the future, thanks to mathematicians at The University of Manchester and airport security specialists Rapiscan Systems. The two parties are joining forces for a research project to provide fast, accurate 3D x-ray images of suitcases and baggage. The project is being funded jointly by the UK-based Rapiscan Systems and the British government's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council."
"High flyers will enjoy faster and safer travel in the future, thanks to mathematicians at The University of Manchester and airport security specialists Rapiscan Systems. The two parties are joining forces for a research project to provide fast, accurate 3D x-ray images of suitcases and baggage. The project is being funded jointly by the UK-based Rapiscan Systems and the British government's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council."
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