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Acpo: Police swamped by CCTV data
News Ian Readhead, director of information for the Acpo Criminal Records Office, said on Wednesday that police were being overwhelmed by the volume of such data, and that one of his major concerns was that police did not have the capability to track a...
[May 15, 2009, 12:14]
Police ask for more Internet powers
News A list of anti-terror recommendations from the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) has been handed to MPs in the wake of the London bombings this month, as the government is reviewing laws on how to tackle terrorism.
[July 26, 2005, 8:55]
Police in talks over pocket PC-crime detection tool
News Officers in the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) e-crime group are looking into commercial devices that can search text, pictures and computer code on a hard disc for material of interest. Forensic specialists within Acpo are examining...
[June 4, 2009, 8:37]
Private companies to be subject to FoI law
News However, Shami Chakrabarti, director of the human rights organisation Liberty, welcomed the extension, and said that private companies such as the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) should be subject to FoI.
[May 14, 2009, 13:18]
Plan to extend police-hacking powers gathers pace
News The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) said that between 2007 and 2008 there had been 194 warrantless searches performed by the police, but an ACPO spokesperson was unable to confirm at the time of writing how many of those searches had...
[January 5, 2009, 15:16]
Government launches new e-crime unit
Blog I am delighted that the Home Office has confirmed funding for this new unit that ACPO and law enforcement agencies have been developing. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Janet Williams, Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) lead for e-crime, said:
[September 30, 2008, 14:45]
Police expert calls for open-source data tools
News Ian Readhead, director of information for ACPO, said on Tuesday at a Unisys security event that emergency service data transferal systems should be open source, to help ensure interoperability between them.
[June 23, 2009, 16:45]
E-crime victims uncertain where to turn
News The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) said in its inaugural e-crime report, published on Wednesday, that there was currently "no central reporting point for e-crime in the UK, and as a result victims of e-crime are often uncertain about...
[August 27, 2009, 16:27]
Police eye tech for reporting live crimes via video
News According to Ian Readhead, director of information for the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), the technology to allow such reporting is already being looked at by the force. According to Acpo, police now routinely check YouTube to gather...
[April 27, 2009, 16:02]
Government to forge new cybercrime policies
News The announcement comes in the wake of an e-crime discussion meeting between Home Office minister Vernon Coaker, Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) representatives and the Metropolitan Police's head of e-crime, Charlie McMurdie.
[March 27, 2008, 7:35]
A Year Ago: Government plans e-surveillance
News ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers) spokesman on the Internet Keith Akerman confesses he is "amazed" by the amount of surveillance being proposed. This was a voluntary agreement drawn up by ACPO and the ISP Forum with ISPs able to refuse...
[September 27, 2000, 7:02]
Surveillance: Government plans e-surveillance
News ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers) spokesman on the Internet Keith Akerman confesses he is "amazed" by the amount of surveillance being proposed. This was a voluntary agreement drawn up by ACPO and the ISP Forum with ISPs able to refuse...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Surveillance: Privacy versus policework - the debate
News In one corner is Keith Akerman, head of CID in Hampshire and chair of ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers) computer crime working group. The police say access to email and Net traffic is necessary in the fight against crime.
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Businesses may be forced to fund e-crime unit
News It follows a suggestion that the Policing Central E-crime Unit, proposed by the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) and the Metropolitan Police Service, would be jointly funded by the Home Office, Acpo and businesses.
[March 18, 2008, 7:24]
MoJ issues digital-preservation code of practice
News Wills said the government will also undertake a consultation on extending the Freedom of Information Act to cover academy schools, the Financial Ombudsman Service, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) and the Association of...
[July 20, 2009, 9:39]
VoIP industry fears over-regulation
News We've had a lot of dialogue with various emergency services bodies and ACPO [the Association of Chief Police Officers], and it would seem to be the obvious statement that the more you can enable 999 service and access to it, the more it is in the...
[November 17, 2006, 16:10]
Policing the unacceptable - Bringing paedophiles to justice
News To that end ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers) is considering setting up a unit to deal with cyber crime. Chief Superintendent Martin Jauch, head of the Metropolitan Police's Clubs and Vice Unit and PC Paul Griffiths from the Obscene...
[March 22, 1999, 12:25]
Police get go ahead for cyber crime squad
News The long-awaited cyber crime unit moves a step closer Tuesday as the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and the Home Office approve the plan. As previously reported on ZDNet News, the unit -- dedicated to solving computer and Internet...
[October 26, 1999, 15:12]
Wales to adopt mobile average-speed cameras
Blog In May, the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) admitted that police in the UK were swamped by the amount of data they were collecting. The Welsh government is moving towards adopting the use of mobile average speed cameras, according to...
[October 2, 2009, 17:23]
Police to investigate Linux desktops
News Project Valiant, launched by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) last June, will create a systems strategy for UK police forces. A large project to build an information systems strategy for the UK's police forces is to examine the...
[January 23, 2002, 10:03]
