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Manchester Police come under cyberattack
News At one point just before the bank holiday weekend, 2,000 emails an hour were being sent to Greater Manchester Police (GMP) chief constable Michael Todd. A UK police chief has been bombarded with thousands of threatening emails in a denial of...
[May 3, 2005, 15:40]
Manchester police boss sacked for downloading porn
News John Williamson, 35, was dismissed from his job as deputy director of press and public affairs with Greater Manchester Police, after 7,000 pornographic images were found saved on the hard drive of his work computer in the force's headquarters.
[March 8, 2001, 14:02]
Manchester police call for backup after cyberattack
News Computer crime experts at the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) have been called in to help investigate an attempted DoS attack on the Greater Manchester Police (GMP). The emails were spoofed to show US President George Bush as the sender and...
[July 12, 2005, 17:25]
Manchester police call for backup after cyberattack
Talkback The specialised enforcement units. The call for backup is a natural reaction to a cyber crime of this nature. It is not possible to train all the officers of the law enforcement agencies to deal with cyber crimes.
[July 13, 2005, 8:16]
Police will not pursue ransom hackers
News Greater Manchester Police (GMP) will not be pursuing the criminals who used a Trojan horse program to lock a Manchester woman's files and demanded a ransom to release them. A ransom note instructed her to avoid going to the police, and buy...
[June 2, 2006, 12:50]
Police force's Facebook app raises privacy concerns
News Last week, Greater Manchester Police became the first UK police force to establish a presence on Facebook. Greater Manchester Police established an application called GMP Updates on Facebook, providing users with crime news, appeals and missing...
[April 21, 2008, 15:13]
Huge raid on alleged Net paedophiles
News A simultaneous raid of 45 suspected Net paedophile homes has been carried out early Tuesday morning, following a three-month investigation by Greater Manchester police. Greater Manchester police has confirmed that 22 successful arrests have been...
[March 27, 2001, 10:50]
Police crack down on Net child pornographers
News On Thursday 27 addresses across the UK were raided following six months' investigation by the Greater Manchester Police's Obscene Publications Unit. Inspector Terry Jones -- who heads up Manchester's obscene publications unit -- has seen a massive...
[December 10, 1999, 12:49]
Arson attacks hit BT network
News Greater Manchester Police have confirmed two attacks, one at 2:50 a.m.at Trafford Road on Salford Quays and one at 4:00 a.m.on Ordsall Lane in Salford. Two arson attacks have brought down parts of BT's network in and around Manchester.
[October 23, 2002, 14:38]
UK suspects arrested in Internet paedophile crackdown
News No information is currently available on arrests that may have taken place, but Greater Manchester Police has a positive warrant for arrest on its target. Inspector Terry Jones at Greater Manchester's Obscene Publications Unit was involved in the...
[November 28, 2001, 11:31]
Courts service gets information-exchange network
News HMCS is working with Greater Manchester police on implementation of the programme in the Greater Manchester criminal justice area," she said. According to HM Court Service's annual report for 2008-09, the Criminal Justice System's Exchange Links...
[July 23, 2009, 17:07]
Home Office laptop and disc 'bought on eBay'
News We understand that encrypted IT equipment has been handed to Greater Manchester Police," a Home Office spokesperson said on Thursday. The laptop had been bought on the auction site then taken to an IT company near Manchester for repairs.
[February 28, 2008, 11:57]
Police lack resources for paedophile hunts
News Britain has been slow to react to Internet paedophilia, and we need the government to approve resources so that we can deal with the problem and make the Internet a safer place for children," said inspector Terry Jones from the Obscene...
[February 15, 2001, 9:02]
UK welcomes careful hackers
Leader Greater Manchester Police won't investigate the offence as it's technically an "international crime", and the Serious and Organised Crime Agency is very unlikely to act without proof that it was the work of organised criminals.
[June 2, 2006, 15:25]
Exclusive: Government will not prioritise paedophile cases
News The unit has said it will deal with major cases of Internet paedophiles, but I don't know what that means," said inspector Terry Jones at the Greater Manchester Police Obscene Publications Unit, highlighting the lack of clarity surrounding the...
[February 12, 2001, 11:52]
Web of Porn: Adult pornography 'not a priority' - Met
News Only the Metropolitan, Greater Manchester and West Midlands forces have a unit dedicated to investigating porn and these are concerned mainly with child pornography. The Greater Manchester Obscene Publications Unit has no proactive policy on adult...
[March 9, 1999, 12:58]
Gov't faces backlash over e-Borders travel database
News The government plans to retain all travel data for everyone entering and leaving the country in a centralised database for 10 years, and is in the process of updating a centre near Manchester to process the data, the Home Office said on Monday.
[February 9, 2009, 15:21]
High tech crime chief calls for new Internet laws
News Terry Jones at Greater Manchester's Obscene Publications Unit, one of the few existing cybercrime units in the country, said that current legislation may be sufficient to deal with cybercrime retrospectively in order to recover evidence, but is...
[April 18, 2001, 14:21]
Brit arrested over Cisco code theft
News The 20-year-old man, who has not been identified, was arrested on 3 September, after the Metropolitan Police Computer Crime Unit searched two residences in Manchester and Derbyshire. Police have arrested a man suspected of stealing source code from...
[September 20, 2004, 7:55]
Paedophile swoop nets 13-year-old
News Operation Appal is the third investigation launched by the Greater Manchester police force into the distribution of obscene material over the Internet. Forty-three search warrants were executed Tuesday morning by the Obscene Publications Unit at...
[March 28, 2001, 8:20]
