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Massive paedophile operation leads to arrests
News Thirteen suspected paedophiles were arrested and 27 computers seized in police dawn raids Wednesday in the UK's largest ever police operation against child pornography on the Internet. Videos, CD-ROMs and thousands of paedophile pictures -- which...
[January 17, 2001, 13:28]
Singapore raids net pirated Windows XP
News More than 4,000 copies of Microsoft products were seized in police raids of pirated software in Singapore. Seven raids were conducted in October, across the island's heartlands like Toa Payoh, Ang Mo Kio, Marine Parade and Bedok North.
[November 9, 2001, 9:07]
Police raid software pirates
News More than 100,000 pieces of counterfeit video CDs (VCDs), CD-ROMs and DVDs were seized, and 15 men were arrested, as police launched raids on three pirate syndicates on Saturday. Police had been monitoring the activities of the syndicates over...
[October 15, 2001, 16:59]
Computer hardware thefts investigated by police
News A spokesman for Islington police station, which coordinated Wednesday's raids, says that the majority of thefts are carried out to order, although it is unclear where components are going. Eleven men were arrested in the raids and are being held by...
[November 30, 2000, 11:09]
Pirate software linked with organised crime
News Recent police raids by drug squads in Derbyshire and Chesterfield have uncovered evidence of wholesale counterfeit software being used to supplement drug pushing. Counterfeit software has been linked with organised crime and drug pushing by the...
[November 23, 2000, 6:08]
Police use face-mapping tools to identify abuse victims
News The National Crime Squad (NCS) has confirmed that it will be using sophisticated facial-mapping software to identify the children depicted in 60,000 pornographic images obtained through dawn raids on suspected Internet paedophiles.
[November 28, 2001, 14:12]
Anti-piracy directive could expose consumers
News Most [other EU countries] only have those provisions for criminal cases, which would only allow the police to carry out such raids. The directive could trigger sweeping changes to the UK's intellectual property laws, it says, including raids...
[March 10, 2004, 13:20]
Encryption foils Internet child porn prosecutions
News The Telegraph reports that the computer of Stephen Ellis, one of the ten Britons originally arrested in the 1998 raids, could not be decrypted by specialist technicians in the UK. Inspector Terry Jones at Manchester's Obscene Publications Unit, who...
[August 3, 2001, 14:10]
Police smash £39m Italian piracy ring
News Joint investigations with the Business Software Alliance lasting several months led to synchronised raids across nine Italian provinces this week, resulting in one person being formally charged and 10 further suspects being identified.
[November 6, 2002, 17:04]
Police aim to develop 'computer breathalyser'
News Detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie, joint architect of the UK's Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), said front-line police ideally need a digital forensic tool as easy to use as the breathalyser, to help them deal with growing numbers of...
[December 12, 2008, 7:28]
Police arrest nine men over £3m mobile raid
News Officers carried out raids on 14 addresses across the Midlands and the South of England. Police investigating the theft of £3m worth of mobile phones announced on Friday they had arrested nine men in connection with the offence.
[July 6, 2001, 15:54]
Police smash UK's biggest pirate software operation
News The majority of this money is going to organised criminals, about 80 percent of our raids uncover other serious criminal matters," he said, "There is even growing paramilitary involvement. West Midlands police last week smashed one of the UK's...
[November 16, 1999, 11:53]
Police swoop on Internet paedophiles
News Operation Ore is the latest in a series of coordinated raids against suspected Internet paedophiles. Police arrested 30 people in a series of arrests across Britain on Monday morning as part of a crackdown into Internet child pornography.
[May 20, 2002, 16:56]
Fake HP goods seized in China
News Last quarter, over 87,000 counterfeit HP cartridges and accessories were seized in China, with 14 police raids conducted in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.
[February 6, 2002, 8:59]
Customs police raid Hyundai booth at tech fair
News A customs official told the wire service that 69 raids had been authorised. The Hyundai IT booth at the IFA electronics fair in Berlin was visited on Saturday by German customs police. Police seized flat-screen TVs from the South Korean company's...
[September 1, 2008, 9:00]
News Burst: Massive paedophile operation leads to arrests
News Thousands of paedophilic images -- which included images of children being sexually abused -- were also seized in raids across the UK, in which 12 police forces were involved. Thirteen suspected paedophiles were arrested Wednesday, and 27 computers...
[January 17, 2001, 12:54]
News Roundup: Music industry cracks down on Napster
News Belgian sources claimed Friday that police raids were already underway. If you download MP3 files from the Internet, you run the risk of having your details sent to the police. IFPI's Belgian arm has already sent the details of 100 Napster users to...
[February 19, 2001, 16:31]
UK suspects arrested in Internet paedophile crackdown
News At 06:00 GMT, the National Crime Squad (NCS) coordinated dawn raids on the 12 British targets, and computers and software were seized as evidence. Police forces across England and Wales took part in the biggest ever international operation against...
[November 28, 2001, 11:31]
Huge raid on alleged Net paedophiles
News Greater Manchester's obscene publication's unit co-ordinated a series of raids across the country at 7am this morning with the help of 25 forces across England, Scotland and Wales. A simultaneous raid of 45 suspected Net paedophile homes has been...
[March 27, 2001, 10:50]
Music industry to snoop on Napster fans
News Strain explained that, while he couldn't confirm reports of raids against users, he was aware that the details of some Napster users had been passed to the police. The music industry is developing software that will automatically detect people who...
[February 19, 2001, 14:21]
