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Police question PDA efficiency gains
News Despite calls for more money to give all front-line police officers access to PDAs and help boost time spent on the beat, not all officers that have tested the technology are convinced of its worth. In July, the Home Office announced an extra £25m...
[November 11, 2008, 11:59]
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]
U.S. Vice presidential limousine and killed a pedestrian, police said no sp
Blog The police said it would open the investigation will not be special treatment ? Police are investigating the ? Maryland police are investigating the accident and details of the concrete process is not yet clear whether it was Biden's limousine...
[November 16, 2009, 5:27]
Police right to hand over seized hardware, says judge
News Solicitors are seeking to go to the Supreme Court, after an appeal court ruling that the police were acting within the law when they handed hardware and financial records to a private copyright-enforcement company.
[November 17, 2009, 16:26]
Police warn of IT expertise shortfall
News Police and experts warned on Monday that prosecutions are collapsing or being conducted unfairly because of a shortage of expert witnesses with IT skills. According to the Police Information Technology Organisation (PITO), the problem is that...
[February 28, 2006, 11:55]
Police expert calls for open-source data tools
News Police data systems should be based on open-source software, according to a senior member of the Association of Chief Police Officers. Currently police forces use a patchwork of proprietary and open source systems.
[June 23, 2009, 16:45]
Police use UV marking to fight mobile theft
News London police are fighting back against mobile phone thieves by using ultraviolet marker pens to label thousands of handsets. The operation, which is currently underway in 20 London boroughs, is an attempt to deter thieves and will also make it...
[February 28, 2002, 12:59]
Police target chatrooms in latest paedophile arrests
News British police arrested more than 70 people and seized computer equipment on Wednesday morning in what is thought to be the UK's largest-ever crackdown on Internet paedophiles. Thirty-four police forces across the UK took part in the operation...
[April 24, 2002, 11:23]
Police in talks over pocket PC-crime detection tool
News Police are in talks with companies about deploying a tool to detect evidence of illegal activity on PCs, aiming for it to be as easy to use as a breathalyser. Officers in the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) e-crime group are looking...
[June 4, 2009, 8:37]
Acpo: Police swamped by CCTV data
News The police cannot deal with the amount of information generated by CCTV cameras, according to the director of information for the Association of Chief Police Officers. Ian Readhead, director of information for the Acpo Criminal Records Office, said...
[May 15, 2009, 12:14]
Police arrest suspected virus writers
News The Metropolitan Police, acting in conjunction with Finnish law-enforcement authorities, arrested three suspected virus writers on Tuesday. A 63-year-old man in Suffolk, a 28-year-old man in Scotland, and a 19-year-old man in Finland were arrested...
[June 27, 2006, 16:45]
Police swoop on Internet paedophiles
News Police arrested 30 people in a series of arrests across Britain on Monday morning as part of a crackdown into Internet child pornography. Some of the pictures involved children as young as five, police said.
[May 20, 2002, 16:56]
Police e-crime unit set for gov't go-ahead
News The UK's proposed central e-crime police unit is close to securing the necessary government funding to make it a reality, according to one of the architects of the project. Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe show in London, the Metropolitan Police...
[April 28, 2008, 8:24]
Police use face-mapping tools to identify abuse victims
News British and Scottish police forces executed search warrants on 12 houses throughout the UK at 06:00 GMT, and seized thousands of files containing images of children being abused. All information gathered through the help of the new software will be...
[November 28, 2001, 14:12]
Police And The Internet
Talkback I wonder how you can say that it is an invasion of privacy for the police to look at a Face Book, Myspace or Friends Reunited page.i feel sure that they would only be interested in criminals or ex offenders as they dont have time to look at every...
[July 25, 2008, 10:09]
Police crack down on Net child pornographers
News Experts agree that paedophilia on the Net is on the increase as the police launch their biggest crackdown yet on Internet child pornography in the UK. On Thursday 27 addresses across the UK were raided following six months' investigation by the...
[December 10, 1999, 12:49]
Police to investigate Linux desktops
News A large project to build an information systems strategy for the UK's police forces is to examine the option of Linux desktops. Project Valiant, launched by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) last June, will create a systems strategy...
[January 23, 2002, 10:03]
Police database is 'major new weapon' against crime
News A new police national database has been welcomed as a "major new weapon in the battle against crime" by the man who investigated police intelligence handling in the Soham Inquiry. In his 2004 report, which followed the murder of two Soham...
[April 6, 2009, 15:56]
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]
Police slammed for 'hysterical' response to EU privacy directive
News He also criticised its claim that the deletion of all traffic logs would seriously hamper police attempts to combat cybercrime as "misleading". It claimed that current proposals to delete all records of online transactions once a Web session ends...
[August 13, 2001, 12:52]
