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Deploying Control Plane Policing
White Papers This paper will describe a new Cisco IOS Security Infrastructure feature: Control Plane Policing (CoPP), as well as deployment recommendations and guidelines. CoPP is used to increase security on Cisco routers by protecting the route processor from...
[July 4, 2007, 2:11]
Smartphones set to transform national policing
News Handheld devices will transform national policing within three years, according to the chief information officer for police technology in the UK. Chief information officer of the National Policing Improvement Agency, Richard Earland, predicted the...
[December 17, 2008, 8:28]
Policing the unacceptable - Bringing paedophiles to justice
News It is a big problem and we don't have the luxury of sitting at a computer and policing the Internet," Reynolds adds. Paedophiles hiding their preferences for child sex are being given an outlet by the Internet according to the police.
[March 22, 1999, 12:25]
Policing the unacceptable - Bringing paedophiles to justice
Talkback Thanks for your contact. I contacted Anna Raeburn, the radio agony aunt (http://www.lbc973.co.uk/showdj.asp? DJID=29995), privately on your behalf and she gave the following advice. There is very little that you can do about your husband without...
[January 17, 2006, 13:48]
Policing the unacceptable - Bringing paedophiles to justice
Talkback How do you go about reporting someone for paedophilia when you are very scared of that person? My husband has been addicted to pornography, and in particular child pornography, for many years. When my daughter was just 12 years old (seven years ago...
[January 15, 2006, 0:03]
Government puts onus for chatroom policing on ISPs
News Whilst Internet Service Providers (ISPs) say they are not equipped to crack down on paedophiles abusing Internet chatrooms, the government and police are showing an unwillingness to grasp the severity of the situation.
[March 20, 2001, 15:15]
Policing the web (or not)
Blog One question that has always gnawed at me about the whole internet malarkey is the issue of content regulation. Could we? Should we? Well, just over a month ago, I attended a Westminster Media Forum (basically a talking shop involving government...
[April 23, 2007, 15:59]
E-policing move reduces bureaucracy
News Police officers in Wiltshire, who spend around 25 percent of their time on paperwork, will have some of this burden reduced by an effort to integrate databases so information needs to be entered only once.
[June 20, 2002, 9:53]
Watchdog warns Net policing will go unchecked
News The government has failed to prevent human rights abuses occurring under new high-tech investigation capabilities granted to law enforcers, according to a security service representative. The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act, passed...
[April 3, 2001, 15:24]
Policing Web Usage: Securing the Back Door
White Papers Every organization's IT infrastructure is in danger from malicious code such as viruses, Trojan horses and spyware - all of which are just as readily downloaded or transmitted via webmail and other web applications as they are by traditional email.
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Dixon of Dot Green
Leader Proposals that IT professionals should take a more active role in policing the Internet are to be welcomed. The usual civil liberty concerrns of part-time policing -- search, arrest, confiscation -- might seem to have few parallels online, yet all...
[December 2, 2004, 11:35]
Police to spend £40m on fingerprint biometrics
News The National Policing Improvement Agency is planning to spend up to £40m on mobile fingerprinting devices. Home secretary Jacqui Smith announced £25m of further spending in this area in policing plans released in July.
[August 22, 2008, 11:29]
Tories attack gov't over cybercrime delay
News The Tories have launched a stinging attack on the government's failure to pay £1.3m to fund a national e-crime policing unit. Davis criticised the Home Office's delay in providing the £1.3m start-up costs for the Policing Central E-crime Unit (PCEU...
[April 4, 2008, 8:46]
E-crime unit 'on track' despite funding delay
News Plans for a national UK cybercrime policing unit remain on track despite the government stalling on funding, according to the Metropolitan Police Service's e-crime chief . Detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie, one of the architects of the...
[June 16, 2008, 8:39]
Improving Data Quality for Operational Efficiency and Freedom of Information
White Papers Gloucestershire Constabulary, a UK police force with 1,280 officers (plus 786 civilian staff and 170 Special Constables), is responsible for policing 560,000 people in 270,000 hectares (approximately 1,050 square miles) of urban and rural...
[December 27, 2006, 0:00]
Mobile tech to keep police on the beat
News The prime minister has pledged to arm police with thousands of "handheld computers" so officers can make more effective use of their time and increase the amount of frontline policing they do. Mobile policing technology got a second mention in the...
[September 27, 2007, 8:42]
The bobby goes digital
News The Public Safety Radio Communications Project -- to be developed jointly by Motorola and BT (quote: BT) -- is set to revolutionise policing by providing access to back office criminal intelligence to officers on the beat.
[March 8, 2000, 15:09]
Police to get thousands more mobile devices
News In May, policing minister Tony McNulty announced a £50m investment to furnish 27 police forces with 10,000 mobile computers. The new funding will pay for an additional 15,000 handheld computers by March 2010, bringing the total number to around 30...
[July 23, 2008, 9:25]
Microsoft and Cisco clash on security
News As the effects of malicious virus and worm attacks, such as those involving the Sobig and MyDoom viruses, become more costly, companies are looking for solutions that combine traditional virus scanning with network policing to keep attacks from...
[September 17, 2004, 13:00]
Is the WEEE directive in trouble?
Blog Comment The view of the Agency is that consultation work (advising companies licenced to recycle waste) is to be dropped in preference to Enforcement action and policing. Whether this carries though is another matter, but there's certainly an increased...
[September 12, 2008, 12:54]
