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01 March 1997

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France: telephone-tapping up: the annual report of the French National Commission for Control of Intercepts and Security (CNCIS) said that police agencies were making increased demands for phone-taps, up from 4,492 to 4,603 warrants. The CNCIS had also authorised an increase in the number of lines that can be tapped simultaneously from 1,180 to 1,540. Reuter, 17.4.96.

UK-Poland agreement signed: The UK and Poland signed a mutual cooperation Declaration on organised crime on 27 February covering "swift, effective extradition", drugs, arms and explosives trafficking, and the confiscation of "the proceeds of crime". "The Declaration is modelled on a similar bilateral agreement on international crime which Poland signed with the USA in July 1996." Home Office press release, 27.2.97.

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