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Policing - new material (10)

01 December 1994

Policing the police Hilary Kitchin. Legal Action pp6-7 August 1994. On issues of police accountability raised by the Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill. The battle for Orgreave ten years on Tony Moore. Police pp40 & 42 (June) 1994. The author was responsible for running the public order course at the Police Staff College at Bramshill during the Orgreave picket. He concludes that the 425 000 out- of-court compensation paid to picketing miners' by South Yorkshire police for assault shows that police "evidence gathering techniques...were completely inadequate."

Winston Silcott: from the inside speaking out Tessa Mayes, Guardian 13.8.94. This is an interview with Winston Silcott that took place in Swalesdale Prison Kent following the much publicised 10 000 interim compensation payment for his wrongful conviction for the murder of PC Blakelock in 1985.

The Offenders Index: a short guide Home Office July 1994, Covers 1963-1993 with nearly 6 million "criminal histories", Available from: S1 Division (Offenders Index) Home Office Room 841 50 Queen Anne's Gate London SW1H 9AT.

Squeezing the assets Patrick Hook. Police Review 30.9.94 pp22- 23. Looks at the introduction of the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1994 and its effectiveness in seizing assets assumed to have been bought with trafficking proceeds.

Policing Today The first issue of a new glossy magazine from the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) carries articles by ACPO President Sir John Smith on the government's review policy; the right to silence; Protecting police on the streets?; and Robert Reiner on "A truce in the war between police and academe" in which he describes the "happy rapprochement between academic researchers and the police" based on the "lucrative" source of research money even in recessionary times for universities in providing courses for police officers and carrying out policy oriented research. Policing Today Major Exhibitions & Conferences Ltd 305 Ballards Lane London N12 8NP. 20 a year.