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01 December 1996

Police: Revised code of practice Data Protection News issue no 26 Summer 1996 pp22-33. Review the police code of practice regarding access to data held by them and accessible to them. Copies of the Code itself are available from: IT Security and Data Protection Manager Essex Police Headquarters PO Box 2, Springfield Chelmsford Essex CM2 6DA. Cost: 5.00.

Lessons from Tragedies: a report on deaths in custody in the Metropolitan police district 1986-95. Deaths in Custody Working Group of the Community-Police Consultative Group (CP10/96) 4.6.96. This is a preliminary report that came out of the deaths in police custody of two young black men Brian Douglas and Wayne Douglas. An appendix lists 213 deaths in police custody between 1986-1995.

Substance abuse: Dr Corson's and Dr Stoughton's hand-held hazard, Shaun Trevisick. Squall No. 13 (Summer) 1996 pp26-27. This piece investigates the "dubious history" of CS gas sprays which are currently being tested by British police.

Listening in to crime David Pickover. Police Review 19.7.96, pp22-23. This article welcomes a recent House of Lords decision that covert listening devices are admissible as evidence in court.

Anti-roads protests the community and the police Superintendent Daniel Donnelly. Police Journal Vol. LXIX no. 3 (July-September) 1996. This piece provides a particularly bland overview of anti- roads protests in general and the M77 protest in Strathclyde, Scotland in particular. Donnelly concludes: "A final analysis reveals that community police relations are back to normal and the events of 1995 are now in the past."