Policing - new material (51)
01 March 2000
Annual Report 1999-2000. Home Office (April) 2000, pp116. The report includes complex expenditure plans on how the Home Office will use the ?285 million "cash boost" from the last budget to help build a "modern crime fighting machine". It is available from the Home Office website on www.homeoffice.gov.uk
Piggy in the middle, John Anthony. Police Review 11.2.00., pp31-32. Article by a former Metropolitan police officer who compares the halcyon days of 1968 with the plummeting morale following the Macpherson report into the police handling of the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence. "Now", Anthony laments, "the police are caught up in the incredibly convoluted and polite game of keeping within the rules."
A fair cop, Robert Crampton. Times magazine 8.4.00, pp20-26. Interview with Sir John Stevens, commissioner of the Metropolitan police.
Neighbourhood Warden schemes: an overview, Jessica Jacobson and Esther Saville. Crime Reduction Research Series paper 2 (Home Office Policing and Reducing Crime Unit) 1999 pp44, ISBN 1-84082-349-6.
An elite force primed for action, Eitan Meyr. Jane's International Police Review Update, February 2000, pp 4-5. Report on Italy's secretive 100-strong NOCS anti-terrorist unit, which was established in the late 1970s. The article highlights the unit's "flexible command structure", "battle-experienced and mature operators", thorough training, and sophisticated weapons and technology as reasons for their effectiveness. The unit has developed into a corps fighting organised crime, drug trafficking organisations, protecting VIPs and key government personnel and assisting law enforcement agencies.
Turning the corner in Albania, Dr. Mark Galeotti. Jane's International Police Review, January/February 2000, p 21. About reforms the Albanian police force is undergoing to face an increase in organised crime, smuggling and refugee crises. A new generation of officers is being trained to counter the traditional factionalism, corruption, criminality and heavy-handedness which has characterised the force. The military is expected to cooperate in a technical support role. International cooperation with countries enjoying greater resources aiming to prevent Albania from becoming a criminal haven (Italian presence since 1997 and the EU's Multinational Advisory Police Element (MAPE), active since May 1997) is seen as indispensable. Stresses the need to identify and adopt appropriate models from abroad, particularly Italy, which can be fruitfully translated to Albania.
Parliamentary debates
Police Commons 3.2.00. cols. 1222-1266
Police Funding (Lincolnshire) Commons 10.2.00. cols. 501-508
Police Funding (Avon and Somerset) Commons 16.2.00. cols. 1076-1084
Police Numbers Lords 8.3.00. cols. 1039-1041