A powerful new national crime agency, similar to the USA’s FBI will lead the UK’s fight against serious and organised crime, strengthen policing at the border and make sure local police are linked up to work nationally and overseas, the Home Secretary announced today. Organised crimes such as child abuse, drug and people smuggling, illegal immigration, cyber-crime and fraud cost the public up to £40 billion each year; and impact on people’s everyday lives. National response The new agency will give a national overview of organised crime for the first time and allow crime fighting team...

Sir Norman Bettison is chief constable of West Yorkshire Police and the Association of Chief Police Officers lead on Prevent spoke today on the Prevent Review that was announced by the Home Secretary, Theresa May in Parliament yesterday. Refer to Infologue.com - Theresa May rejuvenates the Prevent element of the CONTEST Strategy 8 June 2011. Prevent is an integral part of the UK counter-terrorism strategy, known as CONTEST, which focuses on the most significant security threat to the UK today – the threat from international terrorism.The aim of CONTEST is to reduce the risk to the UK and ...

“Osama bin Laden may be dead, but the threat from al-Qaeda-inspired terrorism is not. Indeed, the threat level from international terrorism remains at “Severe”, meaning an attack is highly likely. That threat comes both from foreign nationals and from terrorists born and bred in Britain” said the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Theresa May, whilst making a statement on the review of the Government’s strategy to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism, in parliament yesterday, writes Infologue.com Editor, Bobby Logue. Theresa May then went on to say that t...

Almost 9,000 vehicles, with the Ford Transit being the most popular target, across the UK were stolen in just 36 days at the beginning of 2011, equating to one stolen every six minutes, writes Infologue.com Editor Bobby Logue. The statistics have been revealed ahead of AVCIS’ Car Crime Awareness Week, which takes place on 13-19 June 2011. The initiative aims to raise the public’s awareness of vehicle crime methods in order to drive down offences. The trade in stolen high value vehicles was highlighted recently following the recovery of 18 high-value stolen vehicles from South Africa, the ...

The Association of Security Consultants (ASC) encourages the development of ideas for the advancement of risk and security management in the UK through the award of an annual prize.  The ‘Imbert Prize’ is named after one of the esteemed patrons of the ASC, Lord Imbert of New Romney CVO QPM JP, former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and Lord Lieutenant of Greater London The prize has three separate elements and the ASC has pleasure in announcing the nominations for 2011. 1. An award of £1,000 for a selected dissertation submitted by an academic institution.  Cranfield, Leiceste...

Following a request by the Home Secretary to help promote greater public trust in crime statistics, the National Statistician has today published her report. Recommendations from Jil Matheson's independent review include: the Office for National Statistics should take responsibility for the independent reporting and publication of crime statistics presentation of crime statistics should be improved to provide clarity about the coverage of the two different sources: the British Crime Survey and police recorded crime there should be transparent decision-making on changes that affec...

With World Environment Day and Recycle Week taking place respectively on the 5th and the 20th to 26th of June, this is set to become the most environmental month of the year. The British Security Industry Association (BSIA) is therefore reminding businesses that security measures can indeed be sustainable whilst still providing considerable cost savings. Thanks to the continuous technological development within the private security industry, measures such as access control and information destruction are now being utilised beyond their traditional security function. Access control and visito...

A new immigration removal centre, Morton Hall, has been officially opened by the immigration minister Damian Green today, increasing capacity in the detention estate as the government intensifies enforcement activity across the country. Once full, the former prison will accommodate 392 men in order to facilitate their removal from the UK. They will include illegal over-stayers and failed asylum seekers as well as foreign national prisoners. Immigration removal centres (IRCs) give the UK Border Agency the ability to detain people while their removal from the UK is being organised. They also e...

From today, you can access innovative applications developed using street-level crime information by visiting the home of police data for England and Wales. Launched in January this year, Police.uk allows you to find out what crime or anti-social behaviour has happened via a postcode search. You can find April's data on the site from today.   But it also makes data available in an easy-to-use format which has allowed developers to create applications for smart phones, as well as alternative web platforms. One of eight products which people with an interest in crime information are being...

The French authorities (OCRIEST), with support from Europol, took action on 24 May 2011 against an organised network involved in commercially falsifying and distributing EU identity documents. In total there were five arrests at four different addresses across Paris. The Dutch Royal Marechaussee took simultaneous action in the Netherlands against people linked to those arrested in France. Those arrested had been involved in the production and distribution of forged British passports, birth certificates and driving licences. The price charged for a set of these forged documents was around 3500...