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National landscape streamlined as ACPO role reviewed
The role of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) will be reviewed by the Government but will include many of the functions currently performed by the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) which will be scrapped within two years, the Home Secretary announced this week.
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IPCC report to highlight common failings
A report on common failings in call handling and domestic abuse will be released next month by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) following an investigation which found two call handlers failed to correctly process a call from a woman later killed by her former boyfriend.
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Inconsistency in domestic abuse programmes
Coordination of information flows, within the Probation Service and from outside agencies, is crucial to successful risk management involved in domestic violence perpetrator programmes, the first report of its kind has concluded.
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The cost of standards
Executive Feature
The police service faces the difficult task of addressing public
concerns and preventing corruption while the pressure increases to cut
costs. Police Professional looks at the difficult balancing act of
improving standards from structural change and reducing bureaucracy
while the money available becomes scarce.
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Opportunity in the wind
Executive Feature
Former chief superintendent Jim Dale examines areas of policing where
it would be appropriate to apply transformation and take advantage of
the opportunities that come from the current financial crisis.
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Hi-tech document analysis
Technology
A new software tool has been developed to assist questioned document
examiners in the analysis and comparison of handwriting samples.
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New code to control sale of stolen mobiles
Technology
Mobile phone recycling companies are signing up to a code of practice
to check whether the handsets they are buying are stolen. Announced by
Crime Prevention Minister James Brokenshire last week, the code will
see mobile phone recycling companies check the details of every phone
they are offered against a national database, which lists mobile phones
that have been blocked, stolen or voluntarily registered.
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Rapid deployment ANPR system
Technology
A new rapid deployment automatic numberplate recognition (ANPR) system
has been launched, designed for use in a wide range of covert and overt
applications, in both mobile and static modes.
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