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Prime Minister raises expectations
The Prime Minister’s promise to provide sufficient government funding to maintain current police and community support officer numbers up to 2013 has received a sceptical response.
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Sex offender disclosure scheme goes nationwide
The Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme will begin its national rollout following a successful pilot stage. The rollout across all of England and Wales will begin with a phased introduction to 18 forces in August. The remainder of the 43 forces will follow by March 2011.
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Confident on neighbourhoods
Executive Feature
The Prime Minister has launched a strategy to develop neighbourhood policing, greater partnership working and provide the public with better access to tackle issues of most concern, particularly anti-social behaviour. Police Professional spoke with the Policing Minister this week to discuss the implications of the strategy.
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Formula for success
Executive Feature
Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have devised a mathematical solution to predict crime hotspots and their diffusion as a result of enforcement interaction. Through joint working with police in Los Angeles, they hope to develop better use of the law enforcement technique anywhere in the world.
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MIDAS technology gets the go-ahead
Technology
Police officers across the country will soon be able to check an individual’s identity at the roadside within two minutes following the introduction of a new mobile fingerprinting device later this year.
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Students team up with police to offer crime-prevention advice
Bright Ideas
Cumbria Constabulary has been working with young people in Whitehaven during the school half-term holiday to share crime-prevention advice with residents in the area. Youngsters from local youth clubs spent some of the school holiday with police community support officers (PCSOs) delivering home safety tips across the area. They accompanied officers as they knocked on doors in the neighbourhood offering crime-prevention advice and SmartWater marking kits.
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New alarms help elderly feel safer
Bright Ideas
A new design of personal alarm is being offered to elderly people in Gwent to make them feel safer when walking the city’s streets. Newport city centre neighbourhood policing team is handing out the alarms, which are designed to be fitted to walking sticks, crutches, zimmer frames,mobility scooters and wheelchairs.
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