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To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in ensuring the delivery of mental health reports to children’s hearings following the publication of Children’s Hearings Representative Group - Report on Children’s Hearings Time Intervals 2002-03.
Miss Annabel Goldie (West of Scotland) (Con)
(WQ 26.3.04)
“Police to target national security, racist and homophobic crime: National security and racist and homophobic crime are among the areas being targeted by Grampian Police in their new annual plan. The policing plan, for the year from today, also calls for the public to work with the force to disrupt drug supply and reduce demand. There will be continued efforts to reduce street crime and housebreaking, to promote safer driving and to address local problems with residents. . .” Press and Journal
Press release
“Force Plans Priorities for Next Twelve Months” Grampian Police
Posted by MM on Fri 2nd Apr 2004 at 2:03 pm“Police to use virtual ID parades: Police forces in Scotland are to drop traditional line-ups in favour of a new “virtual” identity parade. The Video Identification Parade Electronic Recording system (Viper) uses a national database of volunteers’ images to compile a video line-up. . .” BBC 2.4.04.
“Virtual identity parades lined up: Virtual identity parades are to be used by police in Edinburgh for the first time to save witnesses coming face-to-face with criminals. . .” Evening News
Press release
“New ‘virtual’ identity parades: The Solicitor General, Elish Angiolini QC saw a demonstration in Edinburgh today of a new identification system that will introduce ?virtual? identity parades for criminals and make the process of identification more convenient and less stressful for victims and other witnesses. . .” Scot. Exec
[. . .] “The project, known as VIPER (Video Identification Parade Electronic Recording) is a centralised system overseen by the Home Office for preparing video identity parades and supplying them electronically to police stations across the country. Suspects are recorded at a VIPER studio in a connected police force and the image transmitted to the National VIPER Bureau in Wakefield. . .” Itm Group
Posted by MM on Thu 1st Apr 2004 at 10:34 pm“New policing measures set to build on past success: A New wave of policing measures in Aberdeen will be introduced tomorrow - with the emphasis on neighbourhood issues [. . .] The new division, in Queen Street, was established to build on the success of intelligence-led policing (ILP), and since then police have reported a marked reduction in crime. . .” Press and Journal
Research
Intelligence-led policing. Australian Institute of Criminology.
Security Intelligence in the United Kingdom. Political Studies Association Conference Paper.
Posted by MM on Thu 1st Apr 2004 at 2:03 pm