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“Call to name and shame asbo pests” Evening Express
Posted by MM on Wed 31st May 2006 at 7:07 am“Football clubs tackle crime” Herald
“Early Touches that take children off streets and on to the pitch” Herald
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“Kick It, Kick Off”
Update
“Police stop and search 100 youths in purge on weapons” Evening Times
“Police tight-lipped on knife amnesty” Evening Times
“Heartened by response to knife amnesty” Courier 2.6.06
“Horrifying array of weapons” Evening Telegraph 1.6.06
Following posted on 30.5.06
“We must get to the root of this street violence” Scotsman
Following posted on 29.5.06
“Police sharpen knives stance with Capital pubs crackdown” Evening News
“Hundreds of cops in blitz on city gangs” Evening Times
“Two people dead in Glasgow violence” Herald
“No end to mayhem in city” Evening Times
“Fight we face to secure a Safer Scotland” Evening Times
Press release
“Bin Your Knife - It Could Save a Life” Tayside Police
The Justice 2 Committee will meet today at 2.00 pm in Committee Room 4 and will take evidence Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Bill and consider Petition PE862 calling for the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Executive to conduct a full review of the current system for dealing with and monitoring convicted child sex offenders.
Committee page
The Audit Committee will meet at 9.30 am in Committee Room 2 today Tuesday 30th May and (inter alia) will receive a briefing from Audit Scotland on the report entitled “No hiding place: the National Fraud Initiative in Scotland”.
Committee page
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CjScotland 17.5.06: Public sector fraud initiative Scottish results
“Police pact to target Mr Bigs” Courier
“New crime agency joins Scots forces” Evening News
“New crime squad joins police in ‘Mr Bigs’ crackdown” Scotsman
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SOCA
Update
“Nite Zone scheme praised after fall in road accidents” Evening Times
Following posted on 09.5.06
“Nite Zone scheme to expand as crime falls” Evening Times
“Popular plan still hit by teething troubles” Evening Times
“Police face gym tests” Scotsman
“Police must be fit for the job” Scotsman
“Beat bobbies in bulge battle” Evening Telegraph
“Police body hails fitness move” Courier
“Fit for duty? Not if PC Plod has his way” Times
“Foreign criminal jailed in Scotland to attend bail appeal hearing ” Scottish TV 2.6.06
“Police tracking foreign criminals” BBC
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CjScotland 10.5.06: Foreign prisoners’ deportation and Scotland
There was a debate in Parliment yesterday Thursday 25th May on the following motion.
S2M-3983# Trish Godman: The Trafficking of Impoverished Women into Forced Prostitution in Scotland—That the Parliament is seriously concerned over reports that criminal gangs are engaged in the evil trafficking of impoverished women into Scotland, England and Wales who are then compelled, often by threats or use of physical violence and degradation, to work as prostitutes; notes that this is a problem throughout Scotland, but particularly in the west of Scotland; believes that Scotland cannot claim immunity from this unsavoury international sexual trading of poor women from European, Asian, African and South American countries; acknowledges the difficulties involved in tracking down these predatory traffickers in women, but believes that the Scottish Executive, in co-operation with the UK Government and our police service, should do all that is necessary to bring such wrongdoers to court where it is hoped that they will, upon conviction, receive condign punishment.
“5000 women are smuggled into Britain every year in the 21st century slave trade” Sunday Herald
“It’s time to sign the convention and end modern slave trade” Sunday Herald
“Labour MEP urges Blair to move on trafficking” Holyrood.com
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“City’s sex industry worth £6.6m a year and growing” Herald
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Council of Europe site on the fight against trafficking in human beings
Westminster Joint Committee on Human Rights (for Human Trafficking Inquiry)
Official report 25.5.06: debate on human trafficking