Africa: Police Chiefs Consider Joint Operations
Bosco R. Asiimwe Kigali — Organisations of regional police chiefs in Africa have agreed to carry out joint operations on crime management. The decision was reached during the Africa Regional Police Chiefs‘ Organisations (RPCO)‘ meeting which ended yesterday in Kigali. The two-day meeting brought together regional police bodies including; Eastern Africa Police Chiefs Cooperation Organisation […]
UK training Saudi forces used to crush Arab spring
Jamie Doward and Philippa Stewart Britain is training Saudi Arabia’s national guard – the elite security force deployed during the recent protests in Bahrain – in public order enforcement measures and the use of sniper rifles. The revelation has outraged human rights groups, which point out that the Foreign Office recognises that the kingdom’s human […]
European Commission wants to immunize DHS collaborators in travel surveillance and control
A leaked copy of the latest draft of a proposed “Agreement between the United States of America and the European Union on the use transfer of Passenger Name Record [PNR] data to the United States Department of Homeland Security” has been published by the civil liberties watchdog and investigative reporting group Statewatch. The leaked draft […]
Airport security: Intent to deceive?
Can the science of deception detection help to catch terrorists? Sharon Weinberger takes a close look at the evidence for it. Sharon Weinberger In August 2009, Nicholas George, a 22-year-old student at Pomona College in Claremont, California, was going through a checkpoint at Philadelphia International Airport when he was pulled aside for questioning. As the […]
5 EU Nations Contribute Officers to Frontex Operation at Bulgarian-Turkish Border
In early March 2011, Frontex made permanent its land operation „Poseidon“ to patrol the land border between Greece and Turkey over the huge rise in the number of illegal immigrants which crossed into the EU at that spot in 2010. Simultaneously, Frontex announced the expansion of Operation Poseidon to include the Bulgarian-Turkish land border. „There […]
Occupation of Standard & Poor’s against the G8
THE G8 IS EVERYWHERE, SO ARE WE ! Thursday, May 26, the activists occupy Standard & Poor’s While the financial crisis hits a nearly bancrupt Europe, things have yet to change. The problem remains the same: Faced with private financial crisis, the only proposed solution is a policy of public austerity. It ensures that the […]
Olympics training launched for police, fire and ambulance services
David Woods The National Policing Improvement Agency, working together with the Association of Chief Police Officers, has launched an online training package for police, fire and ambulance personnel across the UK to help prepare them for the challenges of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Games will require the largest ever peacetime policing […]
Protest at shareholders meeting EADS, arms supplier to the Libyan war
No arms for dictators – no nuclear arms Amsterdam, May 24– On May 26 the Dutch Campagne tegen Wapenhandel will organise a picket line at the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS) shareholders meeting in Amsterdam. EADS is one of the biggest European arms producers. Due to inadequate arms export regulation the company can […]
Police Deny Knowledge Of Undercover Cop
Paul Fontaine Icelandic police have denied they knew that purported environmental activist Mark Stone was actually British policeman Mark Kennedy. One Icelandic MP believes the case should become a foreign affairs matter. As Grapevine reported, British policeman Mark Kennedy participated in the Kárahnjúkar protests, and told the Guardian that he had taken part in major […]
Europe must accept the boat people fleeing Libya
MSF criticizes inconsistent European policies claiming to protect civilians by engaging in a war while closing its borders to them Paris, May 19, 2011 – Médecins Sans Frontières is publishing an open letter today in 11 newspapers * to the leaders of the States of the European Union involved in the war in Libya. In […]
Call for a Transnational Meeting in Tunisia
We, students, precarious workers, unemployed, and activists of Europe and North Africa met in Tunis to share our knowledge and begin a process of common struggles. The struggles that have swept across North Africa over the last few months spoke to the entire globe because the absence of a future for the new generations was […]
Battle Brews Over FBI’s Warrantless GPS Tracking
By Kim Zetter Kathy Thomas knew she was under surveillance. The animal rights and environmental activist had been trailed daily by cops over several months, and had even been stopped on occasion by police and FBI agents. But when the surveillance seemed to halt suddenly in mid-2005 after she confronted one of the agents, she […]
G8 vs INTERNET: Call for creative action
The Internet is the place where we meet, speak, create, educate ourselves and organize. However, as we are at a turning point in early web history, it could either become a prime tool for improving our societies, knowledge and culture, or a totalitarian tool of suveillance and control. After 15 years of fighting the sharing […]
INDECT at EUROPOLTECH 2011
INDECT participated in EUROPOLTECH 2011, the International Fair of Technology and Equipment for the Police and National Security Services which took place on April 13–15, 2011. All major manufacturers of modern equipment and world-class system solutions for police services were present at the Fair and the Conference. A number of security related business companies from […]
Police buy software to map suspects‘ digital movements
Geotime software, bought by the Met, collates data from social networking sites, satnavs, mobiles and financial transactions Britain’s largest police force is using software that can map nearly every move suspects and their associates make in the digital world, prompting an outcry from civil liberties groups. The Metropolitan police has bought Geotime, a security programme […]
Details about the hungarian „Mitras“-operation
„Mitras“ (Migration, Traffic and Security) was the hungarian one-week-operation against „illegal migration“ and organised as a follow-up of „Hermes“ (that was ruled by belgian presidency last year). The operation in the end of April was carried out by 22 Member States. The aim was to analyse „main flows of illegal immigration“ on the main transport […]
2 Dozen Khimki Defenders Detained
By Alexander Bratersky Riot police roughly broke up a protest over the destruction of the Khimki forest, briefly detaining two dozen activists and beating one so badly that he required hospitalization, environmentalists said. About 200 people gathered in the town of Khimki on Sunday for an unsanctioned rally over the centuries-old Moscow region forest, part […]
G8 Interior Ministers begin meeting Monday in Paris
Interior ministers from the powerful Group of Eight (G8) nations begin meetings Monday in Paris to discuss the important issue of drug trafficking, specifically trafficking of cocaine across the Atlantic Ocean. The two-day meeting is being presided over by French Interior Minister Claude Gueant, as France currently holds the rotating G8 presidency, official sources said. […]
Greece rejects reinstatement of border controls within EU Schengen free passport zone over illegal migration
Greece rejects a backtrack in EU’s Schengen free passport zone treaty through the reinstatement of border controls within member countries, said Greek Citizen Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis on Wednesday. „The combat against illegal migration is a European matter. Greece will not agree in any case to a backtrack in the EU Schengen treaty. But we […]
Spy Planes Play Indispensable Role in bin Laden Raid
By NATHAN HODGE The raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan represents probably the biggest success so far of what the military calls „persistent surveillance,“ the ability to relay vast amounts of digital imagery through the unblinking eye of robotic aircraft or other spy gear. Details about the surveillance equipment that may have been […]