ADAPTING TO PROTEST– NURTURING THE BRITISH MODEL OF POLICING
KEY FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS At the majority of everyday public events, the British policing model is deployed successfully. But at a small number of more highly charged events, such as large scale protests, its core values are being tested and are in danger of being undermined. Download full report on http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk
Improved police cooperation between EU and Norway
On Thursday 26 November, Norway will join the EU’s decision to step up cross-border cooperation, in particular to combat terrorism and cross-border crime (also known as the Prüm Treaty). [se2009.eu] Norway’s accession means that EU Member States will have access to Norway’s DNA, fingerprint and vehicle registers, and vice versa. It also means that Norwegian […]
UNODC hosts regional meeting on justice and security
[unodc.org] The UNODC Regional Office for Eastern Africa has organized a regional ministerial meeting on 23-24 November with experts and ministers from all 13 countries in the region to discuss and endorse a new programme for the period 2009-2012 that will address environmental crime, corruption, terrorism, human trafficking, prison reform, piracy, HIV and AIDS and […]
Microsoft Demands Takedown of COFEE
See "What is cofee" (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) and find the files mirrored on euro-police.org: cofee.zip cofee-guide.zip Read more: http://cryptome.org/0001/ms-cofee.htm
FRONTEX operation at Romania’s external border
[iasiinvest.ro] The fifth stage of Jupiter joint operation held by the European Agency FRONTEX (European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union) was held for two weeks at Romania’s eastern and northern border, the press office of the Border Police informs on Wednesday. […]
EU stalls bank data deal with US ahead of Lisbon Treaty
VALENTINA POP Opposition from four member states to a draft agreement between the EU and US allowing the use of banking data in anti-terrorist investigations is likely to delay a decision until after 1 December, drawing the European Parliament into the decision making process. [euobserver.com] Citing data privacy concerns, Germany, Austria, France and Finland are […]
EU draft council decision on sharing of banking data with the US and restructuring of SWIFT, 10 Nov 2009
[wikileaks.org] The CIA and other intelligence agencies have long been interested in the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecomminications, or SWIFT. The Society, headquartered in Belgium, is the primary system used for international, and some national, bank transfers. Whoever controls SWIFT has access to the full details of millions of yearly bank transfers, including, banks, […]
DEFINIENS eCOGNITION BRINGS NEW DIMENSIONS TO GEO-SPATIAL IMAGE ANALYSIS
New Image Analysis Software facilitates fast and accurate geo- information extraction from any kind of remote sensing imagery [earsc.eu] Munich, Germany / Parsippany, New Jersey – Definiens, the number one Enterprise Image Intelligence® company, today announced the launch of its latest software offering for earth science professionals, Definiens eCognition® version 8. The new software suite […]
Swedes drop refugee status proposal
By Judith Crosbie Campaign groups say Commission proposal has been watered down [europeanvoice.com] Sweden, the current holder of the presidency of the Council of Ministers, has dropped a proposal made by the European Commission that decisions on refugee status made by individual member states should be recognised across the European Union by 2014. In a […]
FRONTEX protects us from immigrants. Who protects us from FRONTEX?
[romania.indymedia.org] One of the disadvantages of current representative democracies is the discrepancy between the agenda of the regular citizen and the agenda of leaders and political elites. As the practices of direct democracy lose ground to the dominant-elitist decision making system, people’s interest in the fairness of state policies decreases, and criticisms of governing actions […]
FRONTEX Conference on Biometric Technology for Border Control
[neoconopticon.wordpress.com] Frontex’ Research and Development Unit and the Swedish Presidency of the EU organized a conference on “Biometric Technology for Border Control” (with industry exhibition) in Warsaw on 1-2 October. Topics discussed included European Commission initiatives, standards and guidelines, automated border control systems, mobile equipment, and issues such as security, data protection, costs and funding […]
What is COFEE?
COFEE consists of three major components: the GUI interface for the investigator, the command‐line application to be executed on the target machine, and the individual tools which are managed by COFEE and the command‐line application. There are two major types of live forensics investigation tools – Live Information Acquisition tools and Remote Online Acquisition tools. […]
RapidEye To Supply Satellite Imagery To The European Space Agency Monitoring Of High-Risk Emergency Areas
Brandenburg / Havel, Germany, November 5, 2009 – RapidEye, the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate a constellation of five identical Earth Observation satellites, announced today that a frame contract has been signed with the European Space Agency (ESA) to provide RapidEye satellite imagery for monitoring and change detection in areas prone to […]
The EU and Turkey reinforce their cooperation on curbing irregular immigration
[se2009.eu] The October 2009 European Council has welcomed the beginning of the reinforced dialogue on migration with Turkey and called for concrete steps to be rapidly taken, in particular as regards readmission and border control. Today, the EU and Turkey have agreed to intensify their cooperation to meet the common challenge of stemming irregular migration. […]
Coast Guard Working Group of the International Conference on Border Issues meets in Baku
[apa.az] The Coast Guard Working Group of the International Conference on Border Issues has gathered for its regular meeting in Baku, said Azerbaijan’s State Border Service. The meeting was attended by experts from border services of eight countries (Azerbaijan, Estonia, Finland, Germany, the United States, Russia, Turkey and Georgia) and the EU agency for border […]
Meeting between the EU and Turkey in Ankara
[se2009.eu] On Thursday 5 November, Swedish Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy Tobias Billström and EU Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security Jacques Barrot will meet, among others, the Turkish ministers of interior and justice in Ankara to discuss cooperation between the EU and Turkey on migration issues. The issues on the meetings‘ agendas include […]
Next month in Bruxelles: Stop another 5 year program of death and detention!
30th of November and 1st of December 2009 in Brussels – Transnational Protests in front of the EU – Justice and Home Affairs – Meeting [noborder.org] Refugee Protection and Migrants Rights instead of a brutal EU-Border-regime! No to the repressive Stockholm program! After Tampere and The Hague, the Stockholm program will constitute the next 5-year-framework […]
1,600 are suggested daily for FBI’s list
Number of names on terrorist watch list at 400,000, agency says [washingtonpost.com] Newly released FBI data offer evidence of the broad scope and complexity of the nation’s terrorist watch list, documenting a daily flood of names nominated for inclusion to the controversial list. During a 12-month period ended in March this year, for example, the […]
G6 to discuss ways to combat terrorism
By Judith Crosbie EU ministers to meet US’s top security official [europeanvoice.com] Interior ministers of the EU’s six biggest states will meet the US’s top security official next week (5 November) and will discuss how to boost public support for counter-terrorism polices. The meeting in London of the so-called G6 will also discuss organised crime […]
Mind Your Tweets: CIA and European Union Building Social Networking Surveillance System
by Tom Burghardt That social networking sites and applications such as Facebook, Twitter and their competitors can facilitate communication and information sharing amongst diverse groups and individuals is by now a cliché. [dissidentvoice.org] It should come as no surprise then, that the secret state and the capitalist grifters whom they serve, have zeroed-in on the […]