Italy police warn of Skype threat
Criminals in Italy are increasingly making phone calls over the internet in order to avoid getting caught through mobile phone intercepts, police say. [news.bbc.co.uk] Officers in Milan say organised crime, arms and drugs traffickers, and prostitution rings are turning to Skype in order to frustrate investigators. The police say Skype’s encryption system is a secret […]
Nigeria: Italy pledges patrol boats to deter militant attacks
[adnkronos.com] Italy’s foreign minister Franco Frattini on Tuesday pledged to send two boats to help patrol the Niger Delta in Nigeria, where troops are battling militants known for targeting foreign-owned petroleum companies. Armed attacks by rebels from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, including kidnappings and the hijacking of vessels, have cut […]
Angolan-Italian cooperation analysed
Bilateral Cooperation [portalangop.co.ao] Luanda – The bilateral cooperation between Angola and Italy topped the meeting involving the Angolan prime minister, Paulo Kassoma and the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Franco Frattini, held this Tuesday in Luanda. The fact was revealed by the head of Italian diplomacy at the end of the audience granted to him […]
Secret police unit set up to spy on British ‚domestic extremists‘
[mailonsunday.co.uk] A secret police intelligence unit has been set up to spy on Left-wing and Right-wing political groups. The Confidential Intelligence Unit (CIU) has the power to operate across the UK and will mount surveillance and run informers on ‘domestic extremists’. Its job is to build up a detailed picture of radical campaigners. Targets will […]
EU agrees cash for Libya to combat illegal immigration
[euronews.net] Libya has been given a major financial boost from the European Union to help combat illegal immigration. It follows a unilateral agreement between the north African country and Italy to carry out joint maritime patrols in the Mediterranean. At a meeting in Tripoli, the EU’s external relations commissioner announced a package worth 20 million […]
Feds consider searches of terrorism blogs
[usatoday.com] The Homeland Security Department may soon start scouring the Internet to find blogs and message boards that terrorists use to plan attacks in the USA. The effort comes as researchers are seeing terrorists increasingly use the Internet to plan bombings, recruit members and spread propaganda. "Blogging and message boards have played a substantial role […]
Italian doctors asked to report illegal immigrants
Italy’s Interior Minister Roberto Maroni says it rather bluntly: "We have to be mean towards illegal migrants." The minister from the separatist Northern League announced a new and restrictive measure on Monday. His party has submitted legislation which would require doctors to report illegal migrants to the police. They are not permitted to do so under […]
Finland fingerprints all Finns and foreigns
[theregister.co.uk] The Finnish government is pushing ahead with plans to collect all citizens‘ fingerprints for passports and to give police access to fingerprints for crime detection. The bill is expected to go before the Finnish parliament this week and is likely to come into force in spring. Part of the justification is the EU requirement […]
NATO Wants Sim Afghanistan to Test War Plans
NATO commanders in Afghanistan want a virtual version of the country, to test out battle plans and forecast future unrest. Afghanistan’s often-explosive mix of tribal, ethnic, and religious power politics has been catching outsiders off-guard for the last couple-thousand years. This time around, America and her Western allies are trying two controversial, competing approaches, to […]
Romania becomes a European Gendarmerie Force member
[romaniapress.com] Romania, by the Romanian Gendarmerie, became a full member of the European Gendarmerie Force (EUROGENDFOR) on Wednesday, a release to Agerpres announced. The event took place on the occasion of the High Level Interdepartmental Committee (CIMIN) held in Portugal. The unilateral declaration of Romania’s joining the EUROGENDFOR was signed by inspector general of the […]
Anti terrorism in France
"Anti terrorism has nothing to do with "terrorism". This is actually a political policy aimed at wiping social rebels out by force. That is why whe have to support the lately arrested rebelliouses" Eric Hazan What is terrorism ? [cia.bzzz.net] Interesting question. Actually, there is still no internationally agreed definition of terrorism. According to wikipedia […]
Perceptions of anti-social behaviour: Findings from the 2007/08 British Crime Survey
Supplementary Volume 1 to Crime in England and Wales 2007/08 [homeoffice.gov.uk] This bulletin is the first in a series of supplementary volumes that accompany the main annual Home Office Statistical Bulletin, ‘Crime in England and Wales 2007/08’ (Kershaw et al., 2008). These supplementary volumes report on additional analysis not included in the main annual publication. […]
DELINQUENT BEHAVIOUR IN NORDIC CAPITAL CITIES
[optula.om.fi] Marking the approaching 50th anniversary of Nordic self-report delinquency research, this report describes the contemporary patterns of delinquent behaviour in the five Nordic capital cities: Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Reykjavik and Stockholm. The report draws on the second sweep of the International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD).
SECURITY: ITALIAN POLICE CHIEF MEETS ALBANIAN PREMIER
[ansamed.info] The coordination centre for all the offices of the Italian police and European police in the western Balkan states is to be in Tirana; mixed Italian-Albanian investigatory teams to tackle organised crime; the setting up of a team of police for the Balkans: these are the proposals presented in Tirana by the Italian chief […]
EU states monitor spread of civil unrest
[euobserver.com] EU member states are "intensively" monitoring the risk of spreading civil unrest in Europe, as riots over the economic crisis erupt in Iceland following street clashes in Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Greece. The worst street disturbances for 50 years struck Reykjavik on Thursday (22 January), as police streamed a hardcore of a few hundred […]
Ministers for Home Affairs: Modern Technologies and Security. Creation of a “signal group”?
It is relevant to consider the creation of a “signal group” or a “signal network”, which would search for specific “emerging” technological applications and ways of their efficient use in the area of security. At the same time, this group or network would focus on specific applications, which make use of aforementioned technologies that are […]
Italy – proliferation of forbidden behaviour
[statewatch.org] New powers given to local councils in the “security package” approved on 23 May 2008, under article 5 of law decree no. 92 (which came into force on 5 August and was converted into a law on 9 August 2008), allow them to issue orders in the fields of public order and security, to […]
Japan: Satellite to watch for illegal dumping
To reduce illegal dumping of industrial waste, the Environment Ministry has started to use an Earth observation satellite to monitor areas from space, it was learned Thursday. [earsc.eu] The Iwate prefectural government has begun experimentally receiving relevant satellite data and has given administrative guidance to companies that have illegally dumped industrial waste. Iwate’s success has […]
The Geospatial Dimensions of Critical Infrastructure and Emergency Response White Paper Series
[earsc.eu] This paper, Infrastructure Interdependencies, is the first in a special White Paper Series entitled, The Geospatial Dimensions of Critical Infrastructure and Emergency Response. It is intended to provide geospatial practitioners with a summary of critical infrastructure interdependencies, reasons why understanding these relationships is vital to effective emergency response, and the important role geospatial technology, […]
EU borders database defenestrated in Prague?
[theregister.co.uk] An upgrade to the database that allows members of the EU’s open borders agreenent to exchange security information could soon be scrapped, even though €28m has already been spent on the project. The future of the delayed Schengen Information System II (SIS II) is in doubt according to a meeting of home affairs ministers […]