2009 October | HMP Britain

Fact Checking Charles Clarke

Tags: Charles Clarke, Factcheck, ripa
October 22, 2009

Post fact checking Charles Clarke MP’s article in the Guardian’s Comment is Free website. Corrects errors made about the Data Protection Act, Section 7 of the DPA and child protection databases.

Interception Modernisation Programme, RIPA and EU Directives

Tags: EU Data Retention, Intercept Modernisation Programme, ripa
October 21, 2009

Clearing up the confusion between the Home Office’s ‘Intercept Modernisation Programme’, Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act and EU directives 2006/24/EC and 2002/58/EC.

Cleveland Police on Restoring Public Confidence

Tags: cleveland, managementese, policing pledge
October 12, 2009

Managmentese from Cleveland Police on how they “put people first” and serve their community. Contrasted with the release of a paedophile.

Crowdsourcing CCTV Surveillance

Tags: CCTV
October 6, 2009

Details of new CCTV system being developed where users will be paid if they can spot a crime in progress in the UK.

Bent Cop Ewan McHardy Convicted

October 3, 2009

We profiled Ewan McHardy in August this year. He was found guilty of tampering with a urine sample in the hope of avoiding a drink driving conviction. The judge in the case refused to send him to prison and instead he ended with a £6,000 fine. There are some huge problems with this case: At [...]

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