Law enforcement and L Guide - Resources and Review

Full text of the commission report published, in September 1999. The Commission, chaired by Chris Patten, examined the future of the police service in Northern Ireland as part of the Good Friday agreement.
 
Descriptions of Northern Ireland prisons, statistics about the prison population and related news and reports.
 
Administrative information including contact details, directions, and visiting hours for prison establishments in England and Wales. Offers a guide to regimes within each institution, drug strategies employed, links to support organisations for prisoners, ex prisoners, and their families, and statistics on various aspects of the prison population.
 
Official Web site of the Mounties. Extensive information includes details of drug enforcement, economic crime, counterfeiting, drug awareness, immigration and passport control, proceeds of crime, customs and excise, computer and telecommunications crime.
 
Extensive index of crime related links covering trends, law, courts, police, research, education and professional issues.
 
Institute supporting the performance and productivity of Australasian law enforcement and allied agencies. Offers information on library and consulting services and academic programmes.
 
Publisher of defence, aerospace, transportation, geopolitical, and law enforcement information. Features a product catalogue searchable by category and keyword, details of conferences, press releases, and news reports.
 
Links to over 20 official police forces and police related organisations in the UK.
 
Subscription
based access to databases holding information on defence, geopolitics, transportation, and law enforcement. Offers weekly email updates on key issues in these fields, online facilities for ordering Jane's products, and a list of acronyms used.
 
Summary of recent crime statistics and police activities in the UK.
 
Originally a public information service providing details of legal proceedings by US state attorney general, making the tobacco industry accountable for aspects of its advertising and marketing. This resource now serves as an archive of the proceedings providing documents by state, access to the current tobacco litigation and control, and the 'Tobacco Retailer Responsibility Initiative'.
 
Full text of the report (published February 1999) of the public inquiry relating to the conduct of the Metropolitan Police investigation into the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence in London in 1993.
 
The representative body to which every police officer below the rank of superintendent belongs.
 
Report charting policy developments for the international control of narcotics. Includes individual reports on major drug producing and drug transit countries, and on those involved in money laundering and financial crimes. Strategy reports from 1996 and 1997 are also available online.
 
Presents news from prisons throughout Scotland, annual reports, strategy documents addressing the management of sex offenders and prisoners' suicide risks, and a directory of institutions with information on their history, development, and targets.
 
Full text document discussing the issue of liability for damage to nature. Details are given of an EC environmental liability regime, legislation currently in force, and policy areas likely to be affected such as the urban environment, industry, and nuclear safety. Available in a choice of languages.
 
Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources relevant to public law enforcement.
 
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