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Nicaraguan drugs haul underlines country's co-operation with the US

Police get ready to burn cocaine in Managua, capital of Nicaragua, 30 January 2009. Nicaraguan anti-drug police burned about two tonnes of cocaine, police media office said (PA)

A joint Nicaragua-US operation in the Caribbean netted a large drug haul on 4 May.

17 May 2011

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Central America Plans Creation of Regional Health Secretariat

On the evidence

UK police forces have amassed huge amounts of case data. Using it as the basis for a system of evidence-based policing is vital to making the best use of their scarce resources.

02 December 2010

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Recession bites

The path less travelled

PC Sacha Azizi talks to Gypsies Levi Smith, centre, and Paul Bristow Jr. (Steve Phillips)

After a decade of building bridges with the Gypsy and Traveller community, Kent Police officers have a relationship that sees them welcomed with a cup of tea rather than a hail of stones.

12 October 2010

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Lonely times ahead for all future patrols

Force's take on A19 'could pave way' for cull of skilled officers

Cash saver: Forces have been urged to think carefully about using the cost-cutting move of compulsorily retiring officers. (Image Source)

Warwickshire Police considers invoking a regulation that would allow it to force experienced officers to retire.

02 September 2010

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Super saver

Police rebellion quelled in Ecuador

A police officer demonstrates against a new law that cuts police officers' benefits in Quito on 30 September. (PA)

General Freddy Martínez, commander of Ecuador's police force, resigned on 1 October following a police rebellion that kept President Rafael Correa hostage for 12 hours.

01 October 2010

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Ecuador purges armed forces and police

Facebook searches could prejudice trials

Criminal trials in the UK have been collapsing because victims and witnesses have tried to identify subjects on social networking sites.

05 August 2010

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Mobile revolution

Met deputy criticises £150,000-a-week waste of officers' time

The deputy commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police Force has launched a verbal attack on 'wasteful' criminal justice practices.

08 July 2010

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Review to assess officers' responses in rape cases

Window dressing - The Netherlands' sex trade

In 2007, an Amsterdam judge ruled that peep shows, where sex workers performing strip shows and explicit acts can be watched from booths, are a form of theatre and owners are entitled to a tax break. (PA)

Despite the Brothel Law legalising prostitution in the Netherlands in 2000, human trafficking gangs remain a serious problem in the country.

05 July 2010

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Fourth column - Italy keeps a rein on smallest mafia group

Do potential policing mergers mean the end is nigh for NPIA?

NPIA services could be amalgamated into a new agency (McBill)

The National Policing Improvement Agency could be broken up and parts of it merged into a national operational policing organisation, the police minister has confirmed.

01 July 2010

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Jane's Police Review 2010 Gala Awards

Gun control

What can the police service learn from the Cumbria killings? Could tighter gun laws have made any difference? Max Blain investigates calls for amendments to firearms legislation and what this could mean for officers across the country

17 June 2010

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Cumbria force has fewest firearms cases

IPCC probing police car crash that killed two pedestrians

A police car crash that left two pedestrians dead is being investigated by the UK's Independent Police Complaints Commission.

08 June 2010

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Arresting accidents

Human touch

Nick Hardwick, who has stepped down from leading the UK's Independent Police Complaints Commission, says officers have nothing to fear from greater scrutiny or from admitting their mistakes.

03 June 2010

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Identity crisis

Definitely May-be

With 13 years' experience as an MP, Theresa May has spoken on issues from smoking to the Iaq war, but been less involved in policing. Sarah Bebbington looks at her record to see what the service can expect from the new home secretary.

20 May 2010

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May throws down gauntlet on police pay

Young guns

While they are subject to minimum standards for eyesight, fitness and hearing, the four decades separate the ages of the youngest and the oldest firearms officers across the UK.

12 May 2010

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Balance of power

Annual leave requests too time consuming

Officers in one of the UK's largest forces have been spending as long as 80 minutes filling out holiday forms, Police Review can reveal.

29 April 2010

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No trust with case files means service ties itself up in red tape