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Online crime maps go live

Scareyourself.com

6 Jan 15:03

Remaining UK plods to get mobile-data gadgets

Every copper hooked up to Home Office's blue cloud

6 Jan 12:13

Home Office denies remote snooping plan

No change to police rules...yet

5 Jan 13:38

Ohio prof develops CCTV people-tracker 'ware

Paging Mr Orwell

19 Dec 10:22

BT offers £15,000 to catch London exchange burglary gang

Bought any heavy duty network kit in the pub lately?

Channel Register 12 Dec 16:12

Top UK cybercop dreams of PC breathalysers

Plod friendly kit tops PCeU technology wish list

12 Dec 12:32

SOCA budgets £500m to revamp IT systems

Plenty of scope for lots of police notepads

10 Dec 14:00

Jacqui promotes police handhelds

Wants more IT collaboration

5 Dec 14:54

Customs warns of killer consoles

Dodgy Nintendo DSs

5 Dec 09:11

Plod punishes PC-reliant businesses

Innocent or not, you deserve to suffer

4 Dec 13:46

Plod pioneers painless data collection

But poor back-up could blow breathalyser testing

2 Dec 16:34

Danish IT chief 'on the run', suspected of fraud

Mystery over brutal attack on business partner

2 Dec 15:30

Teen-bothering sonic device now does grownups too

Liberty: We need an urgent government crackdown

2 Dec 10:58

EU cybercrime strategy backs law enforcement Trojan

Remote searches? Nein danke

1 Dec 16:50

New terror guidelines on photography

No change - but police continue to bend the law

1 Dec 15:26

Essex copper deluged after forwarding web hoax email

Red faces for boys in blue

28 Nov 11:07

Mumbai terrorist attacks kill at least 100

Britons, Americans targeted

27 Nov 06:04

More Tasers for cops: not in London

Capital sticks with traditional methods

25 Nov 15:34

China's richest man disappears

Gome shares suspended

25 Nov 15:28

Home Office to hand out more Tasers to police

1 in 5 English/Welsh cops to be trained

24 Nov 10:05

Distrust means cop databases suffer arrested development

EU and Lords highlight hurdles

13 Nov 11:43

MoJ cancels tender for prison mobe detectors

Fails to find suitable provider

13 Nov 10:11

Police vet live music, DJs for 'terror risk'

Locking down garage...and RnB, basement

11 Nov 15:43

DNA convictions fall as database doubles in size

Magic database finds 0.36% of crimes

11 Nov 12:30

Preventive policing? Don't even think about it

Police 'randomly searching every fifth person'

7 Nov 15:17

Study clears cannabis of schizophrenia rap

No greater risk than general non-tokers

6 Nov 13:19

The DNA database and you

Special Report How big is it? How many get off it? Your questions answered...

6 Nov 11:02

Police collar kid for Wi-Fi pinching

Exclusive Teen arrested for camping on next door's net

30 Oct 12:32

Touchscreen robo-pharmacist calls for more CCTV snooping

Panopticon vs smash'n'grab smellies blagburst

30 Oct 10:14

No2ID shakes fist at plod print scanner plan

Dodgy tech not the solution

27 Oct 16:35

Prof: 'Taser-proof vests put cops in danger'

Tinfoil waistcoat could have someone's eye out

21 Oct 11:55

Interpol proposes world face-recognition database

Old skool mugshot files too slow, say globocops

20 Oct 14:43

Jacqui Smith trails überdatabase plans

Let's have a consensus

15 Oct 12:40

Home Secretary rejects McKinnon anti-extradition plea

Game over for Pentagon hacker?

13 Oct 17:11

Taser rival offers cops 'Trade in your Taser' zapgun deal

Also punts remote-control electroshock handcuffs

10 Oct 11:31

Yahoo! engineer arrested in Indian terror swoop

Authorities arrest 15, including three 'terror techies'

7 Oct 14:52

Get snapping for Freedom

Taking on the Surveillance Society is no picnic

7 Oct 13:44

Credit agencies get death lists

Fighting ID fraud with weekly updates

6 Oct 11:17

US sky marshals submit to Heart of Gold randomware

Nobody could have predicted this

2 Oct 11:03

Home Office finally approves UK cybercoppers

E-crime unit gets green light but overlap worries remain

1 Oct 10:35

German cyberplods raid Pirate Party on Skype Trojan mole hunt

BayernTrojaner controversy heats up

18 Sep 14:43

NPIA extends Holmes 2 agreement

Plod gets crimes enquiry system until 2011

16 Sep 09:28

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