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01 January 1996

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EU: Association of European Police Colleges: an initiative to coordinate police training between the 15 EU states developed by the UK's Police Training College at Bramshill and their German and Netherlands counterparts was launched by European Commissioner Mrs Anita Gradin on 25 January. Home Office, press release, 25.1.96. US: FBI asks for new tapping system: The FBI have asked for funds to set up a national wiretapping system capable of monitoring simultaneously 1 out of every 100 phone lines which totals 148 million lines in the US. Currently there are 850 court-authorised wiretaps a year - or fewer that 1 in every 174,000. The FBI has set out its needs following the 1994 Digital Telephony Act. FBI officials maintain that advanced, high-capacity monitoring is needed as more of "modern life" and crime takes place as voice or computer communications over digital phone lines which are harder to put under surveillance than old-fashioned analog lines. International Herald Tribune, 3.11.95.

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