Policing - new material (38)
01 December 1998
Policing organised crime - a new direction Frederik E Jansen and Gerben J N Bruinsma. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research vol 5 no 4 pp85-98. Argues for a new approach to organised crime the pre-conditions of which are an open democratic society where the public feels responsible for the emergence of organised crime and where the police force and their partners are "(relatively) free of corruption."
CILIP no 58 no 3 1997. Includes a series of articles on police and legal aspects of "crimes against the environment": "The limits of legal sanctions against environmental crime" (Wolf- Dieter Narr); "Environmental crime" and "The police fight against environmental crime" (Otto Diederichs); "The "Environmental Crimes Unit" in the State Police Detective Bureau of Berlin" and Political parties and environmental crime (Martina Kant); "The Greens perception of environmental crime" (Wolfgang Wieland). In German from: CILIP Malteserstr. 74-100 12249 Berlin Germany.
Cross-border vehicle crime Jacek Wegrzyn. The Police Journal, October 1997 pp302-310. Looks at the increasing number of agencies collecting policing intelligence within the EU.
The Balkan heroin route Tam s Orsz g-Land. International Police Review November-December 1997 pp36-37. "Hungary lies at the heart of both Europe and its heroin trade". The same author writes in the July/August 1997 issue on: "New training programme to combat migrants" also concerning Hungary and the pressure it is under to enforce the EU's "immigration regulations.. as a price for securing a place for themselves within Fortress Europe".
Intrusive methods Roy Penrose. Policing Today December 1997, pp32-33. Argues the case for the police use of "bug and burgle" powers.
Kelling's law Sean Howe. Policing Today December 1997 pp17-19
Howe talks to US criminologist George Kelling about his concept of "Broken Windows" and the "misconceptions surrounding the policing philosophy of zero tolerance". Kelling is quoted defending himself against critics: "They.. felt we had lost our tolerance for non-violent deviants. They were wrong - I never had any tolerance for non-violent deviants".
EU backs ear print database. Policing Today December 1997 p9, The EC has provided funds to develop training and a "database dedicated to ear prints" to UK and Dutch police.
Turkey: Trapped in a web of covert killers Ertugrul Kurkcu. CovertAction Quarterly Summer 1997 pp6-12. In-depth feature on the collusion between Turkey's security forces and semi-criminal assassins - and "their unity of purpose in targeting both leftists and Turkish Kurds".
Policing activists: Think global spy local Mitzi Waltz, CovertAction Quarterly Summer 1997 pp21-23. Federal agencies pushing proactive inter-agency cooperation giving "how-to lessons on circumventing civil liberties safeguards".