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01 December 1994

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Regionalisation: the Dutch police forces after their reorganisation Hans Bevers. Police Journal LXVII(4):326-333, 1994. On the Police Act which came into force last April and the creation of 25 regional police forces.

Yugoslavia: police violence in Kosovo province - the victims, Amnesty International report on police treatment of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. September 1994 27 pages.

Pepper spray and in-custody deaths. The Police Chief June 1994, p64. Argues that of 22 deaths in custody examined in the USA the pepper spray was not responsible. 18 of the deaths were apparently caused by "positional asphyxia" - resulting from handcuffing subjects behind their backs having them on their stomachs using ankle restraints hog-tying subjects with big bellies transported in the prone position making it "very difficult for individual to breathe".

A look at French Criminal Procedure Helen Trouille. Criminal Law Review (1994) pp735-744.

Not much to rave about Ray Newman. Police Review 25.11.94, pp22-24. Examines effects of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.

Reinventing the CID Ian Will. Police Review 25.11.94 pp14-15. Argues that the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) is an unsatisfactory half-way house to the creation of a proper national investigation department.

Parliamentary debate

Policing of London Commons 2.12.94. cols. 1437-1510

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