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Northern Ireland police brings IT under one roof

News John Tully, head of information and communications services at the PSNI said modern day policing is heavily dependent on IT so reliability is "paramount" and the service needs to be able to match the police force's ability to respond urgently.

Tags: police, support, savings, fujitsu services

[06 Feb 2008]

Legal Eye: Scrabble-Facebook row spells trouble

Comment Indeed the worldwide ubiquity of fans of the application may force Hasbro and Mattel to take a piecemeal approach to the rigorous policing of its rights if that's the route they want to go down. It's a case with wide implications, says DLA Piper's...

Tags: facebook, social networks, law, digital rights

[29 Jan 2008]

Online age verification Bill is cynical manipulation

Leader The cases Moran is using as evidence for the need to step up the policing of age verification over the web by retailers appear to be isolated cases, rather than any real wave of under-age porn buying.

Tags: retail, porn, alcohol, care

[22 Jan 2008]

FBI proposes global biometric criminal database

News The UK's National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) said it was aware of the proposal and that any such system could be linked into existing law enforcement databases such as Ident1, the UK repository of more than seven million pieces of...

Tags: crime, biometric, database, police

[15 Jan 2008]

Leverage Access Controls and Policies to Secure Employees' Internet Usage

whitepaper Adopting a formal Internet Acceptable Use Policy (IAUP) is a critical first step in policing your employees' Internet usage, but writing a sound policy is only half the battle against the security breaches and lost productivity that can result...

Tags: ip technologies, policy, practices, productivity

[13 Jan 2008]

Are UK data laws fit for purpose?

Are UK data laws fit for purpose?

News Mark Foulsham, head of IT for eSure, said: "Given that the breach was a failure to adhere to policy and process, the issue is one of policing and enforcement rather than more regulations. In what is now emerging as the UK's biggest ever data...

Tags: hmrc, data protection, cio jury, encryption

[23 Nov 2007]

South African Job Skills Agency Registers Gains of 82 Percent More Employers With Online Solution

whitepaper South Africa's Policing, Security, Legal, Justice, and Correctional Services SETA (SASSETA) was founded in 2000 to facilitate and promote workplace skills development across South Africa. It initially lacked an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP...

Tags: application servers

[16 Nov 2007]

Police to be armed with 10,000 handhelds

News Prime Minister Gordon Brown has pledged to arm police with thousands of "handheld computers" so officers can make more effective use of their time and increase the amount of frontline policing they do.

Tags: gordon brown, handheld, police

[26 Sep 2007]

Leader: Should you ban Facebook?

Leader Either way, organisations and those in charge of policing network access need to sort out their stance on social networking and communicate that to staff. The rise and rise of social networking phenomenon Facebook has put the spotlight on how...

Tags: cio, social networking, facebook

[31 Aug 2007]

Dear silicon.com... this little piggybacker, don't talk trash, analyse this...

Comment Policing piggybacking What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site.

Tags: managers, piggybacking, chip and bin

[30 Aug 2007]

Throughput Guarantees for Multi-Priority Traffic in Ad Hoc Networks

whitepaper This paper presents MPARC (Multi-Priority Admission and Rate Control), a novel joint admission control and rate policing protocol for multi-priority ad hoc networks. MPARC achieves this goal by performing accurate admission control on every newly...

Tags: bandwidth issues, rate, priority, flows

[23 Aug 2007]

'Ello 'ello 'ello... North Wales police calls up IP

News Policing in the remote areas of North Wales is getting a boost with the rollout of a new voice and data network. North Wales Police is implementing a unified communications system from Cisco which will link 75 police stations and provide them with...

Tags: video conferencing, police, cisco, ip

[10 Aug 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Robots with guns

Comment We might well also see them shouldering some responsibility for civil policing in cities and problem areas. Written at a quiet café on the outskirts of Cambridge, UK and dispatched to silicon.com via a corporate WLAN

Tags: science fiction, military tech, robots

[07 Aug 2007]

CIO Essentials: Vista, BBC iPlayer, BlackBerrys and spam

News Network operators should be responsible for implementing and policing effective acceptable use policies on their own networks. Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture.

Tags: blackberry, iplayer, spam, vista

[24 Jul 2007]

Deploying Control Plane Policing

whitepaper This paper will describe a new Cisco IOS Security Infrastructure feature: Control Plane Policing (CoPP), as well as deployment recommendations and guidelines. CoPP is used to increase security on Cisco routers by protecting the route processor from...

Tags: switching, cisco, traffic, processor

[04 Jul 2007]

Novell Case Study: Kent Police Authority

whitepaper The Kent Police Authority is one of 43 police authorities in England and Wales established by Parliament for the governance of policing at a local level. One of the biggest challenges for the Kent Police Authority is the sheer number of...

Tags: application servers, authority, police, linux

[04 Apr 2007]

Police National Computer gets a facelift

News Pito handed responsibility for the computer to the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) on Sunday (1 April). The Police National Computer (PNC) has received a major upgrade, meaning officers will increasingly be able to use it for frontline...

Tags: police

[03 Apr 2007]

Leader: A £1m message that goes out nationwide

Leader Time and time again, it seems, the policing fails to pack much of a punch. When it comes to regulatory fines, especially those issued to companies for information abuse, one often feels disappointed. Not today.

Tags: nationwide

[14 Feb 2007]

Video: Police helmet-cam in action

Video Around 250 officers in Plymouth are wearing the cameras as part of a six month trial - scheduled to finish in March 2007 - to assess the technology and what other uses the camera could have in the wider policing world.

Tags: police, camera

[13 Feb 2007]

Helmet-cams target violent crime

News Around 250 police officers in Plymouth are wearing the cameras as part of the tech evaluation and to assess how such cameras can be used in wider areas of policing. Police have released video footage from helmet cameras that have increased arrests...

Tags: police, camera

[02 Feb 2007]

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