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RSS offenderCourts to save millions with streamlined tech
News It provides a rapid snapshot of the criminal justice system allowing problems with offender management to be spotted and put right within weeks. Courts and police forces could save tens of millions of pounds thanks to technology to streamline the... [17 Jul 2008]
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Comment Perhaps the individual's sex offender status could be recorded on the card? Social networking safety plan Social networks to stamp out sex offenders This may have good intentions but will be easy to bypass. [10 Apr 2008]
People are mugs over identity theft
Comment If you have ever attempted to report an internet-related crime at your local police station, you can imagine how the civilian assistant - it's unlikely you'll see a police officer - will react to your claiming from behind a reinforced window that... [08 Apr 2008]
Corrections Department Upgrades System to Meet Changing Business Needs
White Paper The New Zealand Department of Corrections depends on its Integrated Offender Management System (IOMS) to manage offenders in prison, on parole, or serving community-based sentences. With IOMS technology reaching end-of-life, the system became... [28 Feb 2008]
Government admits to 200 more laptop thefts
News The government has admitted almost 200 laptops have been stolen from various departments, including the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), since 2001. The figures for phone, laptop and PDA loss and theft across government departments reveal the MoJ has had... [19 Feb 2008]
Defra IT - blowing budgets and showing up late
News It follows several recent government IT blunders such as the scaling back of the National Offender Management Service, which is £500m over budget, and the revelation that a new fire control IT system was expected to be £70m over. [07 Feb 2008]
Gov't IT spending to face scrutiny
News The spokesman said the review has not been triggered by the government's lamentable track record on delivering IT systems on budget and on time - such as the £70m overspend for the national fire control centre system or the National Offender... [01 Feb 2008]
Spiralling costs derail £500m offender-tracking system
News Ambitious plans by the National Offender Management Service to fully unite prison and probation records have been scrapped in favour of a pared-down option after costs soared from an original estimate of £234m to £512m. [09 Jan 2008]
Minority Report: 12 months that changed Apple
Comment The second Jobs treatise was on green computing and was written in response to the ongoing Greenpeace campaign, some say opportunist, which alleged that Apple was the worst offender in a list of environmentally unfriendly computer manufacturers. [21 Dec 2007]
Minority Report: A greener Apple
Comment The lobby group has published damning reports that ranked Apple as the worst green offender when compared to 13 other PC makers. That didn't deter Greenpeace which stuck to its guns, updating its league table and keeping Apple as the worst offender. [23 Aug 2007]
Education council pledges £60m to IT
News The investment will focus on a number of areas, including procurement in line with the organisation's Learning for Living and Work initiative for individuals with learning disabilities, upgrades to IT equipment in the offender learning sector and... [03 Aug 2007]
Are laptop bags to blame for rising thefts?
News Offender then pulls [the victim's] laptop case off his shoulder making good his escape. Carrying a laptop in a laptop bag could increase your chances of joining the growing number of people falling prey to laptop thieves. [18 May 2007]
Talking CCTV rolling out to 20 'trouble hotspots'
News Graeme Gerrard, chair of the Association of Chief Police Officers CCTV working group and deputy chief constable of Cheshire Police, said in a statement: "Talking CCTV increases the effectiveness of town centre cameras because it allows the camera... [04 Apr 2007]
Fair Wi-fi: Hotels must mend their ways
News Grant Shapps MP, vice chairman of the Conservative Party, told silicon.com it is worrying that the UK is the most notable offender with these rip-off charges, adding it could damage UK business. In its Fair Wi-fi campaign, silicon.com is urging... [31 Jan 2007]
Set comms free or pay the price, EU told
News The worst offender is Poland, followed by Greece and Germany. Consumers in several European countries are still paying too much for communications services, services which too often also remain of low quality. [11 Dec 2006]
