Australia detains terror suspects

linked to Somali based al-Shabab group. Allegedly planning suicide bomb attack on Australian military. Seven-month investigation.

Suspicion of UDA link to attacks leads to call for block on funding

Uda accused of links to resurgence in sectarian attacks on Catholics. "Loyalist" ie protestant extremist groups in North Antrim and Londonderry have withdrawn support for the police and may be about to break away from the main organisation which has begun to decommission arms...or has it?

Criminal trials from 18th and 19th century go online

You might like to look at the first comment. Some friend of democracy wants to reintroduce the death penalty for being drunk under the age of 18...and then would like to do the same for being a member of the Labour party. The moderator of the Times has permitted it to remain.
Otherwise, good news for researchers n historical criminology and ancestry, I think.

CRB errors lead to hundreds being wrongly branded criminals

If youre innocent, youve got nothing to fear...yeah, right. Criminal Records Bureau wrongly gave 1,570 people a criminal record, or gave people who had a record a clean bill of health, or got something else wrong [this is the Telegraph, I'm afraid] last year, up from 600+ the year before. The Home office gives us good old Stalin-style figures...They were 99.6% accurate, compared with 99.8%...oh go clap yourselves, apparatchiki!

Force faces "dire" cash shortage

Policing and crime remain news in Scotland, whereas they have hit the back burner in England where "terrorism" and immigration make bigger headlines. I am willing to wager that the cash shortfalls faced by Strathclyde will be faced elsewhere in the UK before the year is out.

The propaganda war between the Taliban and the Pentagon

The original title of this BBC World Service piece is more than a little loaded. It's all reminiscent of the Chinese and Vietnamese Liberation Wars. Once you have the nationalism card in your hand, foreigners can't win. End of story.

Israeli Police Recommend corruption Charges against Avigdor Lieberman

I've chosen the Guardian article because it includes a list of previous cases against Israeli Ministers. Now if only we had an attorney general that prosecuted politicians rather than declaring it not in the national interest! We shall see what happens in this case, however. Russian-originating organised crime that links to israel and new York must be worth a book by somebody. Go look at Misha Glenny's recent publication.

Should Police take a new approach to drug crime by relocating dealers?

Debate-style article from The Independent following on from the news that most agencies involved in anti-drug work in the UK see it as unlikely that they will eradicate drug markets in the near future. Article throws in a programme on the Wire about the effect of moving drug markets in Baltimore.

female officers in Rio's anti-drug squad

Video clip

Charles Manson Follower ends her silence

Linda Kasabian interviewed about the deaths of Sharon Tate and others. She was the member of the family who turned State's evidence, o whatever the US term is. Apparently there will be a programme on Five shortly. Odd business Manson's Family. was it terrorism, petty criminality or what. Compare Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army, almost at the same time.
There are resonances with contemporary charismatic figures in jail for Jihadist acts and their influence on Muslim and other petty criminals.