Daily Telegraph sustain the Conservative Party campaign for change in the British police. Your blogger is stil trying to understand the agenda. Researchers have known all this for years, but the Home Office has been happy to have a police sevice for the government and business and not for the public, because that’s what politicians … POLICE SPEND LESS THAN 6 HOURS A WEEK ON THE BEAT

The companies who make money out of European security contracts are the very ones who design them. Surprise, surprise! This is a long and excellent piece about the bodies involved in security policy making and the issues involved. Well worth a read. I read a piece on the French attitude under Sarkozy. Must find it … EU HOMELAND SECURITY POLICY LACKS DEMOCRATIC OVERSIGHT SAYS WATCHDOG

Lithuania, Poland and Romania, eh? What a trio? One president done for organised crime, another with a very odd couple in charge and finally, one of the two most corrupt countries in Europe. Whose side were the CIA on exactly?

A loose translation! Continuing the theme of using as many different ssources as possible, here’s an odd one from el Pais. A magistrate has been suspended for allegedly abusing her position to obtain favourable treatment [again, loose translation]

I think we knew all this, and there is some astonishingly selective use of material here by the BBC. Times and Telegraph give the new book a more objective treatment. A bunch of paranoid obsessives [sorry people with Cold War mentality] in the Secret Service were seeing communists in every bed and ignoring paramilitaries, the … MI5 KEPT FILE ON FORMER PRIME MINISTER HAROLD WILSON

Actually its a seizure of precursor chemicals for making methamphetamine.

Consequences of spillover from Chechnya, over authoritarian security services and vendetta mentality.

Courtesy of kelly Yip’s daily postings: Article from the Age, an Australian newspaper. The srticle names UK politicians. A Reserve Bank of Australia company called Securency is named. This will be in Private Eye, perhaps, but there are a lot of injunctions being used in the UK to stop stories coming out.

Independent says black teenagers being targeted. Part of operation Trident aiming at crime in six London priority boroughs.

Makes you wonder, innit? Crime falls, so Tory Press attacks the police. Just like Labour, not in power in Scotland, claim it’s not doing as well as rest of the UK.