Piece by Kimberley Dozier, released through Associated Press and turned up in the Guardian’s RSS feed. The good news is that half the core members of al Qaeda has been killed. The bad news is that other groups in the franchise have more than replaced them. Twas ever thus. There still seems to be a … FUSION OF MILITANTS BRING NEW THREATS

Nothing specific here, except giving the police a legal right to have such a network. The proof of the pudding will be in the eating!

Report from Centre for Social Cohesion profiles 124 individuals convicted of terrorism offences since 1999 and with Islamic links.

DEA say it was built for trans-oceanic trafficking.Dave Sheridan wrote an underground comic back in circa 1969 in which he predicted such a development, but he was thinking about Mexican cartels and marijuana smuggling. His character was called “Dealer McDope”. You can still buy his board game. Maybe budding criminologists should study it for further … SUBMARINE SEIZED IN ANTI-DRUGS SWOOP

Yet again, the Home Office and new Ministry of Justice fail to get the point. You cant award the police blanket powers to act as they feel like. There have to be criteria for using them so it can be decided by the courts whether their use was reasonable and proportionate. There have to be … EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS REJECTS APPEAL BY UK ON STOP AND SEARCH POWERS

Guardia di Finanza began the investigation into money laundering and then revealed a large netwrok involving Italians as well as Chinese. Money coming from a counterfeit fashion industry using cheap Chinese cloth to produce Italian fashion items for export to eastern Europe. Smurfing one of the techniques used. brothels and sweat shops discovered, using illegal … CHINESE CRIME NETWORKS TARGETED BY RAIDS IN ITALY

Not sure quite why headline writers picked on Scotland here. apparently cocaine use is up all over the UK as Colombian traffickers seek new markets. Heroin use up too. Figures from the new UN World Drug Report.

There are links from this UNODC page to the full report, which is a .pdf and seems to be very slow to download. The supply of heroin and cocaine is in decline. Amphetamines are up.

“Dudus” picked up by Jamaican police, allegedly on his way to give himself up at the US Embassy.

Joint report by Chief Inspector of Prisons, Chief Inspector of Probation Service and Chief Inspector of Constabulary on missed opportunities to rescues teenagers from lives of crime.