Reasons why the Strathclyde candidate has a chance of becoming Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. The drive to dismantle the gangs of Glasgow.

I missed this article a couple of weeks ago. More on the programme to dismantle the Glasgow gangs

Father and two sons jailed for £27.5 million scam

In two special Aljazeera reports, the tragedy of African women victim of sex trafficking is investigated, and in particular their situation in southern Italy, in the ghettos near Napoli.

The Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) has seized a huge amount of cocaine in La Spiezia (in the Liguria region of Northern Italy). The drug was hidden behind a false wall in a container from Colombia directed to Genoa via Gioia Tauro, a seaport heavily controlled by the ‘Ndrangheta.

One of the main Italian newspaper today offers an article on female homicides in Ciudad Juàrez and the increasing presence of female offenders.

an al Jazeera site linking articles and broadcasts on Mexico and Central America

The ‘Ndrangheta, based in Calabria in the far south of Italy, is now believed to be the most powerful of Italy’s four mafia organisations.

An alleged leader of Italy’s feared ‘Ndrangheta mafia was arrested by police after being found hiding in a hi-tech underground bunker accessible only via a remote-controlled trap door.

The rise of the Zetas as not just a Mexican menace but as a significant power in the international drug trade has been helped along by its growing links to a sprawling Italian mafia group known as the ‘Ndrangheta