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	Guardian \| Lethal replicas fuel gun crime fears
		The menace of gun crime, highlighted by a recent spate of murders across England, is being exacerbated by a growing supply of replica guns converted to fire live ammunition, a Scotland Yard analysis has concluded.
		The confidential document, produced by the specialist crime directorate and seen by the Guardian, finds that the conversion of fake guns has become as much a problem as the illegal importation of handguns.
		Assistant commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, head of the specialist crime directorate at Scotland Yard, said: "I don't want to minimise the impact of gun crime but the fear is disproportionate to the reality if you look at all the risk factors.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4772236-103690,00.html (744 words)

	Alexandre Marques :: Silence Is Not Golden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Detectives from the Specialist Crime Directorate are offering a £20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the person responsible for the death of Alexandre Marques, whose body was discovered in Bedfordshire.
		SCD detectives were satisfied that the body was that of Alexandre Marques and began a murder inquiry.
		Detectives from the Specialist Crime Directorate have today [13/12/05] launched a fresh appeal to help them find Alexandre Marques, a 61-year-old gay man who disappeared from his home on 16.10.05.
	www.silenceisnotgolden.org /appeals/metro-marques.aspx (1200 words)

	Specialist Crime Directorate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Economic and Specialist Crime now comprises several ‘specialised' teams that deliver investigative, proactive and intelligence development approaches to a wide range of serious crime affecting individuals, private and public sector organisations.
		The Specialist Crime Operations Team is a proactive team dealing predominantly with organised crime relating to arts and antiques and wildlife and extremist activity, such as animal rights.
		The Computer Crime Unit is a centre of excellence in regard to Computer and Cyber crime committed under the Computer Misuse Act 1990, notably hacking, maliciously creating and spreading viruses and counterfeit software.
	www.met.police.uk /scd/units/eco_spec_crime.htm (648 words)

	Newswatch - World Class News Stories - All day - Every day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Organised crime in London is a growth industry with at least 170 gangs from 24 nationalities carrying out murders, drug and people trafficking and kidnap.
		Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, head of the specialist crime directorate said: "It is not a million pound industry it is a multi-million pound industry.
		Forty two per cent of gangs are brought together by their geographical closeness, nine per cent are family networks and the remaining two per cent are termed 'virtual' where they may never meet and operate predominantly in paedophilia or money laundering.
	www.newswatch.co.uk /headlines.asp?ref=VT1523479O (844 words)

	Gaining an understanding of, and increasing effective intervention in, organised criminal networks in London ...
		The forces of globalisation (new technologies, human trafficking, mass transportation and new cultural communities) in London and the increasing dominance of London as a major financial and cultural centre are reflected in the growing complexity and presence of organised criminal networks in all aspects of London's communities.
		The Specialist Crime Directorate is leading the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) in developing a comprehensive approach to understanding and tackling organised criminal networks, and reducing the harm these networks cause in our communities and neighbourhoods.
		Her role includes developing and communicating the MPS strategy for tackling serious and organised crime across London, helping to realign the SCD to best deliver this strategy, and influencing legislative and policy issues in the wider government arena.
	www.aic.gov.au /conferences/occasional/2005-10-aquilina.html (314 words)

	Guardian \| Police crack down on immigration scam
		About 120 officers from Scotland Yard's specialist crime directorate targeted 12 addresses in London and Essex, including two suspected bogus colleges in Tooting, in south-west London.
		This morning's operation was the largest yet carried out by the Metropolitan police as part of Operation Maxim, an initiative to tackle organised immigration crime.
		Tarique Ghaffur, head of the Met's specialist crime directorate, said the investigation "highlights the Met police's determination to counter organised immigration crime in London".
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4948684-104770,00.html (635 words)

	P.S.A.E.W. Police Superintendents Police Supers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Met Specialist Crime Directorate's conference will be at the Novotel in Hammersmith on Thursday April 3rd and is the first crime focused event on this scale in London.
		All of the Specialist Crime Directorate's Departments will also illustrate their work on exhibition stands at the conference.
		Specialist Crime Directorate Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur said: ' This is the first time that a conference aimed at crime reduction has been organised on this scale in London.
	www.policesupers.com /police-supers-news.asp?news_id=363 (487 words)

	Police - About the Hillingdon Community & Police Consultative Group
		Mr Ghaffur began by saying that the Specialist Crime Directorate (SCD) was formed in November 2002 from the Metropolitan Police Specialist Operations Department.
		It was decided that following the terrorist actions on September 11th, it would be necessary to divide the Specialist Operations Department at New Scotland Yard, seperating the anti-terrorist and protection units from specialist crime units, thus ensuring each received due attention in dedicated departments.
		Organised Crime Within Distinct Communities - the problem of human trafficking is very serious and the SCD has mounted Operation Maxim to work with Immigration.
	www.hillingdon.gov.uk /central/police_cons/jan04.php (1250 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - Huge cocaine bust in UK - Thursday \| September 25, 2003
		Although many were arrested yesterday, the Metropolitan Police said that since the operation started, there had been 20 arrests as officers slowly closed in on the network, with many of the frontline men selling the drugs being taken off the streets.
		The operation was led by the Met's Special Projects team, part of the Specialist Crime Directorate.
		This highly successful unit was created to deal with serious and organised crime employing highly-trained officers.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20030925/news/news8.html (437 words)

	Melanie Phillips’s Articles
		And too often the absence of a parent is directly linked to the crime, educational underachievement, drug and drink abuse, mental and physical ill health and other disadvantages that now blight so many of our children’s lives and cause so much damage to our society.
		So she went to Italy where she was treated by the controversial IVF doctor Severino Antinori, one of the few specialists in the world prepared to treat women over the age of 55 (and who has also declared his wish to clone a human being).
		The birth of this baby has produced a horrified reaction from various IVF specialists and campaigners in the field of medical ethics, who say IVF for elderly women is a distortion of nature and should be stopped â” not least because complications in pregnancy rise dramatically among older women.
	www.melaniephillips.com /articles (10502 words)

	Money \| Police warn of 'criminal cashback' scam
		The force's Specialist Crime Directorate said that the new type of fraud, which they called "criminal cashback," is aimed at anyone advertising goods for sale, either online, in the local press or in a shop window.
		In effect, the seller is tricked into sending their own cash by an irreversible means, and, sadly, the victim and not their bank is liable for the loss.
		Detective Chief Inspector Stuart Dark, of the Met's economic and specialist crime unit, urged sellers not to accept a cheque or banker's draft for any amount over the asking price.
	money.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5074168-111601,00.html (442 words)

	Specialist Crime Directorate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The MPS is the only police service in the UK to have a Chief Officer nominated to oversee all homicide investigations and develop policy in this area.
		The Homicide Command is responsible for the investigation of homicide and other serious crimes in London.
		Detectives were initially satisfied with the doctor's explanation but when they returned to clear up a few details he had disappeared.
	www.met.police.uk /scd/units/homicide.htm (370 words)

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		Choudhury was previously Director of Technology Policy in the Office of the e-Envoy, Cabinet Office, with responsibility for leading the Markets, Technology, and Innovation vision and policy for the UK’s ambition to become the leading knowledge economy.
		Tariq Modood is the Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship and a founding editor of the new international journal, Ethnicities (Sage).
	www.salaam.co.uk /themeofthemonth/september03_index.php?l=9 (12289 words)

	Teacher held in connection with donations-for-lordships scandal
		Des Smith, a former head teacher at the All Saints Catholic School in Dagenham, east London, was detained by the Specialist Crime Directorate Thursday under the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925.
		Smith, 60, had quit the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, which raises money for the new chain of independent state schools, after he suggested to an undercover reporter that donors could be recommended for honours, including peerages.
		He is believed to have told a Sunday Times reporter that "the Prime Minister's office would recommend someone like (the donor) for an OBE, a CBE or a knighthood".
	www.abcmoney.co.uk /news/1420062315.htm (526 words)

	New joint taskforce to target London's drug gangs
		It is the first joint law enforcement unit of its kind in London, combining the "best practices and specialist skills" of organisations to tackle drug wholesalers.
		Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, the head of the Specialist Crime Directorate, said: "There is overwhelming evidence that the majority of volume crime in London is committed by offenders who use drugs and need to fund their habit.
		The unit is based at Custom House and is led by Detective Superintendent Steve Dann, from the Serious and Organized Crime Command, which is part of the Met's Specialist Crime Directorate.
	www.4ni.co.uk /nationalnews.asp?id=34980 (600 words)

	Scotland Yard and CBC join forces to tackle economic crime
		They were speaking during roundtable discussions on healthcare and energy sectors organised by the CBC at the India-UK business leaders forum that concluded earlier this week in London.
		The organizations held a special session on economic crime in New Delhi in March during the India trade and investment forum.
		Every industry and country is exposed to economic crime risk in addition to those that have significant operations in the technology and business processing outsourcing domains.
	www.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=51699 (555 words)

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		Detectives from Specialist Crime Directorate are investigating the disappearance of London gay man 61-year-old Alexandre Madeira Marques, known as Alex.
		Alexandre, originally from Portugal, was last seen at 11:00 on Sunday 16.10.05 when a neighbor saw him at his home in Notting Hill.
		DI Tim Dobson, of the Specialist Crime Directorate, said: "It is important that we speak to anyone who knows Alex.
	uk.gay.com /printit/headlines/9274 (331 words)

	Ananova - Met probes 'Labour honours sale'
		The Metropolitan Police announced that its Specialist Crime Directorate was looking into three complaints relating to alleged breaches of a 1925 law passed following the scandal over the sale of peerages by David Lloyd George when he was prime minister.
		Scottish National Party MP Angus MacNeil complained to Met Commissioner Sir Ian Blair and the Director of Public Prosecutions last week after it was revealed that several wealthy individuals had been nominated for peerages after giving Labour loans running into millions of pounds.
		A Scotland Yard spokesman said that the three complaints were in relation to the loans for peerages allegations.
	www.ananova.com /news/story/sm_1772050.html (251 words)

	news - Met supports Safer Travel at Night Campaign
		Part of its aim is to dispel the myth that fraud is a "victimless" crime.
		This is being supported by Paul Goggins MP, government minister with responsibility for organised crime, Commissioner James Hart, UK ACPO lead on economic crime and Mike Haley of the Office of Fair Trading.
		Research by staff from the 'ST£RLING Proactive Prevention Team' of the Metropolitan Police's Economic and Specialist Crime command, (SCD6), in early 2005 identified that, whatever the initial method of approach, the organised criminal networks involved in 'high volume fraud' relied heavily on 'money transfer systems' to obtain money from their victims.
	www.noticias.info /asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=108651&src=0 (1038 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Politics - The Scots detective who blew the whistle over honours row
		The former Serious Crime Squad detective has accused police of staging a cover-up after officers waited three months to launch an investigation.
		Mr Watson first wrote to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner on 15 January, but the specialist crime directorate passed the complaint on to the honours scrutiny committee.
		Mr Watson told The Scotsman he felt he was being "fobbed off" and that the police were part of the problem in the corruption row.
	news.scotsman.com /politics.cfm?id=573882006 (567 words)

	Corporate Crime -- Corporate Crime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		And that emerging consensus is this: corporate crime and violence inflicts far more damage on...
		Corporate crime Corporate crime refers to criminal practices by presidents, CEOs.managers, directors and chairmen of corporations and companies.These can regard fraud, damage of the environment...
		Corporate crime [Categories: Core issues in ethics] Corporate crime refers to criminal practices by individuals that have the legal authority to speak for a (A business firm whose articles of...
	www.hrcorporate.com /corporatecrime (1580 words)

	Scotsman.com News - UK - Dawn raids target student visa scam
		More than 120 officers from Scotland Yard’s specialist crime directorate swooped on more than a dozen addresses across London and Essex, including two suspected bogus colleges.
		The raids were designed to bring to an end a huge immigration racket estimated to have brought more than 1000 people to London and earned the perpetrators millions of pounds.
		The racket is suspected of providing mainly South African people with fraudulently obtained student visas, either by using counterfeit immigration stamps and false documents or by registering them at bogus colleges.
	news.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=684102004 (536 words)

	Ananova - Ex-adviser held in honours probe
		He was named as Des Smith, a headteacher in Dagenham, as the individual detained by the Specialist Crime Directorate this morning for an offence under the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925.
		He was arrested in Redbridge by the Specialist Crime Directorate for an offence under the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925.
		The Scotland Yard inquiry was originally launched in response to a complaint by Scottish and Welsh nationalist MPs that Labour had broken the law outlawing the sale of honours such as peerages and knighthoods.
	www.ananova.com /news/story/sm_1802753.html (188 words)

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		With the assistance of FACT, the UK film and broadcast industry’s anti-piracy organisation, the dedicated police unit will collate intelligence on crime trends and criminal activity in the area of film piracy.
		Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, Specialist Crime Directorate, said: “Today’s partnership launch with FACT provides us with a welcome opportunity to concentrate on an area of criminality which is often regarded as victimless.
		Raymond Leinster, FACT Director General, said: “The formation of the Metropolitan Police’s Film Piracy Unit is a unique development and will assist FACT’s capacity to address and confront the threats from the organised networks which are making significant profits from film piracy.”
	www.4rfv.co.uk /nationalnews.asp?id=48680 (519 words)

	Criminal cashback scam \| OUT-LAW.COM
		Beware the buyer who sends you a cheque for more than the price of the item you are selling.
		The warning came yesterday from the Metropolitan Police Specialist Crime Directorate: you could become a victim of the "criminal cashback" scam.
		According to the police the fraud revolves around goods advertised for sale in any type of media – the internet, a newspaper or even in the local supermarket.
	www.out-law.com /page-5116-theme=default (630 words)

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		The Metropolitan Police announced that its Specialist Crime Directorate was looking into three complaints relating to the controversy over Labour's alleged peerages for loans row.
		Scottish National Party MP Angus MacNeil complained to Met Commissioner Sir Ian Blair and the Director of Public Prosecutions after it was revealed that several wealthy individuals had been nominated for peerages after giving Labour loans running into millions of pounds.
		It is not known who the other two complaints were made by.
	www.irn.co.uk /ViewNewsItem.aspx?ItemID=11475 (158 words)

	Ten-year-old rescued after 35 hour ordeal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Officers from the Specialist Crime Directorate's Kidnap Unit put an operation in place immediately to find the boy.
		Four men and one woman have been arrested in connection with the kidnap and firearm offences.
		Commander Cresida Dick, From the Service's Serious Crime Directorate said: 'The investigation team are extremely pleased to have found and released this young boy safely.
	news.monstersandcritics.com /uk/printer_1131053.php (230 words)

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