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Record 47 Japan Suspects Arrested Through Wiretapping In 2010
March 01, 2011 - A record 47 people were arrested in 2010 in investigations using authorized wiretaps into cases such as suspected illegal drug sales, a Japan Justice Ministry survey showed. The number of arrest warrants issued by courts was 34, also the largest since the Act on Wiretapping for Criminal Investigation took effect in 2000, it said. Investigative authorities wiretapped a total of 7,475 communications, all of which were cell phone conversations and text messages, in eight suspected drug smuggling cases, one suspected gang-related murder, and one case of gun possession. The authorities found 1,326 of the communications were linked to the alleged crimes, according to the survey. Drug agents under the Ministry of Health, Labor a...
Chinese Make Up Lion's Share Of Foreign Wives In Korea
March 01, 2011 - Chinese women took up the largest portion of foreign wives married to Korean men in 2009, government data said. According to Statistics Korea, a to...
The Database State Is Alive And Well In UK
March 01, 2011 - The amount of data collected by automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras has reached into the billions. A Freedom of Information reque...
Internet Runs Out Of IP Addresses (For Now)
March 01, 2011 - The pool of Internet addresses has officially been drained. Four non-profit Internet administrative groups -- the Internet Corporation for Assi...
No Hepatitis Tests For Chinese Background Checks
March 01, 2011 - The Chinese government has reiterated a strict ban on hepatitis B tests. The Ministry of Health said that no health institutions are allowed to...
Crime Gangs Import New Members On Work Visas
March 01, 2011 - Organised crime networks have set up phoney companies and employment agencies to abuse the "points-based" visa system, introduced under L...
UK Employers Face Fines Over Inappropriate Background Checks
March 01, 2011 - Employers that repeatedly make inappropriate or even unlawful background checks on staff will in future face fines of up to £500,000 as part...
Court Records Destroyed In Fire
March 01, 2011 - Hundreds of important files were reduced to ashes in a major fire that broke out at Punjab and Haryana High Court. The blaze erupted in the jud...
New Bill To Require That Firms Check On Foreign Recruits
March 01, 2011 - Companies will have to do their own background checks on people they want to bring into the country if the Department of Home Affairs has its...
Straightline International Makes Record Search Turnaround Time Calculations As Easy As Clicking A Bu
March 01, 2011 - My brother, Dennis, is some kind of engineering genius. While, as a kid, he was building intricate plastic models, one particularly of...
Aviva (UK) Warns Against Risk of Criminal Records
March 01, 2011 - Home insurance policy holders should at all times inform their insurance company if any member of the household is found guilty of a criminal offen...
Straightline / Chimera Add Growth Within The Pacific Basin
March 01, 2011 - Steven Brownstein, LLC , dba as Straightline International and The Background Investigator has acquired a majority interest in Chimera, LLC, an int...
Steven Brownstein Speaks To NAPBS Members About International Background Checks
March 01, 2011 - It began as a side business for Steven Brownstein, who was in the 1990's the USA's largest provider of criminal background searches. With o...
More Than Half Of CPIC Searches Need To Provide Fingerprints
February 01, 2011 - A calculation by an SFU (Statistics and Actuarial Science Canada) statistician suggests at least one-third of male volunteers – and perhaps c...
Label' Em Criminals
February 01, 2011 - Finnish Immigration Affairs Minister Astrid Thors says that statistics on crimes committed by foreigners in the country should include more detaile...
Japan Crime Rate To Hit 23 Year Low
February 01, 2011 - The number of crime cases detected by police in Japan in 2010 looks set to total below 1.6 million for the first time in 23 years, according to a p...
One India State Has Bright Idea About Criminal Database
February 01, 2011 - Uttar Pradesh Police will soon compile a comprehensive database on criminals to keep a check on crimes in the state, a senior government official h...
Canadian Courts Grapple With CPIC Data
February 01, 2011 - An Ontario judge’s ruling has disclosed what one Crown prosecutor calls a “major problem” with criminal record files held by the...
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