Police have been all over the place trying to up-date Information Sharing Agreements following GDPR and DPA'18 in May last year; one Disc administrator just called to say she had been offered an up-dated version - quoting DPA'98 throughout!

Interesting & thought-provoking essay & discussion by @BBCMarkEaston on trust in institutions, including the police bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01…

A #longread from The New York Times on Restorative Justice. fb.me/Ep2zSDeo HT Southern Center for Human Rights #restorativejustice #criminology

How will Boris's budget affect policing in London? publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp… via publicservice.co.uk

Why are vandalism rates falling? My suggestion: massive growth in outside CCTV since mid-'90s bbc.in/VYVCk5

Housing benefit reforms will increase evictions. - and are bound to put more people in harm's way. bbc.in/10SQxhj

Lies, damn lies and crime statistics: now they say crime reduction is exaggerated. Take your pick? bbc.in/Tq37l5

One for Portas? Sharing 'shop detectives' - a small but good idea to help High Street retailers survive. businesscrime.org.uk/htm/n20130124.…

Don't 100% agree about crime/recession link - but Richard Garside is right about shift in crime types and reasons why. ukjusticepolicyreview.org.uk/what-we-ve-bee…

G4S deal with police is off. Q: If this is typical of PCC thinking then who will pay the mega bills to come? bbc.in/VlaLZh

Best way to reform the police from the inside: non-Brits can now take top jobs but too late to get Bill Bratton for Met bbc.in/YgvfEN

The Big Issue and other 'street papers' sold by homeless around the world are suffering. Why? econ.st/X8OgXd

Sorry to blow own trumpet: DISC is the amazing all-new online crime partnership system with 90-day money back offer littoralis.com

#Exclusive Thousands of suspected crims, informants spilled all over web in IT gaffe: Privacy watchdog awoken by ser… reg.cx/26UF

Thousands of fingered crims, informants spaffed in web security COCK-UP theregister.co.uk/2013/06/19/fac… via RegVulture

FACEWATCH database 'wide open'; users' personal data easily available to offenders; Data Watchdog investigating. tinyurl.com/k8y62n4

My Twitter account has been hacked. Now reported and apparently fixed. But you could be next - if in doubt change your password

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