"A report into the use of statutory powers by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) has given these a pass mark but uncovered serious deficiencies in the AFP’s record-keeping practices and processes....
Disclosure: TSA cannot verify employees’ criminal histories
Government oversight officials informed Congress on Wednesday that the Transportation Security Administration continues to operate in disarray, failing to record basic security details for thousands...
Sheriff’s Office gets training, writing policies, hiring to improve public records retention
raining of roughly 200 supervisors at the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office in the handling of public records as well as other steps to improve a broken and possibly illegal system of not keeping emails...
Did poor recordkeeping allow a murderer to walk free?
Poor recordkeeping by the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) relating to the On the Runs (OTRs) scheme for fugitive IRA members may have allowed a murderer to walk free. The NIO ran a scheme formulated...
Met police still failing on child protection policies, report finds
The police are failing to record more than 800,000 offences, including a quarter of all sexual crimes, reported to them by the public each year, according to a damning official inquiry. Her...
Employees at Scotland Yard ordered to carry out ‘mass shredding’ (UK)
Two employees at Scotland Yard were ordered to shred a “lorry-load” of police corruption intelligence, according to evidence submitted to a damning review of the Metropolitan Police. Top-secret...
Review of the parole system in Victoria (AUS)
Following the murder of Jill Meagher , the Victorian government asked retired High Court judge Ian Callinan to review the parole board. In his findings, Justice Callinan portrayed a board that was...
CMC Inquiry hears how “huge mistakes” were made
Recordkeeping practices at Queensland's Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) remain in the spotlight at the ongoing Parliamentary inquiry into the release of sensitive documents from the Fitzgerald...
Coroner calls for gun reform after Horden shootings… Woeful recordkeeping (UK)
A coroner has called for "root and branch" gun licensing reform after ruling three women shot in a house in County Durham were unlawfully killed... In his inquest judgement, (The coroner Andrew...
Police courier system used as a DNA crime roadblock
LAWYERS are using a landmark police courier system to argue for evidence to be thrown out of criminal trials.... Lawyers are arguing that lax record keeping from the time DNA samples leave police...
SAPS gun records in shambles (South Africa)
KwaZulu-Natal - Hundreds of guns from police station exhibit rooms across KwaZulu-Natal are missing or unaccounted for because of poor record keeping, an audit has found. The preliminary findings of...
Judge upset by RCMP records backlog
KITCHENER — The federal government is talking about law and order, but it needs to get its own house in order, says a Kitchener judge upset at the huge backlog in the RCMP’s criminal records...
NSW Auditor slams agency contract extensions (AUS)
A recent audit by the NSW Audit Office criticised two state agencies for lack of transparency in contracting. NSW Police and NSW Health failed to produce records justifying a range of contract...