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Miami Cops Lectured In Ethical
Months after their chief was accused of violating ethics laws for accepting a free SUV, Miami cops are being grilled on their own ethics knowledge. Miami Police Officers are undergoing mandatory training and testing on ethics.
Miami officers spent their Christmas season studying ethics and taking a quiz on what is and isn't ethical behavior: part of the process in keeping their accreditation as a law enforcement agency. For example, they're being schooled on whether it's ethical to make a false report, ignore department policy or accept a gift.
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Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingd
18 July 2007
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Police will get access to road
Motorists across the country will be tracked by "Big Brother" cameras intended for road pricing under police powers being drawn up in Whitehall.
The policy emerged yesterday when the Home Office announced that police in London would have "real time" access to the capital's congestion charge data.
Ministers said the move was a response to the terrorism threat.
But the Home Office inadvertently released internal discussion papers that showed it intends to expand the scheme nationwide. Officials are drafting legislation giving police access to all data used to enforce charging.
Critics of the drift to a surveillance society said the leak showed road pricing was a "Trojan horse" for more police snooping.
Under current data protection laws, police can get this data only on a case-by-case basis as part of a targeted operation.
Normally, the information is wiped clean after a few weeks if it is not required for charging purposes.
Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, signed a waiver certificate yesterday allowing the "bulk transfer" to the police of all the data from London's 1,500 cameras.
These form a ring around central London to enforce the £8-a-day congestion charge.
They use Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology to link cars with owners' details.
Although charges are only in force at peak times, the system runs 24 hours a day. The background papers - sent in error to the Liberal Democrats - reveal that the Home Office wanted to amend the 1998 Data Protection Act so all police forces have similar powers.
The legislation was delayed after objections by Douglas Alexander, then transport secretary, who feared the "adverse publicity" would undermine his plans to charge motorists.
A draft local transport Bill before MPs gives councils new powers to introduce road pricing schemes.
The proposal is controversial and 1.8 million people signed a Downing Street petition calling for it to be scrapped. Ministers were told when it was disclosed that the data was going to the police, there was potential for more controversy.
Officials argued that excessive intrusion could be justified on counter-terrorism grounds.
The policy papers state: "Civil rights groups and privacy campaigners may condemn this as further evidence of an encroaching Big Brother approach to policing."
They add: "Conversely, there may be surprise that the data collected by the congestion charge cameras is not already used for national security purposes."
Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, said the leak had exposed "a disingenuous attitude of ministers towards public fears about a creeping surveillance state".
Shami Chakrabarti, the director of Liberty, said: "It is one thing to ask the public for special measures to fight the threat of terrorism. But when that becomes a Trojan horse for mass snooping for more petty matters it only leads to a loss of trust in government."
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