Prisons minister David Hanson has confirmed that a national computer system to track offenders in prison or on probation will not be installed in the Probation Service. Instead the system, known as C-Nomis, will be rolled out across the Prison Service, replacing its existing case management system. The government underestimated the volume of traffic that the system needed to cope with, and did not factor in having to pay VAT on the contract to EDS.   more »

These countries that ban ownership of firearms are learning a hard truth: criminals don’t need guns to commit crimes…   more »

The Northern Irish Secretary of State for Transport, Ruth Kelly, and her 3 Ministers for Transport (two of which are Scottish of course) are introducing changes to the rules in England so that variable rates of parking fines can be implemented and to remove the requirement for traffic wardens to physically attach a ticket to a vehicle meaning that tickets can be written out and issued after the offence has occurred or from CCTV images.   more »