Category Archive for : ‘CRIME FIGHTING INITIATIVES’

October 10, 2019
Ashley Lime
BBC

“When my father goes out to the bar to drink alcohol, he comes back very angry and threatens to kill me, my mother and my sister,” a 14-year-old girl anonymously wrote in a note she put in what is called a “talking box” at her school in Nairobi’s Kibera slum.
“For a long time I had no-one to talk to and bottled up my issues. But when the talking box was introduced in our school, I was able to speak out by writing on a piece of paper

August 29, 2019
Michael R. Sisak
U.S. News

NEW YORK (AP) — Two of the most concrete changes in the New York Police Department’s evolving approach to sex crimes sit some 20 feet apart, flanking the lobby of a century-old Bronx police station that was known in the neighborhood’s more turbulent years as “Fort Apache.”

The first is a new waiting room, furnished with couches, children’s toys and a radio playing soothing music. It’s designed to give victims of sexual violence a momentary oasis away from the building’s usual hustle and bustle before they meet with

August 9, 2019tra
Europol

Europol supported a pan-European operation against trafficking of minors for sexual exploitation, forced begging and labour exploitation. The operation, led by the United Kingdom, involved law enforcement authorities from 15 EU member states, Iceland and Switzerland*.

Between 17 and 23 June 2019, over 127 000 individuals, 63 800 vehicles and 1 100 locations were checked. Law enforcement authorities searched private properties, commercial establishments, hotels, buses and train stations, ferry ports, airports and border crossings. Prevention campaigns in schools to inform minors of the risks of human trafficking were also part

Robert Howard is accused of killing 12-year-old Naomi Jones in Pensacola. Howard, a convictedrapist, was a registered sex offender in Escambia County, Alabama, but investigators say he wasstaying at the apartment complex in Florida where Naomi lived. In this Reality Check, Local 15’sAndrea Ramey uncovers a loophole that allows sex offenders to travel freely and finds out howinvestigators keep track of them all.

It’s a hot muggy Thursday morning in June, and these volunteers are checking out this shack inIrvington to make sure the 53 year old sex offender who molested

Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday that the city’s first mobile sexual assault response team will begin operating in The Bronx next month. The mayor said highly trained investigators and medical personnel would respond to every rape victim at the three Bronx municipal hospitals – North Central Bronx, Jacobi and Lincoln – within an hour. He explained that there is a very short window of opportunity in rape cases to gather evidence and humanely treat shaken victims for medical and emotional trauma. The special squad will be composed of 12 to 14