Corporate Crime analysis: Display bolder ambition, boost spending, and uncover more wrongdoing. These are the demands made of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and government in a new spotlight on corruption briefing, setting out eight recommendations by which this can be achieved. Is the SFO up to the task? A dynamic new director, new pre-investigatory powers, and a long-desired reform to corporate criminal liability, have given the SFO a new lease of life. Still, two key challenges remain: resourcing and disclosure. Combined, they have caused the collapse of high-profile cases as underpaid and over-stretched teams of disclosure officers, investigators and prosecutors failed to disclose relevant evidence. The stand-out recommendation, an ‘Economic Crime Fighting Fund’, would see the SFO’s sizeable receipts be reinvested in fighting economic crime, and fund the reforms required. It is unlikely, though, that the Chancellor, already struggling to fund key services in her self-imposed handcuffs, will give up the £566m generated by the UK’s economic crime fighting agencies. Written...
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FingerprintsA suspect's fingerprints can always be taken if they consent. Where the suspect is at the police station and gives consent for their fingerprints to be taken, their consent must be given in writing.In the case of a person who is under the age of 17 but has attained the age of 14, the
Intimate samplesIntimate samples from a detained suspectAn intimate sample is:•a sample of blood, semen or any other tissue fluid, urine or pubic hair•a dental impression, or•a swab taken from any part of the genitals (including pubic hair) or from a person’s body orifice other than the mouthThe
Advising a suspect on identification proceduresShould a suspect ask for an identification procedure?A suspect may need legal advice on whether to request an identification procedure where the police have not offered one. A code of practice for the exercise by police of statutory powers to identify
Non-intimate samplesThe police have wide powers to take non-intimate samples from a person under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE 1984). Non-intimate samples are defined as meaning:•a sample of hair other than pubic hair•a sample taken from a nail or from under a nail•a swab from any
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