In this post I refer to the beat bobby: not online crime investigators, high tech crime units, serious and organised crime or any other specialised unit. The everyday Police officer that we all see racing around the streets on blues and twos. For simplicity this also refers Neighbourhood Policing Teams (NPT) and to Police Community […]
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Online safety goes from strength to strength with some great initiatives coming out. One of these initiatives was launched on 7th Feb 2012, Safer Internet Day, known as the eSafety Label. This is an online safety support and accreditation system for schools throughout Europe. The idea behind this is great, and has been a long
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I was recently to put a few basic pointers together for a school who are having a parents forum in a couple of days to talk about online safety. I have been meaning to blog something similar for a while so it’s a good opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. 1. Age is
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What is Watchover Wednesday? Have a look HERE, basically it is a new trend by mainly young girls posting YouTube videos and asking, “Am I pretty?”. Am I concerned about it? Yes, definitely! Is it anything new? No, it isn’t! Of course all young girls want to be pretty, and want everyone else to think
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Although I and many readers of this blog are from the UK, it is always interesting to keep up with what is going on overseas, particularly Europe, USA and Canada. Invariably what happens over there tends to affect us in one way or another. There is quite a lot of debate going on in
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