links for 2007-01-13

• Government pulls plug on agency to seize crime profits - Law - Times Online
  SOCA to recover the assets of the Assets Recovery Agency
  (tags: police criminaljustice)
• Tagging: Cheap alternative option that has come at a cost
  If tagging is a form of surveillance, is this a contra-indication for surveillance-led crime prevention? OTOH, how does 1k violent (re)offences in 130k tagged since 1999 compare to incarceral reoffence rates?
  (tags: prison criminaljustice publicsector)
• RFID Journal - Genesis of the Versatile RFID Tag
  The history of the rfid tag
  (tags: rfid transport history)
• North Wales Police: 10 officers with BlackBerry to Niche's RMS = 12 officers
  300 officer pilot, now scaling up, £0.6m saved (annually?) - useful ROI numbers. Wish we'd delivered this project :)
  (tags: police criminaljustice publicsector mobile blackberry)
• eGov monitor: 551 of 577 gov websites to go in Transformational Gov programme
  (tags: publicsector)
• BBC - Radio 4 Front Row - Past Programmes
  10 Jan 2007, Signature Tunes: Mark Lawson interviews David Lowe and my friend Bella Saer about their new, re-composed Panorama theme tune.
  (tags: music tv radio bbc bellasaer)