Police cases

In the category of "Police cases", the toxicologist s greatest load comes from drinking and drugged driver cases. 

Mass Spec Analytical (MSA) Ltd. also conducted research on the analysis of Ecstasy tablets from different batches. The analysis and comparison of Ecstasy tablets using IRMS has subsequently been used in a number of police cases [88,157]. 

Intruder alarms are designed to give a warning of the presence of an intruder within or attempting to enter the protected area. Alarm systems may act as a deterrent to the casual or opportunist thief but they will do little or nothing to prevent a determined intrusion, and to be effective they must provoke an early response from the appropriate authority (in most cases the police). The warning may be a local audible device, but normally the alarm signal is transmitted by the telephone network to a central station operated by a security company on a 24-hour basis. 

DEA and the county police were in the process of subpoenaing records from the two companies that had provided the leads when the call came from the fire marshal that brought the case to a sudden head. 

The methods described above were tested at two sites in Hawaii The Nuuanu reservoir on Oahu, which is above downtown Honolulu, and the Waikoloa Dam on Hawaii Island, which is above the town of Waimea. In both cases the analyses were performed with and without topographic data obtained by a field survey crew. Detailed results from the ca e studies and results of a sensitivity analysis are reported elsewhere. The flood inundation maps produced for Waimea and Honolulu were overlaid onto several GIS infrastructure layers. These layers included major roads, secondary roads, schools, nursing homes, hospitals, police stations, fire stations, civil defense headquarters, chemical plants, electric plants and transmission lines, water plants, and wells (which could be contaminated by floodwaters). Critical facilities in the flood zone were identified and listed along with their mailing addresses and phone numbers of contact personnel. 

Because patients with schizophrenia often have little insight into their illness, they are usually brought to clinical attention by a family member, a friend, or, in unfortunate cases, the police. They may have suddenly failed school, been fired from a job, been arrested for trespass (commission of violent offenses is rare in schizophrenia), and been reclusive in their room for days or roaming the house at all hours of the night. 

At about midnight, an explosion is heard.Nathanael s father lies burnt and dead on the floor of his study. The incident is the subject of a police investigation, but Coppelius is nowhere to be found, and the case remains unresolved. 

The Gun-Free Schools Zones Act (part of the Crime Control Act of 1990) made it illegal for anyone (other than a police officer or security guard) to have a firearm in a school zone, or to carry unloaded firearms (unless in a locked container) within 1,000 feet of school grounds. The Supreme Court overmrned this law in 1995 in U.S. v. Lopez (see Representative Court Cases). 

Although it involves a knife rather than a gun, this case illustrates two continuing themes that will be applied to firearm regulation (1) the question of whether the right to bear arms is collective or individual, and (2) the application of the police power of the state to the types of weapons people may have and the manner in which they may be carried. This case cast an early vote for the collective position and upheld the state s police power. 

In the Georgia case of Nunn v. State, the court says that the state can use its police power to ban some kinds of weapons (such as concealable handguns) but not all firearms. This marks a general trend where courts uphold gun control measures that can be justified as an exercise of the police power. 

Fagan, Jeffrey. Policing Guns and Youth Violence. The Future of Children, vol. 12, Summer-Fall 2002, pp. 133ff. Presents eight case studies... 

B) Except in the case of forms and contents thereof regarding a purchaser who is prohibited by subsection (g) or (n) of section 922 of this title from receipt of a firearm, the department of State police or State law enforcement agency or local law enforcement agency of the local jurisdiction shall not disclose any such form or the contents thereof to any person or entity, and shall destroy each such form and any record of the contents thereof no more than 20 days from the date such form is received. No later than the date that is 6 months after the effective date of this subparagraph, and at the end of each 6-month period thereafter, the department of State police or State law enforce-... 

Two major sources of resentment were identifiable the first concerned the perception that social workers expected other practitioners to act as their eyes and ears and police their clients. The second concerned the potential treatment of a case once it had passed onto social work. Both issues connected intimately with their continued engagement with the adult client and/or children. The following health visitor provided a clear example of this ... 

Viewed collectively, the preceding chapters clearly pertain to a familiar literary genre called scholarship. Due however to certain conditions unique to this particular investigation, here specifically treated as a case, another familiar literary staple necessarily informs the operations of this narrative, the detective story. As we should all know, the basic trinity of all serious police investigation comprises the following elements 1) the perpetrators confessions, 2) corroborating statements by witnesses, and, most reliable, 3)... 

The time, cost, complexity and specialised nature of the procedures required to obtain patent protection, and also the need for the patent owner to take the responsibility for policing infringements by bringing cases in the civil courts, act as disincentives to potential patentees particularly if they are individuals or small companies with very limited resources. 

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