At present, 19 forces have fewer than 2, 000 officers - mostly in rural areas - with senior officers admitting that some struggle to meet the challenges of modern crime.
Back in 1998 Ms. Lopez spent a lot of screen time in South Florida as a U.S. marshal in Steven Soderbergh's "Out of Sight, " which seemed phenomenally smart and funny at the time, and remains the gold standard for modern crime capers.
Mr Doyle and Ms Granholm, both former attorneys-general, have focused on modern styles of crime, such as terrorism and internet scams.
So it's not new in that sense, what it is is new in its application and of course we're trying to make a great deal of how we deal with the modern problems, public services, crime, law and order, these are modern problems that worry people and what we're trying to make sure of is that they understand precisely where we stand.
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Even during recent years of cartel crime, modern Mexico has emerged a vital trade partner for U.S. businesses.
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"Having investments and holding shares in modern Britain is not a crime, declaring them is imperative, " he said.
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Two things distinguished this, the longest-running Royal Commission in Australian history, from a succession of earlier inquiries into crime and corruption: modern technology, coupled with the tenacity of the man who presided over the commission.
Controversial Japanese director Takashi Miike's Straw Shield is a crime-thriller set in modern day politics while Iranian director, Asghar Farhadi - who won an Oscar for his film A Separation - directs The Artist actress Berenice Bejo in his new film The Past.
The fact that his views were broadly those of the typical modern Briton mildly redistributionist, tough on crime, relaxed about race and sex did not mean they were confected.
"That's a legitimate worry, " said Mr Bocque with regards to the guards' crime concerns, though he stressed that modern security technologies and revised routines have in recent years almost eliminated injuries among security staff transporting money.
He notes that the intensifying of modern urban violence not to mention street crime and social misery can be traced to the crack epidemic unleashed on American cities in the late 1980s when cocaine arrived in a cheap and hyper-potent form.
The storyline follows a team of modern day investigators as they use alien technology to solve crime, both alien and human.
As Josephine Tey so elegantly demonstrated in her 1951 crime novel "The Daughter of Time, " no modern court would convict Richard III of the murder of the princes in the Tower, whose possible skeletons discovered in 1674 under the staircase leading to the chapel ought now to be disinterred from Westminster Abbey and subjected to DNA tests and modern pathology examinations.
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''Human trafficking is a crime that can be hidden from public sight, but this modern day slavery will not escape the attention of the authorities and we will work tirelessly to set the innocent victims of such crimes free and hold those responsible for such exploitation to account.
"The ability to use modern technology to improve communication and information sharing between police and the community on crime issues is a force multiplier that is more relevant and needed than ever before, " said Todd Miller, Director of Public Safety, Mankato, MN Department of Public Safety and Chair of the International Association of Chiefs of Police Community Policing Section.
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"While match fixers use modern technology to carry out their activities, we are still using centuries-old laws and practices to fight this crime against the game of football and this makes us fall behind, " Mr. Noble told a conference in Kuala Lumpur on match-fixing.
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