British law enforcement agencies struggling with budget cuts and the technological advances of top-tier criminals have largely ignored a potentially powerful legal tool to disrupt their activities, a government watchdog said Tuesday. Nearly a third of 43 police departments in England and Wales failed to secure any "serious crime prevention orders," or SCPOs, to supervise and restrict the travel, banking and communications of convicted money launderers, fraudsters and drug traffickers over the course of a year, the Inspectorate of Constabulary disclosed in its latest annual report. The measures were introduced 10 years ago as an "important and cost-effective" tool to...
Bailiffs have seized the London home of a Saudi Arabian political dissident following a tax probe into the funding of a suspected plot to assassinate the regime's late king, U.K. law enforcement said Thursday.
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