Sentences with phrase «better enforcement efforts»

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While trafficking routes have changed over time, in recent years narco subs and other vessels leaving southwest Colombia or northwest Ecuador laden with drug cargos often head out in the Pacific, even around the Galapagos Islands, before turning north in an effort to skirt law enforcement closer to home — which may include underwater sensors in Colombian waters — as well as US - led interdiction efforts.

Finally, because the Impartial Conduct Standards will become applicable on June 9, 2017, the Department believes that firms will make efforts to adhere to those standards, motivated both by their applicability and by the prospect of their likely continuation, as well as by the impending applicability of complementary consumer protections and / or enforcement mechanisms beginning on January 1, 2018, depending on the results of the Department's review of the Fiduciary Rule pursuant to the President's Memorandum.

The effort to nab these suspects, said Derenda and others, were made possible through partnership among several law enforcement agencies as well as the community.

Cuomo's announcement includes having the State Police step up enforcement efforts as well as increase their presence at businesses in order to ensure they are comply with the state's anti-drug laws as well as emergency regulations that ban the sale, manufacturing and distribution of synthetic drugs.

Trump plans on slashing the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by a quarter — targeting enforcement, grants for toxic cleanup efforts, as well as air and water protection programs.

An assistant U.S. attorney for 4 1⁄2 years, Sini, in his short Suffolk career, spent 14 months as a little - known law enforcement aide to County Executive Steve Bellone, and narrowly lost a 2015 campaign for county legislator, despite the best efforts of both Bellone and Suffolk Democratic chairman Richard Schaffer and $ 152,000 in campaign contributions to put him over the top.

I have spent the last 36 years working as a law enforcement officer in Rockland County and have been successful by working together and coordinating efforts with the town and village police departments to provide the best public safety services possible for our residents.

If drug enforcement agents can determine where heroin entering the United States is manufactured, they can better target domestic and foreign law enforcement efforts.

Law enforcement agencies and retailers such as Walmart and Best Buy balk at Apple's operating system and payment app privacy efforts.

In an effort to curb opioid drug abuse and addiction, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has issued new rules that limit the accessibility of Whitehall Training specialises in providing clients with Good Clinical Practice Training.

As the NELP commentary notes, even if some employers are illegally discriminating this does not automatically imply BTB efforts are misguided; strengthened enforcement of anti-discrimination laws as well as increased public and internal conversations sparked by BTB efforts may lead to reductions in such discriminatory practices over time.

Based upon a complaint I filed, Connecticut's State Election's Enforcement Commission has opened an official investigation into the alleged campaign finance violations of Residents for a Better Bridgeport, the political action committee that was created to support Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch's unsuccessful effort to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected Board of Education and replace it with one appointed by himself.

The General Counsel is responsible for the Office of Aviation Consumer Protection and Enforcement, and also coordinates the Department's legislative efforts, regulatory program, and involvement in legal proceedings before other agencies, as well as various operational and international legal matters.

«Good laws are important, but we know from past efforts to curb drunk driving and promote seatbelts that enforcement is the key,» said Secretary LaHood.

«We know from the success of national efforts like «Click It or Ticket» that combining good laws with effective enforcement and a strong public education campaign can — and does — change unsafe driving behavior,» said NHTSA Administrator David Strickland.

We need to be focusing our efforts — in both time and financial — to solving the problem with real solutions to the lack of enforcement issues in the state... not on creating laws that make us feel good but don't begin to actually deal with the problems we actually face.

Francesca Grifo, senior scientist and director of the scientific integrity program of the Union of Concerned Scientists, said in a news release that the new incident was a good reminder to British law enforcement agencies to «redouble their efforts to find the criminals who are behind» the initial release of the douments.

The report calls for more robust environmental laws and enforcement, calling on nations to «better coordinate their efforts to crack down on environmental crimes, strengthen law enforcement and judicial systems and increase funding for conservation programs to protect endangered animals.»

Recent studies show that deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon dropped by roughly 75 percent in the past five years, thanks to industry efforts to curb deforestation and grow crops elsewhere, widespread consumer pressure to produce deforestation - free agricultural products, and better enforcement of existing forest laws.

The USFWS justified lifting the 2014 ban by arguing that well - managed trophy hunting can benefit conservation «by generating funds to be used for protecting wildlife habitat, monitoring populations, wildlife management programs and law enforcement efforts».

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

In 1977, the now - defunct Law Enforcement Assistance Administration sought to collect arson expertise through a survey of fire investigators, but the effort may have done more harm than good.

In many cases, state law enforcement was outnumbered, overpowered, and overwhelmed, despite their best efforts.

There is good effort being made to fight money - laundering but I still believe banks and financial institutions ought to work together with law enforcement to get the best results.

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good - faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with an appropriate law enforcement investigation, current judicial proceeding, a court order, or legal process served on our website, or as required by law.

In short, China is aware that virtual currency trading still exists despite its best efforts to curb it domestically, and it now plans to step up enforcement by purposefully blocking access to certain sites and platforms.

Despite best efforts by collection agencies, most of the individuals and companies remain out of reach of law enforcement.

His efforts resulted in the establishment of Trauma Center, that consist of a well - trained clinical team specializing in the treatment of children and adults with histories of child maltreatment, that applies treatment models that are widely taught and implemented nationwide, a research lab that studies the effects of neurofeedback and MDMA on behavior, mood, and executive functioning, and numerous trainings nationwide to a variety of mental health professional, educators, parent groups, policy makers, and law enforcement personnel.

It has directed its enforcement offices to exercise a four - month period of restraint for FHA loans as long as there's a good faith effort to comply.

However, FinCEN recognizes that real estate professionals are well - positioned to spot money - laundering red flags, and may have access to information critical to enforcement efforts.

The new initiative will be part of the existing Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, which the administration created in 2009 to better coordinate federal efforts to crack down on violations, such as Ponzi schemes, insider trading and investment scams.

«Accordingly, and consistent with requests made by a bipartisan group of members of this very subcommittee, we are asking that the bureau or, if necessary, Congress, take action to establish a period until Jan. 31, 2016, suspending enforcement and liability where those subject to the rule use the forms and make their best efforts to follow the rule.

H.R. 2213, introduced by Congressman Steve Pearce, R - N.M., and co-sponsored by Congressman Brad Sherman, D - Calif., prevents enforcement of the integrated disclosure requirements and the filing of any related lawsuit if (1) the person has made a good - faith effort to comply with the requirements and (2) the conduct alleged to be in violation of the requirements occurred on or before Dec. 31, 2015, thus allowing stakeholders and the CFPB to test the effective operation of the rule.