Sentences with phrase «by criminal elements in»

The scarcity of illegal guns is reportedly so bad that stolen antique guns are frequently used by gangs, and U.K. law enforcement officials now estimate that only around 1,000 guns are in use by criminal elements in the entirety of the U.K.

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The ex-militant leaders, under the aegis of the Leadership Peace and Cultural Development Initiative, LPCDI, led by Chief Reuben Wilson, insisted that those behind the attacks were criminal elements, who were out to disrupt the peace in the region and set the Federal Government against the people of the region.

«The military and other security agencies will continue to discharge their lawful duties in the Niger Delta and any other part of the country in a most professional manner devoid of the claim by the criminal elements of harassment, intimidation and arrest.

He further urged security agencies in the country to step up their intelligence activities so as to prevent activities of criminals and also unravel any crime committed against Nigerians by undesirable elements in the society.

Speaking on the renewed vandalism of pipelines in the Niger Delta, DHQ said, «These attacks were carried out by some criminal elements who are bent on destroying the nation's strategic assets which will no longer be tolerated.

His statement in full, «The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to the unfortunate statement made by a former Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, during the convocation ceremony of the Taraba State University on Saturday 24 March 2018 in which he categorically asserted that the Armed Forces of Nigeria was colluding with militias and other criminal elements and was unable to provide security for the citizens of Taraba State.

In the wake of the Force determination to rid the state of criminal elements, no fewer than 30 kidnapping, armed robbery and other offences suspects, terrorising kogi state have been arrested by the men of the Kogi state command of the Nigeria Police force.

«This renewed onslaught on criminal elements in Kogi State is designed by the Inspector - General of Police to stem the tide of kidnapping for ransom armed robbery and other criminal activities and shall be sustained until all the criminal elements are flushed out of the State» the statement said.

The panel, appointed in early July by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in response to this year's torrent of public corruption scandals, last month sent letters to both chambers requesting that members deriving more than $ 20,000 in outside income disclose their sources, and that lawmakers who are attorneys disclose their civil or criminal clients — an element of transparency that the Legislature has resisted for years, claiming it violates attorney - client privilege.

«We realize that by removing those areas, that minimizes the ability for the criminal element to flourish in those neighborhoods,» Fowler said.

A statement by Jimoh Moshood, the police spokesman, said the measures have been taken by the IGP to nip in the bud and prevent further attacks on innocent Nigerians by suspected herdsmen and other criminal elements in the mentioned States.

To this end, the Deputy Inspector General of Police Operations has been dispatched by the IGP to Benue State to muster, coordinate and supervise the implementation of the new security strategies put in place by the Force to put an immediate end to the senseless killings and violence unleashed on innocent Nigerians by suspected herdsmen and other criminal elements in the two States.

HELD in derision on account of its inherent weaknesses, the Nigerian prison system is constantly being exploited by criminal elements.

Positive identification and full criminal background checks — as opposed to the one element of a simple screening against the national sex offender registry - are most effectively utilized by traditional «brick and mortar» dating services such as eLove Matchmaking where our matchmakers meet every new member in person.

Online dating scam warning issued by police — Five women have fallen victim to an online dating scam with criminal elements... goods bought with stolen credit cards and sending them on to an address in Ghana, believing they were for a man they had met on an online dating site.

Sullied Vietnam vet Mac Conway is tempted by criminal elements after returing home to Memphis in 1972.

The story takes place in 1988, when New York City is beginning to be overrun by by the criminal element, most notably in deadly thug Russians who have come over to take over the cocaine empire that is sweeping the neighborhoods.

One of the people killed happens to be a special agent for the FBI stationed in Saudi Arabia, and some of his cohorts in the Bureau back home refuse to sit idly by as the ham - fisted Saudi investigators bumble their way through another fruitless search for the criminal elements responsible.

Written and directed by Pearce, the film revolves around a secret hospital in near - future Los Angeles that caters to the criminal element.

RoboCop is set in near future Detroit, where the city streets are just about completely dominated by the criminal element, while the police are neither respected nor welcome; they are virtually walking targets out there.

As is the element of criminal ineptitude, here demonstrated by the majority as two gangs converge in an abandoned Boston warehouse to negotiate an illegal arms deal circa the late»70s, only to have it go hopelessly (and hilariously) awry.

Ever since, the legal requirement for security officers to be licensed has had a significantly positive impact upon public perceptions of the UK's private security industry, by reducing the freedom of criminal elements to operate in the sector, while providing tangible evidence of an individuals» eligibility and suitability to provide a professional service.

The right to a trial by jury in a criminal case is perhaps the most revered element of the American criminal justice system.

Courts «view jury nullification as a pernicious element in the criminal justice system... the jury's official role in court proceedings is limited solely to judging the facts of the case and applying the law as given by the judge to those facts» (Travis Hreno, «Necessity and Jury Nullification» (2007) 20 CJLJ 351 at para. 2)

But, in U.S. criminal law, even when a victim's lack of consent is an element of the crime, such as for the crimes of theft or rape, criminal liability can not be eliminated by having the victim ratify the perpetrator's conduct after the fact.

Civil Liability Without Criminal Liability in New Mexico If an individual was injured by the negligence of another party, he or she may be able to bring a negligence claim against that party if he or she can establish the elements of negligence.

Previous subjects for research, often involving an international comparative element, have included the contracting of criminal defence services, innovation in civil services including alternative dispute resolution and a study of legal aid that included looking at aspects of provision in the Netherlands, Canada, Australia and the United States, published in A Strategy for Justice (published by LAG in 1992).

As to the constituent elements of the offence created by Criminal Code s. 122, the CanLII headnote for, R. v. Boulanger, 2006 SCC 32, states in part (see paragraph 58 of the judgment):

The Rome Statute; The Rules of Procedure and Evidence; The Elements of Crimes; The Regulations of the Court; The Regulations of the Registry; The Code of Professional Conduct for counsel; The Code of Judicial Ethics; The Staff Regulations; The Financial Regulations and Rules; The Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court; Agreement between the International Criminal Court and the United Nations; The Headquarters Agreement with the Host State; Any other material as decided by the Presidency in consultation with the Prosecutor and / or the Registrar.

«Tremeear's is preferred by judges who don't know much about criminal law because of the clear statements of the elements of the offence in the commentary.