"Warrants authorising phone taps treble"

[Roland Perry]

In article <4f68c9df2cukcrypto@vigay.com>, Paul Vigay 
<ukcrypto@vigay.com> writes
>In a dim and distant universe <W4lUJJyziynHFAOC@perry.co.uk>,
>   Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com> enlightened us thusly:
>[Snippety snip]

Indeed. If we un-snippety snip my footnote:

[1] notwithstanding the apparent conflation, a reduction on the previous
      period

>> Compared to 253k (sic) [1] in England, this number appears to be a
>> bargain!

The that's what I was getting at.

>Which still seems to be lower than the number quoted for last year, which
>was 439,000 according to The Times back in Feb 2007 - see
>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1409395.ece
>
>or I'm missing something.

There may be a 9month/12month issue here (but even then the number has 
reduced).

>> It will be interesting to see the report, which is due around now and is
>> clearly what's triggered these news reports.
>
>At http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/hc0708/hc02/0252/0252.pdf

And as Simon says, on R5Live Midday News. About 1 minute into the show 
(should be available for a week on Listen Again).
-- 
Roland Perry