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The Computer Crime Unit is a small but important section of the Fraud Squad of Scotland Yard. The Computer Crime Unit was formed in 1984 to develop and run training courses on a national basis to assist police officers deal with computer-based evidence and to deal with cases of computer crime such as hacking and malicious code (computer viruses and the like).
In 1994 the Computer Crime Unit joined with industry to improve computer crime prevention. The first major case was brought in 1988 when the Computer Crime Unit prosecuted Gold and Schifreen over hacking. However, this case was overturned by the House of Lords on the basis that simple hacking did not constitute either fraud nor forgery.
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The Diplomatic Protection Group is a squad of about 500 armed police officers of Scotland Yard focused on responding to the needs of London's diplomatic community. The squad's duties include protecting embassies from terrorist attacks.
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SO6 is the former designation of the Fraud Squad division of Britain's Scotland Yard, now the Economic and Specialist Crime division of the Serious Crime Group.
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Keith Blakelock was a Metropolitan police constable. He was born in 1945 and died in 1985. PC Keith Blakelock was one of an 11 officer squad sent to assist firefighters harassed by rioters in the Broadwater Farm Riot of October the 6th 1985. The police squad were beaten back, and while retreating PC Keith Blakelock slipped and was immediately surrounded by rioters who beat, chopped and stabbed him to death. Later a known murderer, Winston Silcott, was charged with the murder of PC Keith Blakelock and convicted, only to be released on appeal. Unconfirmed reports allege that Silcott was known and wanted for various serious crimes, including murder, which couldn't be proved and as such was deliberately wrongly convicted of PC Keith Blakelock's murder so as to imprison him for the safety of the community.
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Norman Hunter was an English association football player. He was born in 1943 at Eighton Banks. He started playing professionally for Leeds United FC in 1961, making 724 appearances before leaving Leeds for Bristol City FC in 1976 for whom he made 108 appearances before moving to Barnsley FC in 1979. He retired from professional football in 1983. During his career he was captain of the English soccer squad twenty-eight times. Norman Hunter played as a defender, and had a reputation for being an aggressive player, the popular saying at the time being 'Norman Hunter bites yer legs'.
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Mark Callaway is an American actor. He was born in 1962 at Houston, Texas. He is best known for his role as 'The Undertaker' in the 'World Wresting Entertainment' squad.
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Sara Calloway is an American actress. She was born in 1977 at Long Beach, California. She is known for her role as part of the 'World Wresting Entertainment' squad.
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The Ameli is a Spanish light machine-gun, similar in appearance to the German MG42, produced since 1982 and chambered for the 5.56 mm NATO cartridge. It uses a roller-locked delayed blowback operation and fires 850 or 1200 rounds per minute from a belt feed system. The Ameli is equipped with a quick-change barrel and can be used on a bipod for squad support or on a tripod for sustained fire.
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During the Second World War on the 10th of May 1940 German glider troops tried to captured the Belgian fort of Eben Emael which was strategically placed at the junction of the Albert Canal and Maas river, north of Liege, to guard a vital crossing-point and which was considered to be impregnable as any assault would have to be made across either the river or the canal. It was attacked by a squad of 85 German glider troops who landed on top of the fort and used special explosive charges to put the gun turrets out of action, but were unable to get into the fort itself as they were pinned down by crossfire from neighbouring forts. The following day German troops crossed the canal by boat to relieve the glider force, who had suffered relatively low casualties, and the fort surrendered. The gliders were quickly removed so for several years it was believed that the assault had been made across the canal.
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The Browning M1919 A6 was an American air-cooled recoil-operated machine-gun developed during the Second World War, and was produced from 1943 to 1954 being adopted in 1943 as the squad light machine-gun replacing the BAR. The M1919 A6 was a modification of the Browning M1919 A4 with the addition of a removable metal shoulder stock. muzzle flash hider and a bipod in place of the tripod. The Browning M1919 A6 fired the .30 inch calibre US Service cartridge fed from a 250-round cloth belt system at a rate of fire of 500 rounds-per-minute with a muzzle velocity of 860 meters per second and an effective range of 1000 meters..
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