The Observer index, January-December 2001 ... - Microform

* Interview with actress Joan Plowright on the publication of her
memoirs which reveal the 25 years as Laurence Olivier's wife
07/10/01 R 3 1>5 Photographs
POETRY
* Sahara Sunday Spain is 9, writes poetry and is being hailed as
a star in America - see Spain, Sahara Sunday 04/02/01
* Killed in Crossfire by Tom Paulin 18/02/01 R 15 4
* Anne Riddler, poet, who died earlier this month is remembered
by Peter Forbes - see Riddler, Anne 28/10/01
* By turning men's idea of poetry on its head, women poets
discovered a voice for themselves 04/11/01 R 2 1>6
Photographs
POKER: BETS, BLUFFS AND BAD BEATS
* See Book Reviews - Buckley, Will 18/03/01
POLICE
* Britain's biggest police force is racist, according to its own
staff 14/01/01 B 2 2>7 Photograph
* How police failed race attack victim - see Racism 04/02/01
* The Ministry of Defence police force is to be transformed into
a rapid response squad ready to intervene in strikes and protests
across the country - Ministry of Defence 04/02/01
* Ken Livingstone is to intervene in the case of police
harassment of a black community worker 18/03/01 B 2 4>6
Photograph
* Crime fears as five police stations shut each month since
Labour came into power - see Crime 25/03/01
* Police budgets are being slashed under Labour, with a study
showing that Tony Blair has halved the annual increase to forces
across England 15/04/01 B 11 1>2
* Police were accused of over-reacting to the threat of May Day
violence in London and creating an atmosphere which makes a
serious riot more likely - see Demonstrations & Protests
29/04/01
* Unrepentant police are refusing to apologise to bystanders
penned in by riot officers at the end of last week's May Day anticapitalist
demonstrations 06/05/01 B 12 1>8 Photograph
* British police are likely to be the first in the world to acquire a
national database that can identify criminals from foot prints
20/05/01 B 9 7
* British police officers could soon be using a non-lethal
'supergun' developed in the US to maintain order during riots and
periods of civil unrest 03/06/01 B 7 1>2 Illustration
* A covert operation by West Midlands police against a gang of
crack dealers put the lives of two elite undercover officers at risk
- report on a catalogue of errors - see Crime 10/06/01
* Underperforming police forces across the country are to be
'named and shamed' in a set of league tables to be published later
this year 17/06/01 B 3 1>3 Photograph
* Paul Whitehouse, the Chief Constable of Sussex who resigned
last week has called for a public inquiry into the events that led
to him being forced out - see Whitehouse, Paul 01/07/01
* Tranquilliser guns are to be issued to police in an attempt to
halt the number of fatal shootings by armed officers 15/07/01 B
1>2 1>3 Cartoon
* Police officers involved in dealing with the Bradford race riots
are launching a claim for millions of pounds in damages over the
'trauma' they suffered 29/07/01 B 1 1>3
* Elite police firearms units are facing a recruitment crisis that
threatens to reduce dramatically the numbers of armed police
available to patrol Britain's streets 29/07/01 B 10 1>2
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* The family of an unarmed man shot dead in his bedroom by
police have been denied a public inquiry and inquest into the
death 05/08/01 B 14 5>7 Photograph
* Boxer Lennox Lewis will spearhead a dramatic new police
recruitment drive amid fears that some forces are failing to hire
enough black and Asian officers 05/08/01 B 5 6>7 Photograph
* British police are being armed 'by stealth' as gun use reaches
record levels 05/08/01 B 5 1>5 Photograph
* The makers of a documentary on deaths in police custody are
defying threats to stop the film being shown 12/08/01 B 10 1>6
Photographs
* Police officers are to face random drug tests in an
unprecedented crackdown on the growing problem of substance
abuse in forces throughout Britain 19/08/01 B 1 1>3
* Nick Ross, the presenter of the BBC's Crimewatch
programme, has launched a bitter attack on the Government's
crime policies, accusing Ministers of ignoring victims in favour
of criminals - see Crime 21/10/01
* Senior police officers have called for ecstasy to be treated as
less dangerous then heroin or cocaine, just days after the
Government ordered a relaxation of the cannabis laws - see
Drugs & Drug Abuse 28/10/01
* Previously unseen pictures taken by the Photography Branch
of the Metropolitan Police, a century after the unit was set up
04/11/01 M 18>24 1>4 Photographs
* Police attitudes to Ecstasy may be softening, but some old
ravers are beginning to worry that there's a price to pay for the
good times they had 10 years ago - see Drugs & Drug Abuse
25/11/01
* Police forces across the world will get unrestricted access to
medical records and bank details of Britons under radical powers
granted by the new anti-terrorism Bill 25/11/01 B 12 7>8
* Senior police officers are at loggerheads - should they pursue
users of ecstasy or switch to softly-softly? 25/11/01 B 22 1>7
Photographs
* Home Secretary, David Blunkett has signalled the single
biggest overhaul of failing police forces 02/12/01 B 1, 3 7>8
* The worst police force in England and Wales is Greater
Manchester, according to an Observer survey 02/12/01 B 9 3>8
* Britain's top police officers have called for the mass
prescription of heroin to addicts on the NHS - see Drugs & Drug
Abuse 09/12/01
* Police want new powers to lock up paedophiles - see
Paedophiles 16/12/01
* Police are demanding new powers from the Government that
would allow them to take DNA samples from thousands of
corpses in a bid to solve serious crimes - see Crime 23/12/01
POLITICS
* As the row over million pound donations to the Labour Party
continues, a look at the schmoozers who set up the deals and
how they go about convincing people to splash their cash
07/01/01 B 15 1>8 Photographs
* The Prime Minister will reject calls for state funding of
political parties because he does not believe that voters would
stomach the millions of pounds it would cost the taxpayer
07/01/01 B 2 2>3
* Labour vetoes softening of stance on drug laws 07/01/01 B 3
1>4
* William Hague's Shadow Cabinet plan escape after an election
they expect to lose 07/01/01 B 4 7>8
* Education and Employment Secretary, David Blunkett insists
that jobs are 'there for the taking' and that anyone under 50 who