international joint investigation team Quick reference
A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (2 ed.)
...joint investigation team (colloq. ‘JIT’ ) Any investigation team formed to carry out joint investigations into particular offences with cross‐border elements in accordance with any framework decision on joint investigation teams adopted under Article 34 of the Treaty on European Union ; the Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters , and the Protocol to that Convention, established in accordance with that Article of that Treaty; or any international agreement to which the United Kingdom is a party and which is specified in an order...
joint investigation team
6 The European Printing Revolution Reference library
Cristina Dondi
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...from that of MSS is the necessary collaboration of individuals, each contributing his or her own skills or assets. Behind the publication of most editions lay the joint efforts of artisan printers, financial backers, commercial dealers, and scholars. Never before had these different segments of society worked so closely together. The 15 th -century printer normally operated in an office where a team of people with different skills was assigned to various aspects of the technical process. The few exceptions, such as wandering printers, would necessarily have had...
Into Exile: From the Assyrian Conquest of Israel to the Fall of Babylon Reference library
Mordechai Cogan
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...… I locked him up within Jerusalem, his royal city, like a bird in a cage. I surrounded him with earthworks, and made it unthinkable for him to exit by the city gate. Simultaneous with the physical pressure, Sennacherib dispatched a high-level team of ranking Assyrian officers to meet their Judean counterparts at the upper pool on the Fuller's Field road to the north of Jerusalem's city walls. In the carefully crafted speech reported in 2 Kings 18.19–35 , the Rab-shakeh, an Assyrian official who is presented as having more...
2 Corinthians Reference library
Margaret MacDonald and Margaret MacDonald
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...( cf. Phil 1:1–2; Col 1:1–2; 1 Thess 1:1–2 ; Thess 1:1–2 ). It is not easy to evaluate the significance of this joint enterprise in modern terms. On the one hand, it is clear that Timothy's authority in the church was not equal to that of Paul; he was dependent upon Paul. On the other hand, Paul worked very closely with associates and they were instrumental to the success of his mission. Paul exercised his leadership as part of a team and it is misleading to think of the relationship between Paul and his fellow-workers as unilaterally hierarchical. In...
Acts Reference library
Loveday Alexander and Loveday Alexander
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...prepared for through an extraordinary sequence of visions and encounters in Caesarea. Luke makes it quite clear that this crucial development in the history of the church comes about in response to God's initiative; and it is not Paul but Peter, the central figure of the apostolic team in Jerusalem, who is given the responsibility of grasping the vision (told three times over, like that of Paul) and passing it on to the church. 9:32–5 Peter and Aeneas The summary of v. 31 has swung the narrative back to the centre, and we now return to the Jerusalem church...
John Michael Bishop
In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Section 47 enquiry Quick reference
A Dictionary of Social Work and Social Care (2 ed.)
...her/his welfare. In reality ‘local authority’ will mean the local children’s social work team responsible for investigating allegations of abuse in respect of children living in its area. If there is a possibility that a criminal offence has been committed against the child, the team will discuss the situation with the local police, usually a dedicated child protection team of specially trained officers. A judgement will be reached on whether a joint investigation is needed by social workers and police or whether a single agency enquiry is to be...
Bishop, John Michael Quick reference
A Dictionary of Scientists
...becoming senior investigator ( 1966 ) and assistant professor ( 1968 ). He was appointed professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, in 1972 , and in 1981 he became director of the G. W. Hooper Research Foundation. Bishop, working in collaboration with Harold Varmus , demonstrated for the first time that cancer-causing genes ( oncogenes ) carried by certain viruses are derived from normal genes present in the cells of their host, known as proto-oncogenes . This work by the team at the University...
Schengen Agreement Quick reference
A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (2 ed.)
...Co-operation) Act 2003 gave effect to the provisions relating to police cooperation and gave the UK access to the Schengen Information System—a database of missing and wanted persons and items across Europe. See also foreign surveillance operations ; international joint investigation teams ; mutual assistance in criminal matters ; mutual legal assistance ; passport...
Healthcare Teams as Agents for Change in Health and Risk Messaging Reference library
Kevin Real and Andy Pilny
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Health and Risk Message Design and Processing
...studying healthcare team communication as variations in this important construct has implications for how teams operate in health care contexts. Health and risk messages can take many shapes and operate across many contexts and channels. Considering the dynamics of healthcare teams operating in multiteam system and network ecosystems provides many new possibilities for understanding healthcare team communication. Discussion of the Literature Communication in teams has been recognized by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the Joint Commission as crucial to...
assault Quick reference
A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (2 ed.)
...power, or a person who is assisting a designated officer in the exercise of such a power; • a member of an NCA-led international joint investigation team: Sch 5, para 3(1), Crime and Courts Act 2013; • a traffic officer: s 10, Traffic Management Act 2004; • a court security officer : s 57, Courts Act 2003; • a Supreme Court Security Officer: Constitutional Reform Act; • an accredited financial investigator acting in the exercise of a relevant power: s 435A Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 . Certain kinds of more serious assault are known as ...
mutual (legal) assistance Reference library
Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (3 ed.)
...years. For example, the Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance between the European Union and the United States of America of 25 June 2003 ( O.J. 2004/L 181/34 ) provides for general assistance in criminal matters, particularly assistance in bank information (art. 4), joint investigative teams (art. 5), video conferencing (art. 6) and assistance to administrative authorities (art. 8), coupled with safeguards to protect personal and other data (art. 9), and confidentiality (art. 10). Mutual assistance commitments can be viewed as a corollary to extradition ....
Brothwell, Donald Reginald (Don) (1933–2016) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
...there moved to the University of York in 1993 as Professor of Human Palaeoecology. Throughout his career he had a wide range of interests, including work on bog bodies that led to him leading a team to study Lindow Man in the 1980s and investigations of mummies from Yemen in the 1990s. In 1974 he founded the Journal of Archaeological Science and served as joint editor through to 1993. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Abio.: D. Brothwell , 2016, A faith in archaeological science: Reflections of a life . Oxford: Archaeopress...
obstructing a police officer, etc. Quick reference
A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (2 ed.)
...deal with obstructing other particular categories of public servant. These include: • an officer of HM Revenue and Customs : s 31, Commissioner for Revenue and Customs Act 2005; • designated staff of the National Crime Agency; • a member of an international joint investigation team : s 57, Serious Organized Crime and Police Act 2005; • a trading standards officer: s 29, Trade Descriptions Act 1968; • a court officer executing process against unauthorized occupants: s 10, Criminal Law Act 1977; • a Community Support Officer : s 46, Police Reform...
Ewing, W. M. (1906–74) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...the mid-1950s was deep drilling in the ocean to penetrate the basalt ocean floor and reach the Mohorovicić discontinuity. The project never materialized, but in 1968 , with the marine drilling ship Glomar Challenger as his base at sea, Ewing began the first of many investigations of the Joint Oceanographic Institutions Deep Earth Sampling (JOIDES) project. This drilled at 31 sites in the Atlantic and at 53 sites in the Pacific to obtain cores of basalt to test the ocean-spreading hypothesis. The results were spectacular and confirmatory. JOIDES and its...
Casas Grandes Reference library
Paul E. Minnis
The Oxford Companion To Archaeology (2 ed.)
...that the connections between Paquimé and Mesoamerica were minimal. They argue that the strongest relationships were between Casas Grandes and its surrounding communities and adjacent cultural regions to the north and west. Currently, there are several international teams investigating the internal organization of the Casas Grandes regional system in northwestern Chihuahua. The Mexican government has increased stabilization efforts and is constructing a new archaeological museum at the site. [ See also North America: The North American Southwest . ]...
Operation Condor Reference library
Robert O. Kirkland
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
...The operation was jointly conducted by Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. According to a declassified 1976 U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) report, Condor had several aspects. The first was mutual cooperation among military intelligence services, including the exchange of intelligence information and coordination of political surveillance. The second was cross-border operations to detain dissidents. The third and most secret was known as Phase III, which was the formation of special teams of agents to travel...
Disaster Archaeology Reference library
Richard A. Gould
The Oxford Companion To Archaeology (2 ed.)
...and forensic recovery that ultimately evolved into the current Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) based at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. Human remains from the wreck site were transferred to the Central Identification Laboratory, Hawaii (CILHI) where they were examined in detail by Dr. Tadao Furue , a physical anthropologist whose tenacity and drive for perfection led to the identification and repatriation of the remains of the fliers to their families. JPAC continues to send teams of forensic archaeologists and anthropologists to different,...
