In 2010 both the SEC and state securities regulators set up special task forces to police structured products.
Dodd-Frank gave rulemaking authority to at least eight agencies, for example, and the Securities and Exchange Commission is constantly fighting with the Justice Dept. and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission over who should police financial fraud and products like derivatives.
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Later, when they started their meal-delivery company, The Fresh Diet, Duchman would often get pulled over by the cops for running red lights in the early hours of the morning when transporting products the police assumed he was carrying meals for the elderly and let him go (he never corrected them).
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The website Callin' Out on Etsy helps police Etsy's merchandise by listing products and shops that appear to be rule breakers.
Codespear says the Michigan State Police will deploy its IP-based products for alert notifications and communication among state, county and municipal emergency managers and first responders.
The company will record unspecified charges for the job cuts that will take place its networks sector, which makes communications products for cellular infrastructure, police, fire departments and the military, and broadband.
Drug regulators, who do get access to some of the hidden results, often guard them jealously, even from academic researchers, seeming to serve the interests of the firms whose products they are supposed to police.
In Ipswich, two-thirds of off licences have taken the products off their shelves, which police say has helped to halve drink-related street crime.
According to the New York Police Department, some 3, 890 Apple products were stolen in 2012, pushing crime figures up and prompting Mayor Bloomberg to say that thieves in the city were showing a preference for Apple goods.
Big consumer-tech firms will need to intensify their efforts to police subcontractors and think even harder about how to make their products greener if they are to avoid continual criticism in the post-PC world.
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Production was originally stopped on 12 February following a raid by police and FSA officials investigating the discovery of horsemeat in processed beef products.
Stephen Crombie, the Chief Information Officer of the New Zealand Police force, told The National Business Review why it chose Apple products over competing items from Google, BlackBerry or Microsoft.
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Police in the Irish Republic were asked to investigate after horsemeat was found in beef products at a third factory.
Shanghai police were tipped off by tech retailers in one Shanghai retail district, and investigators later discovered that the products were being made by a brother and sister duo in their homes.
Irish police and soldiers are carrying out checks at the Northern Ireland border to enforce the ban on livestock and animal products being imported from Northern Ireland.
In a statement, Irish Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney said he had asked the police to join the investigation by his department's special investigations unit into how the horsemeat had got into beef products at the factories.
Under her leadership, the council has taken on matters including requiring electronics manufacturers to collect their products for recycling, making it tougher for immigration officials to deport people being released from city jails or police custody and barring employers from discriminating against unemployed job applicants the last of which Bloomberg vetoed.
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