Stephen House, Chief Constable of the new Police Service of Scotland, is having discussions with Vic Emery, chairman of civilian oversight body the Scottish Police Authority (SPA), over who should have control over the deployment of police staff.

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We must avoid reducing unilaterally or otherwise removing from service or from their present deployment locations forces affected by future arms control agreements until such agreements have been completed and ratified.

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Control would still reside with the contributing nation-state that hired the private security company, and contracts can be designed to maintain control of the duration of deployment and implementation of armed force.

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Not unilaterally reducing or removing forces affected by future arms control agreements from service or from their present deployment locations until such agreements have been completed and ratified.

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The last century saw deployment of anti-malarial drugs and a range of control measures, from marsh drainage to insecticides to bednets, across the tropical regions that are the disease's hinterlands.

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GuardianEdge products offer a breadth of encryption, port, device and file type control technologies while establishing a market-leading position in solving the operational issues of deployment, management, scalability, reporting, auditing and user productivity at the lowest possible total cost.

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France has been pushing for the swift deployment of an African Union-backed force, the International Support Mission to Mali (Afisma), to take control of Malian towns.

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While the survey finds cost control as the major impetus to adopt cloud applications (17 percent say so), speed of application deployment (14 percent) and mobile access (13 percent) also rate as reasons to go to cloud.

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