On 5 July 2010, the private was charged with several offences relating to stealing secret information.

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But this is a problematic way of analysing statistics, as several offences could be committed by one person.

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"As well as identifying several hundred offences, Operation Overlord has helped police in Scotland and England gather vital intelligence, which will prove essential for future enforcement initiatives, " he said.

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But it is now matching 3, 000 offences a month including last year several hundred murders, and thousands of rapes and other violent offences.

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Federal investigators, who had been working on a case against Mr Blagojevich for several years, charged him last Tuesday with a number of offences, including soliciting a bribe.

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Mr Saakashvili complained last month that members of his party were being victimised when several ministers under the previous government were arrested on suspicion of various offences.

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They are most appalled by the way the hierarchy have protected their own: by the way, for example, Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston moved several offending priests around from parish to parish, where they simply repeated their offences.

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