I don't think that foreign aid or other types of international development assistance will be made conditional on improved labor market practices, nor do I think that the ILO will gain any enforcement powers.
Bristol and Reading councils are significant as they are part of a group of 20 authorities outside London who want to gain extra enforcement powers to fine motorists for offences like stopping in box junctions and ignoring no-right-turn signs.
But in other parts of the world, another proposal to increase copyright enforcement is gaining momentum, despite protests from opponents concerned about Internet censorship.
But the S.E.C,, emboldened after shuffling its enforcement staff and gaining new powers through the Dodd-Frank regulatory law, did file 735 enforcement actions last fiscal year.
A story that transfixed millions of television viewers last week — about a child aboard a spaceshiplike balloon as it floated uncontrollably across the Colorado landscape — was concocted by the boy's parents to gain publicity, law enforcement officials said Sunday.
As a criminal investigation into financial irregularities at a large Roman Catholic church in Queens gained momentum, law enforcement officials said yesterday that some questions might never be answered, including precisely how much money was missing, where it had gone and how many people were culpable.
The cases show that law enforcement agencies are gaining some traction in the battle against the technological anonymity that the Internet provides criminals.
He faces two counts: kidnapping conspiracy, which carries a maximum life sentence, and illegally gaining access to a law enforcement database, for which he could face up to five years in prison.
The verdict came on the 12th day of Mr. Valle's trial in Federal District Court, where he was also convicted of illegally gaining access to a law enforcement database that prosecutors said he had used to conduct research on potential victims.
The episode was one of several examples of misconduct cited by federal prosecutors as they arrested Officer Kacamakovic, 31, a seven-year veteran of the force, on charges of a civil rights violation and gaining access to a law enforcement database without authorization.
