11.   The City Council has moved to strengthen civilian oversight of the Los Angeles Police Department despite opposition from the police chief.

12.   The version voted out of the House of Commons on Tuesday improves efforts to recruit Catholics into the police and strengthens the powers of a new civilian oversight board.

13.   While many community leaders wanted more civilian oversight, police officials generally said discipline should come from within the department.

14.   Feith said the main reason for creating the new office was to provide civilian oversight of information policy in military operations.

15.   In another development, the civilian oversight board for the Police Department demanded immediate access to the tapes Fuhrman made with a North Carolina screenwriting professor.

16.   The caucus eventually calls for outside civilian oversight of the State Police.