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Fresno police narcotics squad
A year after the Fresno Police Department disbanded its major narcotics squad, a criminal case under way in federal court is shedding light on what may have gone wrong.
The case involves Theresa Martinez, who is on trial in U.S. District Court... Read more
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Powerful Algerian police chief
The powerful chief of Algeria's national police, on the front line in the war against Islamist insurgents, was shot and killed by a colleague during a meeting Thursday at his headquarters, authorities said.
Two others were injured in the attack on Ali... Read more
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No bond for man who claims pol
Bond has been denied for a man who is awaiting a new trial for murder. Cortez Brown has been behind bars for almost 20 years for a 1990 double murder that he maintains he did not commit.
Brown was on death... Read more
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Man claims cop beat him in res
A south suburban man filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against a South Holland police officer, claiming the officer beat him with a firearm in a restaurant bathroom and later gave false testimony about the incident.
Larry Hargrove, of Calumet City, claims... Read more
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NYPD Union Rep Called "Rat" fo
Officer Frank Palestro, the latest cop to call foul on corruption in the NYPD, has gotten serious flak from his fellow police and the union, though he maintains he was just doing his duty. The union delegate and nine-year police veteran... Read more
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Marblehead officer suspended i
Police Sgt. Marion Keating was handed a 50-day suspension without pay last night by a unanimous Board of Selectmen.
Keating was unsmiling after the board agreed to follow a recommendation by Town Administrator Tony Sasso. Her lawyer, Stephen Pfaff, vowed to... Read more
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Exposing The Corruption Of New
The Internal Affairs Division has allegedly refused to investigate citizen complaints, and the complaints they claim to investigate are allegedly not thoroughly investigated. How can the residents of Newark have confidence that complaints they file against police officers for brutality and... Read more
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Russia: Police Struggle With B
Having studied foreign literature and worked as a schoolteacher, Yekaterina made a drastic career change four years ago: She became a cop.
Inspired by her brother, a Moscow homicide detective, she was full of idealism when she joined the force.
"I came here... Read more
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UK: Serious and Organised Crim
The Serious and Organised Crime Agency is assessing the scale of corruption within the British police after concerns were raised by senior internal investigators, the Guardian can reveal.
Anti-corruption officers are worried that today's police are more vulnerable to being targeted by... Read more
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Slap for police chief by over
VICTORIA'S police watchdog has rebuked Chief Commissioner Simon Overland for failing to act on ''overwhelming'' evidence that Paul Mullett bullied some of his former police association colleagues more than four years ago.
Last November Office of Police Integrity chief Michael Strong wrote... Read more
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Office of Police Integrity set
THE police corruption watchdog is set to probe a serving detective-sergeant over his ownership of a house used to grow marijuana and his links to murdered gangland patriarch Lewis Moran.
Office of Police Integrity investigators are expected to examine the detective's... Read more
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Vigilance is needed to maintai
SEX, drugs, nightclubs and allegations of misbehaving police - The Courier Mail's recent revelations conjure a sense of deja vu for anyone who recalls Queensland in the pre-Fitzgerald 1980s.
Then the focus was on Fortitude Valley. Now "sin city" has shifted to... Read more
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Serving Victoria police office
A SERVING Victoria Police officer is being investigated for allegedly "green-lighting" a massive armed robbery.
The member, whom the Herald Sun has chosen not to name, is the subject of a cold case corruption probe into the multi-million dollar theft.
The Office... Read more
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Australia: Real leadership mea
Two complex and intriguing issues have unintentionally revealed how the Brumby government responds when uncomfortable truths are exposed. The first is the Office of Police Integrity (OPI), set up to investigate police corruption. The second is violence against Indians in Melbourne.... Read more
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Assistant police chief suspend
An assistant Greensboro police chief was suspended from duty for three weeks on Friday by City Manager Rashad Young.
Assistant Chief Ron Rogers, 49, who heads the department’s investigative bureau, has been suspended for 21 days, his attorney Ken Free Jr.... Read more
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Officer claims raw deal
Officer Randall Price understands why many police departments wouldn't hire him. After cycling through eight jobs in 11 years, his work history is marred by multiple firings, allegations of misconduct and brutality claims.
On paper, Price appears to be the quintessential... Read more
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Russia: Policemen Detained in
Two police officers were detained outside a bank in central Moscow as they were preparing to carry out an armed robbery, investigators said.
The officers and two suspected accomplices were detained outside a VTB branch on Bolshaya Tatarskaya Ulitsa on Wednesday as... Read more
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USA: Riverside police chief re
Riverside Police Chief Russ Leach stepped down Thursday just three days after he crashed a city-owned car under circumstances that have raised questions about his behavior and his department's response.
City Manager Bradley Hudson said Leach's retirement for "medical reasons" was effective... Read more
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San Francisco police disciplin
San Francisco's system of disciplining police is built to fail. The rules invite delays by accused officers and their union, saddle the part-time Police Commission with extra duties, and undercut efficient management of the 2,000-member force.
As a Chronicle news story... Read more
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Saudi religious police bar sal
The Saudi religious police have begun cracking down on stores selling any items that are red, heart-shaped or otherwise allude to the banned celebration of Valentine's Day, the Associated Press reports.
The AP, in a dispatch from Riyadh that quotes a Saudi... Read more
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Secret report recommends drug
A previously secret report by Queensland's corruption watchdog recommends improved ethics education, possible random drug testing of all police and swifter disciplinary action.
Police Minister Neil Roberts today tabled in Parliament a summary of recommendations from a Crime and Misconduct Commission... Read more
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UK: Metropolitan Police 'still
The Met remains "without doubt" institutionally racist, the chairman of the Metropolitan Black Police Association (MBPA) has said.
Alfred John was speaking after Met Commander Ali Dizaei was jailed for four years for corruption.
Dizaei had earlier claimed he was the victim... Read more
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Almost 20 traffic police held
A total of 19 traffic police officers have been arrested on bribery charges in Russia's southern city of Astrakhan, investigators said on Monday.
"The 19 suspects were arrested red-handed," a statement said, adding that the unit's commander was among those arrested in... Read more
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UK: Four years in jail for top
Britain's highest-ranking Asian police officer was jailed for four years yesterday after being convicted of falsely arresting a man and then inventing a claim of assault against him.
After a month-long trial, it took a jury just two hours to convict... Read more
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Australia: Ex-cop admits misco
Disgraced former NSW police officer Adam Purcell has admitted tipping off the media and a state MP about a serial sex offender then lying about it to his superior officers.
He has admitted to telling a journalist he was not concerned about... Read more
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Australia: Gold Coast police c
Explosive new claims have emerged about the behaviour of Gold Coast police.
Some off-duty officers have been accused of accepting freebies on the Surfers Paradise nightclub circuit, and threatening to shut down a club when the favours were stopped.
QLD Police Commissioner Bob... Read more
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NATO arrests Afghan police off
The man helped make and plant roadside bombs in Kapisa province, Western officials say. But local authorities say it could be a case of mistaken identity.
NATO forces swooped down on the home of a senior Afghan police official, arrested him and... Read more
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UK: Secret cops op revealed on
Corruption was so rife in Nottinghamshire Police that senior officers set up secret cells to fight it, an inquest was told yesterday.
A senior officer, identified only as Officer D, said a "totally covert" operation called Starburst used police from other forces.
They... Read more
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Colombia; Police to combat cor
The Colombian police force will require officers to submit to polygraph tests in a bid to combat links developing between police and members of emerging criminal groups.
The planned measure is a response to NGO Human Rights Watch's (HRW) concerns that the... Read more
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CMC asked to probe alleged pol
POLICE crash tackled, kneed and punched an Aboriginal man with excessive force before falsely charging him and trying to cover it up, a judge ruled.
The Crime and Misconduct Commission have been asked to investigate alleged police misconduct and brutality in Cape... Read more
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Calls for change after trial s
The trial of a gang member who killed a Revere police officer ended yesterday, when a Suffolk Superior Court judge sentenced him to life in prison. But the deeper issues that the case exposed - of drunken police officers exchanging gunfire... Read more
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CMC won't release report into
The Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) says it will not publicly release a confidential 2008 report into Queensland Police Service (QPS) officer misconduct on the Gold Coast.
Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson yesterday confirmed the QPS received a report from the CMC... Read more
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Canada: Mounties will no longe
The Mounties will cease investigating their own in cases of police-involved death or serious injury, RCMP Commissioner William Elliott has announced.
Civilian oversight bodies, where they exist, will be called in to look at what went wrong and whether to press charges.... Read more
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Stop corruption before it star
QUEENSLAND Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson responded to news police stations were raided and officers interrogated in an investigation into Gold Coast drug crime by saying the region "has been an area of concern for more than 10 years". So why didn't... Read more
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ACLU: Miami Beach cops arrest
'We're sick of all the f***ing fags in the neighborhood,' cops allegedly told gay man
Miami Beach has long had a reputation for being a refuge for gay Americans, but if the ACLU's allegations against the city prove true, people in the... Read more
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Watchdog slams police failure
VICTORIA Police's failure to fix known and ''significant information security risks'' contributed to the leak of police surveillance files to underworld bosses and suspected gangland killers, according to a report by the state's police watchdog.
The Office of Police Integrity's inquiry into... Read more
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UK: Police corruption probe ov
A JURY must decide whether police corruption played a part in the deaths of a couple murdered in their Trusthorpe home, an inquest heard.
As reported, John and Joan Stirland were found shot dead at their bungalow near Mablethorpe, on August 8,... Read more
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Indianapolis officer accused o
An Indianapolis police officer faces a charge of sexual misconduct after a woman accused him of raping her while he was on duty.
Thirty-three-year-old Courtney Harris was being held on $50,000 bond Tuesday in the Marion County Jail following his weekend... Read more
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Officer’s Testimony Supports A
At first, Officer Kevin Maloney kept it all to himself.
During an arrest in a Brooklyn subway station on Oct. 15, 2008, he watched a fellow officer jab a baton between the buttocks of a suspect, and he thought he heard the... Read more
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Pa. officers accused of beatin
The city of Pittsburgh has suspended three white police officers while officials investigate accusations that they beat up a black teenage arts student who was walking to his grandmother's house after dark, the mayor said Monday.
The city agency that handles... Read more
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Australia: Claim police too cl
THE suspension of a Gold Coast police officer is believed to be linked to Crime and Misconduct Commission concerns that some officers have become 'too close' to the Surfers Paradise nightclub and drug scene.
A 27-year-old constable was suspended from duty yesterday... Read more
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Former China police chief on t
A former police chief went on trial Tuesday on charges that he accepted bribes from gangs he protected for years in a southwestern China megacity with a long corruption history, state media reported.
Prosecutors at the Chongqing No. 5 Intermediate People's... Read more
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Australia: Ex Vic top cop deni
Former Victorian assistant police commissioner Noel Ashby has formally pleaded not guilty to 11 perjury charges.
Ashby, 53, entered the pleas during a hearing at the Victorian Supreme Court on Monday.
The charges allege he lied under oath while giving answers to hearings... Read more
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