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Egyptian woman tells TV of alleged police rape
CAIRO — An Egyptian woman, wearing an all-encompassing black veil, has gone public with a rare television interview alleging that police raped her after she stopped to ask for directions in a rural part of the country.
The allegations add fodder to a growing debate in Egypt about police abuse, which human... Read more
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South Africa's former police chief Jackie Selebi sentenced
The fall from grace of South Africa's former police chief was complete today when Jackie Selebi was sentenced to 15 years in jail for corruption.
A veteran of the struggle against apartheid, who rose to become the president of Interpol, Selebi is now contemplating old age behind bars. But he remains free... Read more
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Drug Conviction Overturned Due To Tulsa Police Corruption Case
The corruption investigation into the Tulsa Police Department prompted a Tulsa County judge to dismiss another case Tuesday.
Parra Nishimoto, 25, was arrested in December of 2007 after officers served a search warrant and said they found three large bags of methamphetamine on top of the freezer in his apartment.
But in a... Read more
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Investigation Completed into Corruption in Greece Police Department
GREECE, NY: The head investigator into corruption in the Greece Police Department announced "mission accomplished" Friday afternoon.
Former Deputy State Police Superintendent Joseph Loszynski was hired to look into accusations of wrongdoing in the department.
Loszynski released his final report Friday and said he referred several cases to the DA's office for prosecution.... Read more
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Ramsey vows to weed out bad officers from Philadelphia police
In the aftermath of the Philadelphia Police Department's latest scandal - the arrest of a 26-year veteran on charges of stealing cash from a bar - few would argue with Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey's announcement Friday that the department needs to find a way to weed out corrupt officers.
Ramsey's... Read more
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What makes good cops go bad?
PROVIDENCE—The arrests of three Providence police officers on drug charges raise an important question.
What makes a good cop go bad?
Treat Williams plays a dirty cop in the movie “The Prince of the City.“ The film is based on the real life story of former NYPD narcotics officer Bob Leuci, whose nickname... Read more
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Tulsa PD Officer: "I'm Innocen
A Tulsa Police officer who says he’s at the center of a police corruption investigation, gives his side of the story. Officer Jeff Henderson is now on leave of absence from the department as a result of an ongoing grand jury investigation into allegations that Tulsa Police officers fabricated drug deals.... Read more
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Toronto police corruption case
TORONTO — One of the largest-ever police corruption cases in Canada can go ahead after the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a lower-court ruling.
Last fall the Ontario Court of Appeal ordered the case against five Toronto police officers to trial after years of delays. The country's top court... Read more
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Former Tulsa agent accused of
Brandon J. McFadden, 33, a former agent with the Tulsa office of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, was booked into the jail Thursday on a hold for U.S. marshals, jail records show.
McFadden pleaded not guilty during a hearing at 2 p.m. today in federal court to... Read more
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New Zealand: Police officers w
The country's 8654 sworn police officers have been warned to beware of becoming corrupted with the growth of organised criminal gangs.
Police Association president Greg O'Connor said today there would always be wayward police officers who committed crimes but there was no evidence yet of widespread corruption where police and gangs worked... Read more
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Two Officers Arrested in Conne
Westminster Police Officer Anthony Nicholas Orban swore to protect his community and defend the rights of citizens, but he allegedly failed to uphold that oath. He is accused of abducting a 24-year-old woman from a mall parking lot in Ontario, Calif., forcing her to drive to a commercial complex in Fontana,... Read more
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Police corruption threatens NJ
Josephine Skinner said her grandson Dequan was 11 or 12 years old he had a run-in with a police officer who neighbors claimed terrorized them for years.
As the youth crossed the street to buy a soda at a store, Josephine Skinner said Officer Jason Stetser — known as “Fat Face” —... Read more
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Danziger Bridge case suggests
When an investigator needed an identity for a fabricated witness in the Danziger Bridge police shooting, prosecutors say, he looked to his fellow officers for help.
"Hey, somebody give me a name!" the veteran NOPD supervisor allegedly called out to a group of officers. Another cop, former New Orleans police detective Jeffrey... Read more
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Australia: Dirty Work exposes
A DETECTIVE who went undercover to gather evidence against the crooked cops he worked alongside has told the stunning story of his time in the police force.
Glen McNamara’s book, Dirty Work, is representative of a growing trend of true crime novels based in Kings Cross.
While working as a detective... Read more
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In Russia, police solve crimes
Russian police officers are party to corruption, rape and murder. President Medvedev has now announced he will purge their ranks. But will it be enough?
At 31 years of age, Sasja is a very young retiree. A year ago, he was relieved to trade in his smart uniform for a comfortable... Read more
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Drug arrests latest black mark
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — After three Providence police officers were arrested last week in a cocaine-peddling sting, Chief Dean Esserman called it a "hard day" for the department.
The department has endured its share of hard days in recent years despite Esserman's vows in 2003 to reform the conduct of a department marred... Read more
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Clayton Officers Fired Amid Se
CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. -- Channel 2 Action News investigative reporter Mark Winne has obtained a letter from Clayton County Police Chief Tim Robinson detailing shocking allegations of inappropriate conduct from four officers.
The officers are accused of not reporting corruption, supplying drugs at illegal sex parties and even having sex on the... Read more
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Russian police whistleblower t
A Russian police officer who posted online video messages urging a nationwide crackdown on police corruption will be released from custody within hours, investigators said on Sunday.
Police Major Alexei Dymovsky from the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk in Russia's southern Krasnodar Territory hit the headlines across Russia last September after he... Read more
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Another unprofessional exhibit
How many Nigerians will remain on earth before the Vision 2020 is actualized if perhaps everyday two Nigerians are killed and many others wounded by police strays bullets? What do the Nigeria police officers learn in their police college? These and many more questions kept on resounding in my mind as... Read more
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Former BH Cop Sentenced In Cor
A former Benton Harbor police officer was sentenced in a corruption case this week. Bernard Hall was at one time the head of the department's narcotics unit, and was indicted with testimony from another former officer, Andrew Collins. In 2008, Collins was arrested for staging phony drug buys, stealing evidence, and... Read more
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Son of Ex-Policeman Says He's
Vasily Astrashabov, a 19-year-old Moscow student, met with friends to go to a movie theater on New Year's Day but caught the eye of police officers seeking the attackers of a married Kyrgyz couple.
Astrashabov was detained, and the Kyrgyz wife identified him as one of the attackers. The husband, who was... Read more
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Guatemala: Two Top Police Offi
Guatemalan authorities arrested the country’s national police chief and the head of its antinarcotics unit on Tuesday on drug charges.
It was the second time in six months that a national police chief has been linked to drug trafficking.
Baltazar Gómez, the police chief, and Nelly Bonilla, the drug official, were... 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 Tounsi, including a security chief for the Algiers region, a... Read more
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3 Memphis Cops Arrested in FBI
Three Memphis cops were busted by the FBI on Friday, February 26, 2010, in a police corruption case that angered MPD Director Larry Godwin.
Three of his officers, including a veteran of the force, are charged with taking thousands of dollars in bribes from a local nightclub owner in exchange for information... 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 was outed after secretly reporting Lt. Susana Seda for behavior... 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 other acts of misconduct will be properly and thoroughly investigated?... 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 to fight for justice," Yekaterina, 26, said in a recent... 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 criminals and abusing their powers than their predecessors in the... 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 to Mr Overland to raise concerns about his handling of... 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 ownership of at least six houses, including one in country... Read more
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