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Reports due on NSW police 'cor
Potentially explosive police corruption reports centred on two senior NSW investigators will be tabled in the state parliament on Wednesday.
The two unrelated Police Integrity Commission (PIC) reports examine the conduct of Homicide Squad Detective Paul Jacob and Sydney Superintendent Adam Purcell.
NSW... Read more
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Police brutality cases on rise
Federal prosecutors are targeting a rising number of law enforcement officers for alleged brutality, Justice Department statistics show. The heightened prosecutions come as the nation's largest police union fears that agencies are dropping standards to fill thousands of vacancies and "scrimping"... Read more
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FBI probing Sleepy Hollow poli
SLEEPY HOLLOW - The FBI has launched an investigation into alleged brutality and misconduct by the Sleepy Hollow Police Department, prompted by cases in which officers tasered a 16-year-old boy and allegedly beat up and tasered another person who accused a... Read more
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Racial profiling real!
Fear of police is a recent phenomenon for Kevin Wilson.
Until last December, the 38-year-old black man who lives in Fresno and owns a barber shop in the Third Ward, didn't tense up at the sound of a siren. The native Houstonian,... Read more
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Mickelberg case prompts call f
A criminologist has called for Western Australia Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan to have more powers to deal with under-performing senior officers.
The call by criminologist David Indermaur comes after a public apology by Commissioner O'Callaghan to the Mickelberg brothers yesterday... Read more
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Police guard their law breache
POLICE are being accused of "excessive secrecy" for taking a year to release sparse details of individual cases of serious misconduct by officers.
Details of the 29 officers' cases, proved before the Police Disciplinary Tribunal, are contained in a written response to... Read more
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Changes to Independent Police
Cabinet approves changes to Independent Police Conduct Authority
Six proposals to further enhance the independence and effectiveness of the Independent Police Conduct Authority were announced by Associate Justice Minister, Rick Barker today.
“The proposals, now agreed to by Cabinet, will provide a... Read more
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Accident probe is under scruti
Can the Illinois State Police properly investigate itself?
That continues to be a hot subject, based on e-mails and phone calls to the News-Democrat since the Nov. 23 accident on Interstate 64 involving a state trooper that killed two teenage Collinsville sisters... Read more
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Break the silence - Police sho
The police need to break their silence too! That is the view of Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Mark Shields who believes the police must lead by example.
The former Scotland Yard Detective tells The Sunday Gleaner that it would be hypocritical... Read more
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Cloud hangs over Minneapolis p
Is the Minneapolis Police Department a bastion of racial bias and discrimination? Or is city law enforcement a model for equitable hiring and promotion practices?
Strong feelings persist on both questions. The department has long faced allegations that it does not treat... Read more
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Canadian Study Says Police Sho
Canada's national police force should become independent from the federal government, the National Post reports, citing conclusions of a task force.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police should become ```a separate entity with separate employer status'' to allow the force to manage... Read more
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South Africa: Cop shoots himse
A Durban police officer shot himself on Thursday after being arrested on corruption charges, police said on Friday.
Police spokesperson Superintendent Vincent Mdunge said the officer - a detective from the Durban Central police station - was in a critical condition in... Read more
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Dallas officers asked some to
Dallas police investigators have concluded that two officers made homeless people, prostitutes and other habitual violators sign blank citations so that the officers could fill out the tickets later with whatever offenses they chose.
One of the two officers, Senior Cpl. Timothy... Read more
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Investigation Into Possible Po
Two police departments are continuing their investigation into possible misconduct after a Colchester police officer allegedly drove home a Burlington police officer who had been pulled over under suspicion of drunk driving. As the investigations continue, so does talk among the... Read more
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‘Bribe started with cops’
After days of silence, lawyer Gines Abellana yesterday spoke out about a P50,000 payoff made to police to get his client off the hook.
“They instigated it,” he said of the bribery attempt.
He accused Supt. Marvin Sanchez and two other police officers... Read more
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Police Officer Arrested, Accus
A Daytona Beach police officer was arrested on Friday afternoon.
Officer Bobby Rush, 29, has been with the Daytona Beach Police Department for five years and a member of the Crime Suppression Team.
Officials said that in recent weeks members of Rush’s team... Read more
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Former police officer jailed f
A FORMER NSW and National Crime Authority police officer was jailed until 2012 yesterday for his role in drug rip-offs and a drug-addled shopping spree using false credit cards while on bail.
Samuel John Foster, 43, may serve his non-parole period of... Read more
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Six Elkhart officers disciplin
Six Elkhart Police officers have been disciplined for their roles in an incident at the police station. The incident happened Thanksgiving morning.
Investigators say a woman was engaged in inappropriate behavior and an Elkhart Public Safety Officer joined in. The city... Read more
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New Zealand: Watchdog to inves
Complaints over the October anti-terror raids will be investigated by the Independent Police Conduct Authority, the watchdog said today.
The authority confirmed police had sent it a complaint from lawyer Peter Williams QC, acting for Te Kotahi o Tuhoe - which speaks... Read more
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Local cops react to the Peters
A corrupt cop is every honest cop's worst nightmare.
"Any cop who screws up, it embarrasses all of us," Bradley Police Chief Don Kufner said.
"You're painted with the same brush," echoed Bradley Deputy Chief Steve Coy.
"We're judged by one," said Chief Deputy... Read more
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State Attorney unveils unit to
The Cook County state's attorney's office announced Thursday that it had established a special unit to review police shootings and other allegations of excessive force by officers, hoping to plug gaps in how prosecutors uncover and evaluate misconduct by police.
Acknowledging his... Read more
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Corrupt ex-cop likely to stay
A corrupt former NSW police officer involved in staging fake drug busts is likely to serve his minimum five-and-a-half year jail term in protective custody, after threats from other prisoners.
Samuel Foster, 43, pleaded guilty to a string of drug, armed robbery,... Read more
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Malaysia: Police Complaints Co
KUALA LUMPUR: The proposed Special Complaints Commission was not what the 2005 royal commission into the police had asked for, Tun Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah said.
A "very disappointed" Dzaiddin, who was the chairman of the royal commission, said the proposed Special... Read more
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Report on RCMP Set to be Relea
A review of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police touches on everything from funding to discipline, ethics, training and oversight.
In a letter to Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day, Toronto lawyer David Brown says "we identify fundamental issues and make clear, and... Read more
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UK: Police officers to face ch
A FORMER police officer and serious crimes officer from the North East have been charged with misconduct, after an investigation into a gangland shooting
Former Northumbria Police detective John Jones, 47, and Colin Maddison, 47, an agent for the Serious Organised Crime... Read more
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Jailed cop is single mother wi
CEBU CITY, Philippines – A policewoman arrested on Monday during an entrapment operation for a P50,000 bribery attempt is a single mother with two children.
Police Officer 1 (PO1) Blair Quezon, 28, was detained Tuesday at the Cebu City Police Office after... Read more
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Vietnam's graft-busting grandm
When Vietnamese grandmother Le Hien Duc gets flowers, they are often funeral wreaths dropped outside her Hanoi home as death threats for her dogged battle against corruption.
In a country where graft and bribery are unsavoury facts of everyday life, the 75-year-old... Read more
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Corrupt cop repaired some dama
Corrupt former crime commission officer Samuel Foster had done much to repair some of the damage he had done, his lawyer says.
In sentencing submissions in the NSW District Court on Thursday, Ben Clark said probably the most significant matter was Foster's... Read more
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Corrupt BPD cop sentenced to 1
The first of three bad-egg Boston cops to plead guilty to drug charges will spend the next 13 years in federal prison for betraying his badge and brethren.
Carlos Pizarro, a married 38-year-old father of two children ages 10 and 6, apologized... Read more
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Bad Cops in the ’Hood
Study documents tolerance for rogue officers in Black, Latino neighborhoods
While residents in Black and Latino neighborhoods may have already accepted this as a reality, a new report documents a troubling tendency by law enforcement agencies to ignore cases of officers... Read more
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Corrupt cop gets four years
Johannesburg - A Heidelberg policeman, charged with corruption, has been sentenced to four years in prison, police said on Wednesday.
The 42-year-old sergeant was convicted of soliciting money from a man along the R549 on October 3 2006.
"It is believed... Read more
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Graft study: 30 percent of Ukr
Thirty percent of Ukrainians admitted to paying a bribe last year placing the country among the top 25 countries most affected by bribery.
The findings, released Dec. 6, were presented in the 2007 Global Corruption Barometer (GCB), a compilation of public opinion... Read more
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Gangster cops - Montego Bay po
Superintendent of Police Steve McGreggor says it would be foolhardy for Jamaicans to believe that some members of the St. James police are not involved in criminal activities.
"It would be foolhardy to think that there won't be some police who... Read more
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Canada: Bribe Taking Photo Cop
An Edmonton, Canada police officer who until last month faced criminal charges for taking illegal gifts from a company seeking to land a lucrative photo enforcement contract today received a "top cop" award from the Kiwanis Club of Edmonton. Staff Sergeant... Read more
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New RCMP watchdog needed, MPs
A Commons committee has called for creation of an accountability board to keep an eye on the RCMP, saying the force suffers from "serious management and administrative shortcomings."
It also urges the House of Commons to denounce a lack of leadership shown... Read more
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Police blamed for overdoses at
DRUG counsellors have blamed police for causing overdoses at a weekend rave held at a castle in a medieval theme park.
Users swallowed their drug stashes rather than risk arrest by police patrolling the event in the regional Victorian town Ballarat with... Read more
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Former Prescott police officer
A former Prescott police officer has been charged with misconduct becoming a police officer by falsifying a police report.
Brad Woletz, 37, River Falls, has been accused of the crime stemming from an incident this past March which led to his termination... Read more
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Documents Detail Police Miscon
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. -- Police have released more information regarding the investigation of sexual misconduct and harassment inside the East Hartford Police Department.
The investigation led to the demotion of the highest ranking female officer east of the Connecticut River.
The documents were... Read more
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Chicago's deadliest gang
THE CITY of Chicago may have finally agreed to pay $20 million to four men who were tortured by police and wrongly sent to spend more than a decade each on death row. But that doesn't mean the Chicago Police Department... Read more
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Police officer charged
A veteran city police officer has been charged with an impaired driving offence stemming from last summer, but the senior officer who faced allegations of initially trying to prevent the arrest will not be going to court.
Following a review of the... Read more
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Turkey investigates alleged ti
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey has launched an investigation into alleged collusion between police officers and at least one of the suspects charged with killing three Christians earlier this year at a publishing house that produces Bibles, an official said Saturday.
Two senior... Read more
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Poor in Rio say police are as
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Although he knew the risks he was running, Jorge da Silva Siqueira Neto, a father of six, refused to keep his mouth shut when police officers from a nearby battalion overran the slum where he lived... Read more
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Malaysian woman sues police fo
A Malaysian housewife is suing the police for one million ringgit (US$300,300; €205,000) for allegedly beating up her son and causing his death while in custody, her lawyer said Monday.
Mohamad Rizal Sulaiman, 19, was detained March 31 in northern Kedah state... Read more
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Nigerian police a threat to pu
Nigerian police are a danger to public safety because they consider extra-judicial killings an acceptable policing method and raping women as a fringe benefit, a report by a Nigerian civil rights group said.
The Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN) said... Read more
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Chicago cop found guilty of as
A Chicago police sergeant was convicted Monday of raping a woman while on duty after a judge found his testimony that the sex was consensual was "nothing short of perjury."
Cook County Circuit Judge Joseph Claps also said he did not believe... Read more
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Marshalltown police accused of
A former resident is accusing some officers in the Marshalltown Police Department of misconduct during the course of his arrest last month.
Joe Leavy, presently of Ankeny, said that he was unnecessarily treated roughly when police arrested him on an outstanding warrant... Read more
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Buffalo Police Department Inve
The Buffalo Police Department is investigating one of its own.
The Department tells 2 On Your Side a 19-year-old University at Buffalo student says 37-year-old Officer Monte Montalvo forcibly performed a sex act on her. The officer was not on duty when... Read more
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Judge: City liable for cop tra
A federal judge's ruling has cleared the way for a jury to be able to find that Denver failed to train its police officers on decisional shooting and use-of-force policy and failed to discipline officers for using excessive force.
U.S. District... Read more
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Authority praises inquiry into
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has praised the police investigation into allegations of sexual offending by former assistant commissioner Clint Rickards and other officers.
The authority says Operation Austin was of a high standard for a criminal investigation of its scale that... Read more
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Australia: Tapped calls put sp
SENIOR police may be forced to review discipline cases stretching back nine years following revelations of attempted backroom deals that may have compromised the internal justice system.
The cases under question are those heard by assistant commissioner Noel Ashby, who resigned last... Read more
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