Tag Archives : police

About 300 federal police in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, arrested on Sunday their own leaders, accused of extortion and protection to organized crime groups. Agents raided the hotel where they were staying four Mexican federal police commanders. The heads were removed by force and violence. The federal police accused his commanders to stop policing the city [...]

A woman of 39 years spent more than five hours strapped to her bed after being assaulted and only managed to escape to seek help from the boyfriend through an instant messaging program. Detail: She had to type everything with her feet. According to the newspaper Atlanta Journal Constitution, Amy Windom’s house, who lives in Atlanta (USA), was raided [...]

Police, intelligence agencies and other public English organs asked more than 500 thousand accesses to confidential and personal information in 2008. That is equal to spy one in each 78 people in the whole United Kingdom. There were 1500 daily requests, totaling 504.073 requests for approval to access private e-mail and phone data. That number represents [...]

Iran’s police tried to disperse crowds from a graveyard in Central Tehran where hundreds of mourners had gathered to hold special 40 day “arbayeen” ceremony for Neda. Young Neda lost her life to a bullet during the anti election result protest which rocked Iran after June 12 election results. Opposition leader Mousavi was not allowed to enter [...]

Islamist groups launched new attacks against security forces in northern Nigeria, a day after nearly 40 people died in bloody clashes between police and a radical Islamic group in Bauchi. The BBC also reported a tally of ‘100 bodies, mostly of militants, near the police headquarters in Maiduguri, Borno State, where hundreds are fleeing their homes.’ [...]

First, be a top Mexican drug lord, then aim to be the ‘Godfather of Mexican Cocaine,’ next write down your experience, then hope that your writings get into the hands of an investigative journalist. Miguel Angel Félix Gallardo did just those. His writings, portions of which were passed to investigative journalist Diego Osorno and published this [...]

Imagine your privacy is being intruded upon constantly by police without any permission from anywhere. Come Monday and a court ruling in Wisconsin is going to come up with their final decision on whether or not police should be allowed to track your movements with a GPS device without a warrant. If this unprecedented law comes into practice then, the [...]

Egyptian farmers tried to prevent the slaughtering of their pigs for reasons of preventing the spread of the Influenza A (H1N1) virus, formerly known as swine flu, resulting in clashes with the police in a slum area in Cairo. Pig farmers threw stones and bottles at police officers who came to their farms along with health officials. The police responded [...]

The AXON™ by Taser allows the police to make sure the evidence is not tampered with when they need to submit evidence or argue in their own defense. Most of the times, cops have to bear questions regarding their integrity and right of action. This can be proved with the right video that has not been tampered with. It is designed to seamlessly integrate [...]

A suicide bombing claimed by the Taliban, in a training center for police in the town of Tirin Kot in Uruzgan province in southern Afghanistan, claimed the lives of 25 law enforcement officers, including 5 senior officials. It is the bloodiest terrorist attack committed by the insurgency in Afghanistan so far this year in a country where, in the last [...]