Foreign Policing News

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This is the moment a British police officer jumped into action and saved an American cop from being attacked while holidaying in Nashville. https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15820799/Moment-hero-British-police-officer-saves-US-cop-attacked-holiday-Nashville.html When Police Sergeant Taylor Johanson, of Kent Police in seeing the incident, Johanson rushed in to assist the arrest shows never off duty.👏

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/19/fbi-buying-location-data-use Kash Patel’s disclosure Wednesday that the FBI has resumed buying location data on Americans has many people, including members of Congress, wondering: how does private information get into the hands of the US government in the first place – and how can federal law enforcement use that information to track peoples’ whereabouts? It's funny isn't it, people will say they don't want the government tracking their location. But they will quite happily install dozens of apps that track it, with no regard for where that data will eventually end up. Now from what I understand, in Americ…

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https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366617630/German-court-finds-hacked-EncroChat-phone-evidence-inadmissible A Berlin court has raised questions over whether data from 120 million messages obtained by police hacking an encrypted phone service can continue to be lawfully used as evidence in prosecutions in Germany and other European countries. Would this have any effect on Encro related cases in the UK? Something I've noticed is we don't seem to be as strict on what is admissible compared to other countries. America has fruit of the poisonous tree rule, which means any evidence obtained illegally is inadmissible. Even if the evidence itself is sound, even i…

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/07/ios-18-forcing-reboots-law-enforcement/ iPhones that are undergoing examination have apparently been rebooting, which makes them harder to unlock with brute force methods, and Michigan police think that it's due to a security feature that Apple added in iOS 18. Leave the phone connected and risk the suspect remote wiping it, or pop it in a faraday bag and have it go into BFU when it can't get a signal, in a jurisdiction that doesn't have an equivalent to our S.49 power to demand passcodes. This could be a bit of a problem for digital forensics in America, assuming this is actually a feature now and not just a coincidence wher…

Police and emergency services raced to the seen after a man allegedly went on a stabbing spree in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1940218/sydney-stabbings-injured-people-police-update

I've noticed a lot of foreign police in Paris assisting the French during the Games, including British, Spanish, German, Hong Kong, Greek. But the British cops are the only ones unarmed, eveybody else has their firearms on them. Seems a bit dangerous for them?

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/french-prison-officers-reported-killed-as-inmate-escapes-van Elite French police are searching for gunmen who attacked a prison van in Normandy, killing at least two prison officers and freeing the high-security inmate being transported.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/cops-can-force-suspect-to-unlock-phone-with-thumbprint-us-court-rules/ The US Constitution's Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination does not prohibit police officers from forcing a suspect to unlock a phone with a thumbprint scan, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. Interesting to see an American court make this decision as they often rule the other way when it comes to passcodes and passwords. They don't have anything similar to s49 RIPA as it has been found to violate a suspects fifth amendment rights, but it seems that doesn't apply when the passcode is just your fingerprint. What's really…

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/12/24098364/the-nypd-tried-to-use-a-warrantless-subpoena-for-a-watchdogs-x-account The NYPD sent a subpoena to Twitter asking for data on a user, and ordering them not to alert the user about that fact. Twitter did so anyway, and recommended the person hire a lawyer, and published the subpoena. Would Twitter have committed any offences by doing this if they were in the UK, and would it make it any difference legally if they were publishing an actual warrant from a court compared to something like a production order from a force? I know that Signal also publishes every subpoena they get on their website, but they are also American…

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/human-rights-court-takes-stand-against-weakening-of-end-to-end-encryption/ Careful review confirmed that the government's legitimate interest, the UN reported, is outweighed by society's rights to privacy, as well as freedom of expression that could be chilled if encryption was weakened or if messaging services chose to alter or withdraw encryption in regions requiring disclosures.