Foreign Policing News

At least 7,500 police officers demonstrated outside France’s justice ministry Wednesday protesting a lack of resources and what they say is insufficient support from the judiciary in their daily law enforcement work. The protest was billed as the broadest showing of discontent within the police since 1983, when then Justice Minister Robert Badinter faced similar protests and accusations of laxity after gangsters killed two policemen. This time, too, the discontent came to a head a week after a prisoner who was granted a brief out-of-jail permit seriously wounded a policeman in a shootout in Seine-Saint-Denis on the northern edge of Paris. “There’s real anger here,” sai…

Police chiefs say that the new semi-automatic firearms are designed to be used in densely-populated areas. Police in one Belgian city are now being armed with paintball guns. Rapid response units in Antwerp are being handed the non-lethal weapons, familiar to stag doers and wannabe warriors across the world. Police chiefs say that the new semi-automatic firearms are designed to be used in densely-populated areas. They can also fire pepper spray missiles. And police bosses hope that they will help neutralise dangerous suspects without actually killing them. So far, some four FN 303s have been ordered by the city’s fast deployment teams. The special units, which use …

I downloaded a film on iTunes called Cartel Land not realising that it was actually a documentary. Anyhow, it was an interesting watch. Basically, a frustrated Dr sets up a 'movement' called the Autodefensas (aka a vigilante group) to take on the infamous Knights Templar cartel. The movement spread on a town by town basis and took up arms against the cartel members. Concerned by the movement, the Government swears them in as a Rural Defence Force, which is kind of Mexican 'special constabulary' with a bit of naughtiness chucked in. Needless to say, there isn't really a happy ending and there are a few twists. Worth watching if gritty true crime stuff interests you. …

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A group of Bermuda police officers trained alongside Regiment soldiers in North Carolina. The six firearms officers joined the troops at the US Marines’ Camp Lejuene to take advantage of state-of-the-art training facilities — including a high-tech live firing house and outdoor firing ranges far longer than are available in Bermuda. The house features live fire rooms spread over three storeys and moveable targets for officers training on room-to-room clearance of buildings. Bermuda Police Service firearms training officer Pc Brian MacNab said: “This is not something we can do back home — we can simulate it, but we don’t have the facilities for live firing, so the …