Foreign Policing News

NEW YORK (AP) — For all its 147 years, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has been more than an advocacy group; it has served as the primary law enforcement agency for animal abuse and neglect in New York City. That role, the first of its kind in the nation, led to a squad of uniformed agents who flashed badges, carried guns, made arrests, traveled in blue-and-white squad cars and, for years, starred in an Animal Planet reality TV show, "Animal Precinct." But now, that unit is losing its bite. In December, the ASPCA laid off most of its 17 remaining law enforcement agents. Their responsibilities will be left to the New York Police Department. …

A very unfortunate incident but what was a uni cop doing a traffic stop anyway? And the road, Wolf Ledges Parkway, is not on uni campus I dont think? Compared to this news there's not even an inquest?

A San Francisco public transit officer has been shot dead by a fellow officer while looking for stolen property. Investigators are trying to determine whether an officer's weapon discharged accidentally, or if Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Sergeant Tom Smith was mistaken for someone else. Sgt Smith was taken to Eden Medical centre in Castro Valley, where he died. He was the first on-duty fatality in the 42-year history of BART police, authorities said. BART Police Chief Kenton Rainey said there were seven BART officers and a sheriff's deputy at the scene when the shooting occurred. The team had launched a search as part of an investigation into the theft of …

Is that what they call 'Customer Service' :new_doh2:

Fearing for his life and the lives of bystanders, an exhausted Constable Michael Cairns broke with his training and fired low in one last attempt to stop an attacker who was, he told a jury, a "steam locomotive out of control, there was no stopping him." "I didn't want to kill him," Cairns told the Burlington inquest Wednesday morning. "I dropped my sights and shot him in the stomach to see what effect that would have, to see if that would stop him." It did. Carl Kim, a mentally distressed 34-year-old Burlington man, dropped to the ground writhing in pain and crying "I give up, I give up" and was dead before the hour was up. Cairns, a Halton Regional Police patrol of…

Firstly this a a Daily Mail headline not mine (copied & pasted). However, the incident itself is somewhat disturbing, despite an internet search it's not been widely reported outside of the US. Wasn't quite sure where to post this also, any mods' please feel free to move to wherever appropriate. "A shocking video has been released allegedly showing police officers tasering and beating a homeless man to death who they claim was resisting arrest.Though the video is not clear, eye witnesses say the homeless man - Kelly Thomas, 37 - was unable to put up any resistance and was lying on the ground on his front when the attack took place on July 5. His screams and cries fo…

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Read more with loads of photos and video: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2534496/Mexican-vigilante-gunmen-disarm-local-POLICE-rid-town-feared-Knights-Templar-drug-cartel.html Courtesy of the Daily Mail Mexican vigilante gunmen disarm local POLICE so they can rid town of feared Knights Templar drug cartel - Residents living in fear of violent criminal gangs in south-west Mexico are taking matters into their own hands - Yesterday 600 vigilantes seized control of town of Paracuaro in Michoacan state in bloody battle that left one dead - Convoy of 'autodefensas', or self-defence groups, drove into the town controlled by drugs gang in blacked-out SUVs - They took ba…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYnGIxBwjK0 Had to be in the US (partly of course due to their policy of taking refs in public). In the UK even if that were more common I think they'd be more inclined to spit in your tea than be in your face. The funny bit really are all the armchair Comrades and Anarchists commenting (probably a lot before their Mums tell them to go to bed for school) who all make themselves sound like hardmen but who probably just mentally think nasty thoughts when they actually meet a police officer in the flesh - the US of course has the worst of both worlds - people like that on the left and then people on the extreme right who view the police as ag…

New York Good Cop's Boots Gift Is Web HitThe moment a police officer buys a barefooted homeless man a pair of boots is captured on camera and becomes an internet hit. 2:14pm UK, Thursday 29 November 2012 <p> The image was posted on the NYPD's Facebook page Email On a cold night in early November a New York policeman came across a homeless man with nothing on his feet - and bought him a pair of boots. The moment of kindness would have gone quietly unnoticed had it not been snapped by a passing tourist who then posted the photograph to the NYPD's Facebook page. It has since been viewed almost two million times and attracted more than 20,000…

Around 5,000 Spanish police officers marched through the streets of Madrid on Saturday to protest government austerity measures, including frozen pensions and the elimination of their Christmas bonuses. Officers travelled from across Spain to take part in the demonstration which was called by the nation’s main policing union. http://rt.com/news/spain-protests-police-austerity-953/ Shame we cannot follow in their footsteps!

It must have been a quiet weekend in Perth, from the same newspaper comes this.. Weather: Perth 16°C - 27°C. Mostly sunny. Western Australia Top jobs for the boys as band mates favoured by: Anthony DeCeglie From:The Sunday Times November 17, 20128:02Pm Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan has given three members of his rock band The Filth new senior gigs in the force. POLICE Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan has given three members of his rock band The Filth plum new senior gigs in the force. The Sunday Times can reveal that new Assistant Commissioner Paul Zanetti and new commanders Lawrence Panaia and Jon Tuttle are band mates with the Commissioner.…

They not stand for any crap over there.