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Story by thepittsburghchannel.com WTAE-TV > ALLEGHENY COUNTY -- A police officer who was supposed to be helping control traffic was caught taking a nap in his car instead. A home video was taken last Monday near the Homestead Grays Bridge. Although the lights of the patrol car were running, the video captured the officer inside the car asleep. The police officer should have been helping to control traffic for the bridge construction project, which had caused the streets to be frequently clogged in recent weeks. West Homestead Chief Christopher Deasy said the officer had just worked a double shift bef…

Courtesy of CTV Dozens of people were arrested Wednesday morning after more than 350 police officers carried out a massive operation aimed at dismantling a Quebec drug-trafficking ring. Thirty-six people have been arrested so far in police raids carried out by at least 350 officers from the RCMP, aboriginal police and the Surete du Quebec in Montreal, Sherbrooke and Kanesatake -- a Mohawk community outside of Montreal. Courtesy of CTV Courtesy of CTV > Courtesy of CTV "This investigation led us to 42 searches this morning, 24 in the Sherbrooke area, 16 in Montreal and one in Kanasat…

Senior Aruba officials urge greater co-operation during visit to Interpol 22 June 2006 Minister Croes (centre) and Director Lopez (right) with Interpol Executive Director of Police Services Jean-Michel Louboutin. Minister Croes and Director Lopez learn more about the Command and Co-ordination Centre.Greater cooperation between Interpol and Caribbean countries was the focus of discussions during the visit of Aruba’s Minister of Justice Hyacintho R. Croes and Director of Legislation and Legal Affairs Urbano Lopez to the Interpol General Secretariat on 22 June. They also requested Interpol’s assistance during the World Cricket Champio…

Mexico's top cop: Gangs create perception of insecurity Monday, June 19, 2006; Posted: 2:06 p.m. EDT (18:06 GMT) MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) -- Mexico's top police official said Monday that homicides nationwide dropped nearly 18 percent from 2000 to 2005, and that things are improving in Nuevo Laredo, a northern border city plagued by murder and drug-related mayhem. But Public Safety Secretary Eduardo Medina acknowledged that many Mexicans continue to feel unsafe. "On a national level, from 2000 to 2005, we have seen a reduction of 17.6 percent in homicides," Medina told a news conference at the presidential residence in the Mexi…

AP: Police Got Phone Data From Brokers Email this Story Jun 20, 6:42 AM (ET) By TED BRIDIS and JOHN SOLOMON (AP) In this document obtained by the Associated Press from congressional investigators, e-mails from... Full Image <> if (NAV_NS&&NAV_VER<6) .write(" "); else document.write(" "); <> var fiMaxNumSponLinks = 5; var fiSponLinksDivHgt = 195; var fiSponLinkTarget = new Array(); var globHtmlWriteSponSideBar1Obj = new Object(); globHtmlWriteSponSideBar1Obj.type = '8'; fiSponLinkTarget[0]= new Array('gca_sidebar1', globHtmlWriteSponSideBar1Obj); fiSponLinkTarget[1]= new Array('gca_si…

Full story linked below Counter-terrorism British agents trace 7/7 terror links to smalltown America By Daniel McGrory No 10 rejects calls for inquiry into bombings as evidence emerges of extremists’ role in global terror network BRITISH agents are operating in the United States to trace links with Islamic extremists from England who recruit Muslims to fight for terrorist groups abroad. The British-led investigation has played a part in identifying a number of US-based terrorists and helped the authorities in Washington to break up an al-Qaeda cell operating in Falls Church, Virginia. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,29389-…

UK government paying one-third of foreign cops salaries BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer Reporter Sunday, June 18, 2006 THE UK government finances a third of the salary package offered to the Briton cops now serving the Jamaica Constabulary Force, the British High Commission said Friday, responding to Sunday Observer queries. "Over the course of the contracts, money will be coming from both the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and DFID, who have committed to funding," said Mark Waller, the high commission's press and political affairs officer. Waller said the sum included emoluments and fringe benefits, but he would not divulge details as to the fu…

Canada's largest homicide unit uses an aggressive team approach to solve Lower Mainland murders Insp. Wayne Rideout says IHIT members work long, hard hours because 'they want to find some resolution for the family.' Photograph by : Mark van Manen, Vancouver Sun Kim Bolan, Vancouver Sun Published: Saturday, June 17, 2006 When Brenda Domingo was found raped, and stabbed more than 80 times, just metres away from her two-month-old daughter in November 2003, investigators from the fledgling Integrated Homicide Investigation Team pulled out all the stops to find her killer. Teams of eight officers w…

TANZANIA Zanzibar cops arrest 'illegal' chickens Posted Wed, 14 Jun 2006 Arusha – Zanzibar authorities have seized a large consignment of fowls illegally imported from Brazil, said a local daily. Tanzania imposed the ban last week to prevent a possible bird flu outbreak, said The Guardian. Police have arrested three businessmen on the semi-autonomous island thought to be connected to the chickens. Bird flu in East Africa has only been confirmed in Djibouti, although authorities worry that bird flu could spread south to Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. Zanzibar imports chickens from mainland Tanzania, South Africa and Brazil. -BiA Online http://www.b…

By RIAZ KHAN, Associated Press Writer Friday, June 16, 2006 (06-16) 11:10 PDT PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- A Pakistani journalist who reported on a U.S. airstrike that killed an al-Qaida operative was found shot to death in a remote tribal region Friday six months after vanishing, his brother and a government official said. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/06/16/ international/i073017D02.DTL&feed=rss.news

MOSCOW, June 14 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian police solved 772,000 crimes and detained about 580,000 suspects in these crimes since the beginning of this year, a source in the Russian Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass on Wednesday. However, 782,000 crimes remain unsolved, one third of them are grave and heinous crimes. According to the statistics, more than 1.5 million crimes or 22 percent more than for the same period in 2005 were registered from January to May 2006. “About half of all crimes make property stealing. As many as 625,000 thefts, 152,000 robberies and 25,000 armed attacks were committed for five months in 2006,” the source said. The Interior Ministry con…

Suspect's Dog Bites Him in Police Chase By Associated Press June 14, 2006, 7:50 AM EDT CEDAR CITY, Utah -- A police pursuit ended when the suspect's dog, not happy about being bounced around in the car, bit its owner on the face. Iron County sheriff's officers approached Nicholas T. Galanis, 47, of Salt Lake City to talk to him about some stolen property. src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/trb.newsday/news/natworld/nation/wire;p=s;rg=ur;sz=300x250;tile=2;ord=75747349" width="300" height="250" border="0" alt=""> Galanis got in his car and fled with his dog. The chase went southbound on Gold Springs Road, a windy, bumpy dirt road…

DC Cops Form Intel Agency June 14, 2006: The war on terror has made many organizations more active in the intelligence department. Since 2001, for example, the U.S. Capitol Police has assigned eight percent of their 600 personnel to intelligence work. The Capitol Police are responsible for security in and around the Capitol area in Washington, DC. The people they protect include the 535 Senators and Representatives, their families in the area, and Congressional staffers and anyone else working in the vicinity. In addition to the usual work of collecting information on potential threats (including tips from the CIA, FBI and other agencies), the Capitol Police intel unit …

Motivating our police personnel: The UN request for 8 officers in Kosovo | Posted: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 Ghanaians love to bash their policemen and women. Some of them truly deserve whatever bashing they get because if truth be told, they exhibit all that is not acceptable in such a noble profession. However, generally, our police, like our military have been able to cultivate a very positive international image for themselves and the country in the numerous peacekeeping assignments they have been involved in since Ghana became independent 50 years ago. Just last month, the United Nations office in Kosovo requested from the Ghana Government the re…

For all those who are sick of the UK and the job why not apply for South Australia they are recruiting again....details below were taken from their website they want another 70 UK officers! At least we are valued somewhere! SOUTH AUSTRALIA POLICE UNITED KINGDOM RECRUITING The South Australia Police (SAPOL) seeks to recruit a total of up to 70 serving United Kingdom (UK) police officers to commence training at the Police Academy, and employment with SAPOL, for its 2006–07 intakes. Courses will commence in early December 2006 and early March 2007. Recruits will undertake a training program of up to three months at the Police Academy, Fort Largs, Adelaide, followed…