• Inmates flee Siberian prison via tunnel

  Over 2,500 police officers are engaged in search of four inmates, jailed for murder and burglary, who escaped from a prison in the East Siberia's Irkutsk region by digging a tunnel, local officials said Saturday. The prisoners escaped from an industrial area of a colony in Markovo village, where they worked as carpenters, by digging a 20-metre-long tunnel, an official statement said. The ...

• Afghan police officer killed in Taliban attack

  A senior police official was killed in Afghanistan's Farah province when two Taliban militants opened fire on him, an official said Saturday. Ghani Khan, the police chief of Khak-e-Safid district, was visiting Charbagh area outside provincial capital Farah city Friday night. Khan was killed on the spot as two Taliban militants, riding a motorcycle, came across and sprayed bullets, reported ...

• Sectarian Violence Kills 11 in Iraq

  It was a violent day in Iraq Saturday with at least 11 people killed and 10 policemen kidnapped as hatred simmers between the ruling Shi'ite majority and the Sunni minority. Gunmen broke into the home of an anti-terrorism policeman in the Baghdad suburb of Rasheed, killing him, his wife, and two children. Another security officer was killed elsewhere in Rasheed. Police say gunmen killed ...

• Top Pakistani Politician Gunned Down in Karachi

  A top Pakistani politician has been shot and killed in Karachi. Police say Zahra Shahid Hussain was shot twice in the head Saturday during an attempted street robbery outside her home. She died on the way to the hospital. A spokesman for Hussain's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, or PTI, calls her killing an act of terrorism. Hussain was a senior vice president of PTI, which ...

• Anti-terror officer killed with family in Baghdad

  Five people, including an anti-terrorism police officer along with his wife and children, were shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the Iraqi capital Saturday, a government source said. The incident occurred at dawn when gunmen broke into the house of the officer in al-Rasheed suburb and shot him dead with his wife and two children, reported Xinhua citing a source in Iraq's interior ...

• N. Ky. sheriff making big changes

  ALEXANDRIA, Ky. - A northern Kentucky sheriff has made some big changes during his first few months in office.Campbell County Sheriff Jeff Kidwell told The Kentucky Enquirer (http://bit.ly/12bLioE) that he hopes his actions make the Campbell County Sheriff's Department more visible.Kidwell was the first new sheriff elected to the post in 25 years, and says he almost started from scratch to ...

• Police arrest British man on suspicion of slitting kids throats

  The British Foreign Office is "urgently" investigating reports that a British man has been arrested on suspicion of slitting the throats of his two children in France.The bodies of the youngsters, said to be aged five and 10, were discovered in a flat near Lyon yesterday afternoon, according to local reports.A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are aware of the reports and we are ...

• Oakland Effect Police say Melrose and 50th is latest crime hot spot

  Month on month, crime is up in our hot spot. With one murder, seven robberies, one shooting and seven residential burglaries, every category saw an increase since the last Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council for police District 27 met. And my particular block, it turns out, was the worst spot in the neighborhood."Melrose and 50th is one of the hot spots this month," said our local ...

• Tunisian Salafis Clash with Police in Holy City of Kairouan

  Members of the Tunisian branch of radical Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia have clashed with police in the Tunisian city of Kairouan, after the law enforcement attempted to disperse their meeting. The Ansar al-Sharia congress, planned for Sunday in Kairouan, was banned by Tunisian authorities as posing a threat to public order. The leadership of the group warned its supporters not to travel to ...

• Police shoot dead terror couple

  19 May 2013 Police shot dead a couple suspected of being terrorists after they threw four grenades, wounding five officers in an overnight stand-off ...

• Kenya police kill terror couple - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois Missouri News Sports

  By TOM ODULAAssociated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Police shot dead a couple suspected to be terrorists after they threw four grenades, wounding five officers in an overnight stand-off, a police official said Sunday. Following a tip, investigators raided the apartment where the couple was staying in the Githurai Kimbo area on the outskirts of Nairobi Saturday evening and ordered them out of ...

• Cops crack down on Cape Flats gangsters

  Western Cape police are ramping up their assault on Cape Flats gangs, carrying out a slew of raids and making dozens of arrests over the past few ...

• Tunisian police clash with Islamists over banned rally

  KAIROUAN, Tunisia (Reuters) - Supporters of the hardline Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia clashed with Tunisian police on Sunday after the government banned its annual rally, saying it posed a threat to ...

• Protesting Egyptian police block Israel border crossing

  CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police enraged by the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by Islamist gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula blocked a commercial border crossing ...

• Tunisian police clash with al Qaeda supporters

  By Reuters' Zoubier Souissi, Tarek Amara and Mohamed Argoubi KAIROUAN, Tunisia - Supporters of the hard-line Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia clashed with Tunisian police on Sunday after the government banned its annual rally, saying it posed a threat to society. Ansar al-Sharia, which openly supports al Qaeda, is considered the most radical of the hardline Islamist groups to emerge in ...

• Hofstra student killed in robbery was shot by cops

  The 21-year-old Hofstra student who was killed during a Long Island home invasion was shot dead by a police officer as the gunman had her in a headlock and was trying to drag her out of the house, officials said ...

• At least six Afghan police officers dead in Taliban fighting

  At least six Afghan police officers died and four others were injured Sunday in clashes with Taliban militants in Ghazni province, officials said. Moqor District Gov. Sahib Khan Elham said an unknown number of Taliban militants attacked Afghan police at checkpoints in the district. The Taliban suffered casualties as well, although an exact number of killed and injured was not reported, Khaama ...

• Hostage victim mistakenly killed by police in Hempstead N.Y.

  A Hempstead, N.Y., police officer shot and killed a 21-year-old Hofstra University student while aiming for the man holding her hostage, officials said. Dalton Smith, 30, of Hempstead, N.Y., forced his way into the home of Andrea Rebello and her twin sister, Jessica, Friday in an apparent robbery attempt, Nassau County police said. A person who was in the home at the time of the robbery ...

• Saif bin Zayed realises childs wish to become a police officer

  WAM ABU DHABI, May 19th, 2013 (WAM) -- H.H. Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, has realised the wish of Amir Muhammad Al Falahi, a five-year-old with Thalassemia, to become a Captain in the police force and perform the work and duties of an officer. Sheikh Saif, in a fatherly gesture, received Al Falahi who was wearing a military ...

• Police Brutality Insanity In Bronx

  We call on City and NYPD officials to investigate this video as posted on YouTube by Christina Gonzalez, along with her story below. How dare the NYPD arrest her and her partner? What country do we live in? This reminds me of the terror the Communist Party's "Militsia" (Police) exerted over citizens in Eastern European countries during the dark ages of the Communist Era. Watch ...

• Tunisian police ‘fire tear gas’ to disperse Ansar al-Sharia rally

  Tunisian Police Special Unit agents fix a national flag on their vehicle in front of the Okba Ibn Nafaa mosque in the central Tunisian city of Kairouan. (Fethi Belaid/ AFP) Tunisian police fired tear gas and shots into the air in Tunis on Sunday to disperse some 500 supporters of the hardline Islamist ...

• Attacks kill 10 police in Afghanistan

  TALIBAN attacks have killed at least ten Afghan police, officials say. In one of the incidents, Taliban fighters attacked a security check post in the Muqur district of Ghazni province in southern Afghanistan, killing six police, according to the district governor. "Six of our local police were martyred after hours of clashes with the Taliban when they attacked their post early today," ...

• Long Island police defend Hofstra student killing

  MINEOLA, N.Y. In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University. A short time later, the intruder, Dalton Smith, and a 21-year-old college junior, Andrea Rebello, were both dead. The two were killed early Friday by a Nassau County police ...

• In pictures What could be the next car for Dubai police

  Goldfinger DB5 Beautiful, deadly and legendary, the most famous four-wheeled movie star of all time would make for an ideal police car. Bulletproof screen, tyre-shredding wheel spinners, primitive sat-nav and a very useful passenger ejector seat – James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 from Goldfinger and Thunderball had it all and would make a far more practical alternative to the One-77 ...

• Police Limit Comic May 19 2013

  Police Limit Comic is published on PoliceOne every Sunday. For more than a decade, the strip's cast of unnamed characters has been constantly struggling with stresses, not only from the criminal element on the street, but also from the upper echelons of the police department's top brass, clueless judges, and the liberal ...

• Commander of OMON riot police platoon detained on suspicion of abetting to gunmen in Dagestan.

  MOSCOW, May 19 (Itar-Tass) - Commander of the OMON riot police platoon in Dagestan was detained on suspicion of abetting to gunmen, the Russian Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass on Sunday. "On May 18, in Makhachkala the officers of the Dagestani centre for counteraction to extremism detained a 37-year-old lieutenant of police and the commander of the operative platoon of the OMON riot ...

• High court review for rape victims mother

  /enpproperty--> CHANGSHA - A high court in central China's Hunan province is to review attempts by the mother of a rape victim to sue a local authority for imprisoning her after she protested the sentences given to her daughter's violators. The Hunan Provincial People's High Court said on Sunday that it has accepted plaintiff Tang Hui's bid to have her appeal on the ...

• Tunisian police fire in air to disperse Islamists

  TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian police fired teargas and shots into the air in Tunis on Sunday to disperse some 500 supporters of the hardline Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia who were protesting and throwing stones at police after their rally was banned. Tunisia's government on Friday barred the organisation, which openly supports al Qaeda, from staging the rally in another city on Sunday, saying ...

• Vic cops fear for 12-year-old missing girl

  A 12-YEAR-OLD girl has gone missing from her home and police believe she may be with a teenage boy. Police say Calliopeia Tolongou was last seen at a relative's house in McClelland Ave, Lara, southwest of Melbourne, around 11pm (AEST) on Saturday night and has not been seen since. They believe Calliopeia may be travelling in a brown 1999 VT Holden Commodore sedan with registration number PMN ...

• Police Officer accidentally killed student

  View Photo Associated Press/Sleepy Hollow High School - In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rubello is shown. Police said Rubello, a junior at Hofstra ...

• Condition update on A419 casualties

  PC Jeff Rice of the Roads Policing Unit at Wiltshire Police has renewed the appeal for motorists not to stop on the A419 to leave floral tributes at the scene of yesterday's tragic crash. Several vehicles did so yesterday ...

• All football fans detained in Moscow released from police expect for 2 fans

  MOSCOW, May 19 (Itar-Tass) - All football fans detained in Moscow, except for two people, were released from police, the press service of the Moscow police department told Itar-Tass on ...

• Police Crash sends car into house

  INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Police have arrested a female driver after they say she caused another car to crash through an apartment building early Sunday morning. The crash happened near the 1800 block of South Emerson around 2 a.m. Sunday. Witnesses tell 24-Hour News 8 the driver of one car was speeding through a parking lot and slammed into another car. The impact sent the parked car through the ...

• Minneapolis police reopen 1996 murder case after tip

  Minneapolis police have reopened a 17-year-old cold case of a woman found stabbed to death in the trunk of her car. Police say a tip in March prompted investigators to reopen the investigation into the death of 31-year-old Anne Dunlap. She was found Jan. 1, 1996, in a Kmart parking lot in south Minneapolis. At the time, she and her husband Brad Dunlap were living temporarily with her parents ...

• 6 killed 38 injured as suicide blast hits police van in NW Pakistan

  ISLAMABAD, April 29 (Xinhua) -- At least six people were killed and 38 others injured when a suicide blast hit a police vehicle in Pakistan's northwest Peshawar city on Monday morning, police and hospital sources said. Muhammad Faisal, Superintendent Police of Peshawar, said that a suicide bomber carrying an estimated of five to six kg of explosive materials blew himself up near a police ...

• Video Police protesters clash in Turkey border town

  Demonstrators in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli clash with riot police during an anti-government protest over recent deadly bomb attacks. Sunita Rappai ...

• Police Kidnapped woman assaulted for days in local hotel

  A man with two out-of-state warrants for his arrest allegedly kidnapped a woman and assaulted her multiple times in a Medford hotel room, police ...

• Sheriff weighs in on pimps hip-hop cops and cameras on the Strip and more

  Sheriff Douglas Gillespie addresses reporters during a news conference at Las Vegas Metropolitan Police headquarters Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013 after Ammar Harris was arrested in North Hollywood, Calif. Harris, 26, is charged with murder in the Feb. 21, 2013, shooting and accident on the Las Vegas Strip that left three people ...

• Break-in suspect Hofstra student victim both killed by police during confrontation

  By FRANK ELTMAN,Associated Press MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) - In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University.A short time later, the intruder, Dalton Smith, and a 21-year-old college junior, Andrea Rebello, were both dead. The two were killed ...

• Coffee run in Philly leads to arrest of Kai the celebrity hatchet hitchhiker

  ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) - Two cups of coffee ended life on the run for an Internet sensation known as Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker.An employee at a Starbucks in Philadelphia is credited with recognizing 24-year-old Caleb "Kai" McGillvary, whose fledgling celebrity took a turn toward notoriety when authorities announced this week that he was wanted in the beating death of a New ...

• Kenya Police officer shot dead in Wajir

  Wajir , Kenya : A senior administration police officer was on Saturday evening shot dead by unknown assailants in wajir town in yet another incident of insecurity in Northeastern ...

• Adam Kokesh violently dragged from public protest by police arrested for ‘resisting arrest’

  his Facebook page , Adam is being charged with ';resisting arrest'; but is refusing to be booked for the charge which is obviously false. ...

• Police Chief and Former Intelligence Officer Media Blackout Over Serious Boston Bombing Questions

  I recently spoke with current Police Chief and former military intelligence officerJohnW.Gaissert regarding the mainstream media blackout over numerous portions of the Boston bombings, and I was inspired to hear the former Navy Commander detail the situation based on his expert ...

• Rajasthan Royals to file police complaint against trio

  Rajasthan Royals will file a police complaint against three of their players arrested earlier this week on allegations of spot-fixing. The decision was revealed by BCCI president N Srinivasan following an emergency working committee meeting of the board in Chennai to discuss the ...

• US college student being held hostage was shot and killed by police officer

  Andrea Rebello was shot once in the head on Friday morning by an officer who had responded to a report of a home invasion at an off-campus home, police said yesterday.The masked intruder pointed a gun at the officer while holding the 21-year-old Hofstra University student in a headlock, Nassau County homicide squad Lt John Azzata said.In a tense confrontation with the officer, gunman Dalton ...

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