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Law Enforcement
Friday, March 16th, 2012
Law Enforcement »
Boise, ID Police say 18 firearms have gone missing (video).
Police say a department audit from 2011 indicated that some of the guns it scheduled to be destroyed either weren’t destroyed, or were not documented as destroyed by the department.
Boise Police tell KTVB the audit prompted the department to request an outside criminal investigation to address the issue. Police went on to say the [...]
Friday, March 16th, 2012
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Washington State signs into law ‘Blue Alerts’ bill to help find cop killers.
Image: WSPA
HB 1820, also known as the “Blue Alert Bill,” unanimously passed the house Feb. 29 — just six days after Washington State Patrol trooper Tony Radulescu was gunned down in the line of duty. It was first considered after Seattle police officer Timothy Brenton was killed in 2009 and was drafted in 2010.
The law [...]
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Thursday, March 15th, 2012
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New York State giant criminal DNA database is on its way.
State lawmakers have agreed on a bill to make New York’s DNA database among the most expansive in the country, requiring people convicted of any crime to give samples, according to Assemblyman Joseph R. Lentol, a Brooklyn Democrat.
The New York Civil Liberties Union has criticized the database expansion, saying that it could lead to errors [...]
Related Topics: New York
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
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Tampa, Florida law enforcement to have dedicated broadband network.
Last month — more than a decade after 9/11 — federal lawmakers set aside a portion of the wireless spectrum exclusively for first responders, ensuring they won’t be left in the dark if commercial networks shut down during a crisis.
And though it won’t be running nationwide for a year, Tampa plans to roll out a [...]
Related Topics: Florida
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
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Obese police officers in the U.K. face pay cuts.
Image: Alamy
British police officers must prove their fitness in annual tests or have their pay docked after a survey found that 53 percent were overweight and one in 100 was morbidly obese, a review concluded on Thursday.
The government-commissioned report into police pay and conditions suggested that officers who failed a fitness test three times should [...]
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
Law Enforcement »
Illegal crossings fall at US-Mexico border, but tensions remain high.
A small fence separates densely populated Tijuana, Mexico, right, from the United States in the Border Patrol’s San Diego Sector. Construction is underway to extend a secondary fence over the top of this hill and eventually to the Pacific Ocean. Image: army.mil, Sgt. 1st Class Gordon Hyd
The impact of steep declines in the number of [...]
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
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New Orleans to see influx of federal officers to fight crime surge.
Image: SGVN/Staff Photo by Raul Roa/SVCity
A few dozen federal law enforcement agents will be deployed to New Orleans’ streets in the coming weeks to help the city’s police department crack down on violent crime. Federal and local officials are still working on finalizing the program, and details on the troop surge are scarce.
The initiative comes [...]
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
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Majority of New York City voters approve of NYPD’s Muslim surveillance: poll.
NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Most city voters think the New York Police Department has been effective in fighting terrorism, and a majority say the NYPD has acted appropriately in its dealing with Muslims, according to a new poll released Tuesday that questioned respondents following a series of stories from The Associated [...]
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Law Enforcement »
In Nogales, AZ surveillance system strapped to blimp for aerial border surveillance.
Image: Nogales International
“Border Patrol operators, along with supervisory Border Patrol agents, will test the technology and its ability to identify risks and threats occurring along the border,” CBP spokesman Jason Rheinfrank.
Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada believes the aerostat could be a powerful weapon in the fight against drugs and human trafficking.
“Anything that they can [...]
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Law Enforcement »
Texas for third year warns against spring break Mexico travel.
Image: resort-vacation-rentals.com
Texas on Tuesday warned residents for the third consecutive year not to travel to Mexico during the upcoming university spring break season, saying drug cartel violence and other criminal activity are a safety threat even in resort areas.
The advisory comes despite pleas from top Mexican officials to target the travel warnings to specific areas [...]
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NEW Witness the selection and training process of selecting Afghan Special Forces (video).
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NEW NATO leaders seal landmark agreement to hand control of Afghanistan over to its own security forces by the middle of next year.
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NEW Huge suicide blast kills more than 100 troops in Yemen.
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NEW Predator drones becoming a bigger force on Texas/Arizona/Mexico border (video).
Law Enforcement » » Monday, May 21 2012
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