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US to invest $1.2 million for Ghana police academy
The United States embassy in Ghana's capital says the U.S. is investing over $1.2 million to construct a training center for the marine unit of the ...
Suicide attackers kill 5 Afghan policemen
Eight suicide bombers struck a police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least five officers, a security official said.
'Embarrassed' ex-Pittsburgh chief to plead guilty
Former city police Chief Nate Harper will plead guilty to charges that he conspired to steal city police funds deposited into unauthorized police ...
Afghan local policeman kills 5 colleagues
A member of Afghanistan's government-backed militia program has shot and killed five of his colleagues, an official said Friday. The shooting occurred ...
Study finds nearly 2 in 3 hate crimes unreported
Despite growing awareness of hate crimes, the share of those crimes reported to police has fallen in recent years as more victims of violent attacks ...
NYC cop: Payback likely after stop-frisk testimony
A New York City police officer testified Wednesday that he's already been labeled a rat and expects more retaliation from colleagues for testifying ...
Bloomberg says he'd veto proposal for NYPD monitor
In a politically charged standoff over police oversight in the nation's biggest city, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Wednesday he'd veto a plan to put ...
Sheriff proposes ankle monitors for some seniors
A northern Utah sheriff's office is floating a unique and unproven idea for keeping seniors with Alzheimer's disease and dementia safe: Give them ...
Homicides down, police overtime way up in Chicago
Hundreds of Chicago police officers are hitting the streets on overtime every night in dangerous neighborhoods, the latest tactic by Mayor Rahm ...
UK: Senior editor at The Sun charged over payoffs
The deputy editor at The Sun tabloid in Britain has been charged with authorizing thousands of pounds in illegal payoffs to government officials, ...
Lawmakers reach deal for NYPD inspector general
The New York Police Department would get a new watchdog under a deal city lawmakers reached Tuesday, propelling a plan galvanized by outrage over its ...
Newtown sees jump in gun permit applications
Applications for gun permits have jumped in Newtown since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, which sparked a renewed debate about stricter gun ...
Trial opens for NYC stop-and-frisk challenge
Many of the tens of thousands of New Yorkers stopped, questioned and sometimes frisked by police in the past decade were wrongly targeted because of ...
Calif. sheriff's captain: Race car kills 2
A speeding race car careened off a track and into pit row during warm-up laps at a California raceway Saturday night, killing a 14-year-old boy and ...
Embattled Albuquerque, NM, police chief to retire
The head of Albuquerque's embattled police department says he's retiring after an eight-year tenure marred by a spike in fatal police shootings and ...
Man sentenced for NYC synagogue bomb plot
An Algerian New Yorker was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday for plotting an attack on New York City synagogues, even as his lawyers continued ...
Mom of NYC teen shot by police: Why was he killed?
Carol Gray, her head wrapped in a black scarf and her tearful eyes concealed by sunglasses, held up a photograph of her 16-year-old son, who was shot ...
AP EXCLUSIVE: Police blamed in Egypt revolt deaths
The highest-level inquiry into the deaths of nearly 900 protesters in Egypt's uprising has concluded that police were behind nearly all the killings ...
Police scrutinized over of adversary's death
Mary Han was a successful civil rights attorney who for decades battled over the rights of abused women, accused prostitutes and the homeless. In the ...
Insider attack kills 2 US troops, 2 Afghans
A police officer opened fire on U.S. and Afghan forces at a police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, sparking a firefight that killed two ...
South Africa holds bail hearing for charged police
A Mozambican taxi driver who was dragged from a South African police vehicle died from lack of oxygen and also suffered extensive head lacerations, ...
Egyptian Soccer fans rampage over court verdicts
Egyptian soccer fans rampaged through the heart of Cairo on Saturday, furious about the acquittal of seven police officers while death sentences ...
Police strikes in Egypt accelerate, adding turmoil
After months of battling with angry young protesters, many in Egypt's police forces say they have had enough. Strikes and protests spread around the ...
Police chief's polygraph targets racist applicants
A police chief hired to rebuild a tiny Tennessee department dismantled by scandal is using a lie-detector test to keep racists off his force.
SAfrica: former Pistorius detective quits force
The former lead detective in South Africa's investigation of the murder case against Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has resigned from the police ...