Tag: police

• Friday, April 7th 2023 - 19:34 UTC

  Insecurity crisis in Chile: government gives police more power to use firearms

  

  Street crime and violence have triggered a major political crisis in Chile, because of rampant insecurity, and the third police officer in less than a month was killed on duty. The leftish/populist government of Chile has had to sign draconian laws favoring law enforcement officer's right to use their arms, increased penalties for crimes involving firearm possession, plus US$ 1,5 billion in funds to fight crime,

• Monday, August 22nd 2022 - 13:03 UTC

  US: Three police officers suspended after being recorded beating up a man on the ground

  

  Three police officers in Arkansas, United States, were suspended on Sunday after a video was made public in which they are seen beating a man they had arrested, local media reported.

• Monday, March 7th 2022 - 21:09 UTC

  Local gay police chief in the US fired for favoring non-white officers

  

  Fort Lauderdale's Chief of Police has been sacked after it was determined he had discriminated against white officers when deciding on their promotions on the grounds of their race and not of their skills for the job, it was reported.<

• Friday, February 11th 2022 - 22:51 UTC

  London Police Chief resigns over a series of scandals

  

  London's first-ever female Chief of Police, Dame Cressida Dick, has turned in her resignation Thursday after allegedly losing the confidence of Mayor Shadiq Khan and a amid a scandal involving racism and misogynistic behavior within Scotland Yard.

• Tuesday, August 17th 2021 - 09:21 UTC

  Paraguayan Police takes action to clear roads besieged by striking truckers

  

  Paraguay's National Police Monday took action to clear the roads which were being blocked by striking lorries in Guairá and Alto Paraná, it was reported.

• Saturday, March 20th 2021 - 08:07 UTC

  Gang warfare next to Mexico City leaves 13 police officers on patrol massacred

  

  Bullet casings still littered the ground on Friday in Coatepec Harinas, a troubled municipality southwest of Mexico City where 13 police officers on patrol were brutally murdered in an ambush by suspected drug gang members.

• Wednesday, September 9th 2020 - 09:02 UTC

  Buenos Aires province police force, 90,000 strong, ceases activities demanding higher pay

  

  The police force from the province of Buenos Aires have ceased activities for the second day running on Tuesday to demand higher salaries and better working conditions for the beat in metropolitan Buenos Aires where criminality and insecurity are rampant.

• Saturday, July 18th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  A George Floyd similar incident video-taped in London: “get off my neck” cried the black man

  

  London's police force suspended an officer on Friday after video footage emerged of him appearing to kneel on the head and neck of a Black man they had detained who cried out, “Get off my neck!”

• Tuesday, June 23rd 2020 - 06:55 UTC

  Google unit workers petition the company to stop selling services to police departments

  

  More than 1,600 workers at Alphabet Inc are petitioning its Google unit to stop selling email and other services to police departments. The workers in a petition expressed disappointment with Google not joining the “millions who want to defang and defund” police departments.

• Monday, June 15th 2020 - 06:12 UTC

  Trump favors a ban on police chokeholds in most instances

  

  US President Donald Trump said in an interview aired that he would like to see a ban on police chokeholds in most instances, although he suggested their use would be understandable in some one-on-one situations.