Posts Tagged ‘police-officer’

Officer parents pipe bomb target

Monday, April 16th, 2012

A police officer’s elderly parents are the target of a pipe bomb attack for the second time in Londonderry.

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Clubs urged to pay for policing

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

Football clubs should pay for the cost of policing a wider area around stadia, the sport’s most senior police officer says.

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Clubs urged to pay for policing

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

Football clubs should pay for the cost of policing a wider area around stadia, the sport’s most senior police officer says.

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Afghan police officer kills 9 comrades

Friday, March 30th, 2012

An Afghan police officer shot and killed nine other officers in southeast Afghanistan on Thursday night, authorities said.

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Police officer slashed with knife

Sunday, February 5th, 2012

A police officer is stabbed while responding to an emergency call in the Kilwilkie estate in Lurgan.

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Police Officer Is Shot in the Face At a Brooklyn Housing Project

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

The police officer was wounded while pursuing a man at a city housing project, the authorities said.

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150 officers warned over Facebook

Friday, December 30th, 2011

One police officer was sacked and more than 150 faced disciplinary action over their behaviour on Facebook in a three-year period, figures show.

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Pa. appeals court overturns woman’s conviction in World Series tickets-for-sex case

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

PHILADELPHIA — An appeals court has overturned the attempted prostitution conviction of a Philadelphia woman who was accused of offering sexual favors for World Series tickets. Authorities had alleged that Susan Finkelstein posted a racy online ad, then met with an undercover Bensalem police officer in October 2009 and offered to perform sexual acts in exchange for tickets to see the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees. Read full article > >

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State Police: Virginia Tech gunman purchased handgun legally months before killing officer

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

RICHMOND, Va. — The man who fatally ambushed a Virginia Tech police officer had legally purchased the handgun used in the shooting, Virginia State Police said Tuesday. Ross T. Ashely, 22, purchased the .40-caliber semiautomatic weapon used to gun down officer Derick Crouse in January from a licensed Virginia gun dealer, state police investigators said in a statement. The name of the dealer was not released. Read full article > >

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Execution Case Dropped Against Mumia Abu-Jamal in Officer’s Killing

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

Ending a case that attracted international attention, prosecutors dropped attempts to execute Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer in 1981.

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Cell-shove officer wins job back

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

A police officer who was sacked by his force after being jailed for throwing a woman on to a concrete cell floor wins his job back.

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Dead child in ‘horrendous’ state

Monday, November 21st, 2011

A police officer tells the trial of a woman accused of murdering her toddler son that the child’s body was found in a “horrendous” state.

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Neo-Nazis Suspected in Wave of Crimes in Germany

Monday, November 14th, 2011

The murders of at least 10 people included immigrant shopkeepers and a police officer, German officials said Sunday. The group is also suspected in bank robberies and a bombing.

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Suspect in Arundel Mills shootings is killed by police

Sunday, November 13th, 2011

Hours after a man and woman were fatally shot in the parking lot of Arundel Mills mall in Hanover, the suspected assailant was killed Saturday morning in Prince George’s County in an exchange of gunfire that also left one Prince George’s police officer wounded, authorities said. James Edward Coleman, 22, of District Heights was shot by police after officers from Prince George’s and Anne Arundel counties arrived at the single-family home he shared with his parents on Rydal Road, police said. Read full article > >

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D.C. man faces gun charge after Georgetown chase on Halloween night

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

After a teenager was shot in Georgetown on Halloween night, two witnesses saw a man stuff something in his waistband and take off with a companion. The witnesses flagged down a police officer who captured one of the men, but the other got away. The account of what happened Monday night in the 2800 block of M St. NW was revealed in court papers Wednesday. The man arrested, 24-year-old Andre Coleman of the 4300 block of Gorman Terrace SE, has been charged with carrying a pistol without a license. Nobody has been charged in the shooting, which left the 17-year-old victim hospitalized Wednesday in critical condition. Read full article > >

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