10 h. ago Police Scotland front line fears as 5% of cops eligible to retire

A total of 914 officers can opt to retire in the period up to June 30 next year, with a further 148 members of police staff also eligible.

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12 h. ago Urgent police hunt for three children feared to be camping after vanishing on Sunday

South Wales Police have issued an urgent appeal to find three missing children who are believed to be together. Emily, Logan and Talisha have not been seen since Sunday

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24 h. ago Family and police voice fears for missing Daniel Wilson as 63

63-year-old Daniel Wilson has been missing from the Dublin area since Sunday, August 31, with it currently not known what he was wearing when he was last seen

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46 h. ago ‘I only see harm coming’: Top CDC official who quit over RFK Jr policies says he fears more attacks on vaccines still to come

Demetre Daskalakis warns that the new acting CDC director will only serve Robert F. Kennedy Jr

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3 d. ago Oliver Pugh: Everything we know as Brit boy 'abducted in Marbella and taken to Russia'

Spanish police fear little Oliver Pugh, three, has been taken from Spain to Russia and have named his mother - a Russian citizen - as the prime suspect in his abduction

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3 d. ago Strictly's Shirley Ballas thought 'this can't go on' as she speaks out on fiancé's 'vanishing act'

The Strictly Come Dancing star previously described her love life as a 'disaster' as she officially confirmed her split from Danny Taylor

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3 d. ago British boy, 3, 'abducted' in Marbella as police fear he's been taken to Russia

Oliver was last seen in Marbella on July 4 and his father alerted Spanish police that he was missing on August 7

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4 d. ago Brit boy, 3, 'abducted' in Marbella as police fear he's been snatched to Russia

Police have launched a major operation in a bid to find a three-year-old British boy who is believed to have been abducted by his Russian mum - his British dad sounded the alarm

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4 d. ago Police officer left 'shivering in fear' after pig farmer locked her inside compound

The 'nasty' farmer 'mocked' officers who were investigating a suspected road accident

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5 d. ago 'Public safety' fears as 22 police custody suites have closed in last two years

“Public safety” concerns have been raised after the scale of the closure of custody suites in Scotland has been revealed.

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5 d. ago Hospital bosses called in police amid fears sterilised items were being 'intentionally damaged'

Further details have also emerged about allegations staff at the University Hospital of Wales invited members of the public into operating theatres

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6 d. ago A Detroit man told police he feared for his life. Soon afterwards, officials say someone intentionally ran him down

The victim suffered a traumatic brain injury and remains at the hospital in critical condition, his lawyer said

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7 d. ago Australia police shooting latest: Two officers feared dead in ‘active incident’ in rural town of Porepunkah

Prime minister Anthony Albanese praises officers for their bravery

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1 week ago Police officers 'fear being attacked, sexually assaulted or trampled' at Notting Hill Carnival

Metropolitan Police Federation raises concerns about being ‘at the mercy of the crowd’ — after 61 assaults on officers were recorded over just two days at last year’s event

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1 week ago Police fears football match pyros will kill fan revealed in government documents

Documents revealed under Freedom of Information state that “Concerns that the misuse of pyrotechnics will lead to someone in Scotland being maimed for life or killed are real."

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1 week ago DC food delivery drivers are being swept off the street in police crackdown: ‘Widespread fear amongst community members’

Washington, D.C. area restaurant workers report a decline in the number of delivery drivers taking orders in the city

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1 week ago Met Police chief says only criminals will fear deployment of facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnival

Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley tells 11 civil liberties and anti-racism groups: ‘Why wouldn't we use it?’

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2 w. ago ANDREW PIERCE: Londoners have the Tube, Sadiq Khan has a gravy train

London may be riddled with crime, soaring prices and poor-quality transport - but at least Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan and his officials can enjoy the finer things in life.

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2 w. ago German police are investigating a €0.15 water butt theft – and I fear they’re on the right side of history

I’ve often laughed at those who are voluntarily extremely frugal. But in a world of dwindling resources, aren’t the real weirdos the ones throwing yacht parties and sending Katy Perry into space? Here’s a silly season story for you: a 51-year-old woman in the German town of Spaichingen in Swabia is under criminal investigation on suspicion of filling watering cans from her neighbour’s water butt. The total estimated value of the purloined water: €0.15.It’s wonderfully daft. She allegedly hid behind a bin to evade detection and, according to reports, the police declared, with Solomonic gravity: “Once it is in the barrel, [the water] no longer belongs to the heavens.” Who knows what motivated this nano-crime: a moment of midlife madness? Some kind of grudge? But water is metered in Germany so there might a kind of extreme parsimony at work (Swabian housewives are legendarily thrifty, apparently). Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Voices: I watched the police arrest hundreds of peaceful protesters – I fear Britain is on a slippery slope towards authoritarianism

What human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger saw at the Palestine Action demonstration in Parliament Square was not public order policing – it was the suppression of lawful dissent, and the deliberate targeting of vulnerable people to send a chilling message: no cause is now safe from criminalisation

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