1 hour ago Met Police under fire after recruiting more than 1,000 officers without checking their references over the course of more than a year

The Met police hired more than 1,000 officers without checking their references before they started at the force.

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5 h. ago Police officer killed, 5 injured after gunman took hostages at Pennsylvania hospital

Five people were injured and one police officer was killed during the shooting

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7 h. ago Police officer killed amid shooting at Pennsylvania hospital

Andrew Duarte of West York borough police department was slain Saturday at UPMC memorial hospital in YorkA police officer was killed Saturday after responding to a shooting at a central Pennsylvania hospital, officials said.The officer slain in the shooting at UPMC memorial hospital in York was identified as Andrew Duarte of the West York borough police department. He had been responding to a mutual aid call, the department posted on its Facebook page.Guardian staff contributed reporting Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Man killed intervening in knife attack on French police officers

Macron says knife attack is ‘without any doubt an act of Islamist terrorism’A 69-year-old man who intervened when a suspected terrorist attacked police officers with a knife shouting “Allahu Akbar” has died in eastern France.Two police officers were also seriously injured in the suspected Islamist terrorist act, which took place in the city of Mulhouse during a demonstration in support of the Congo on Saturday afternoon. Three other police officers were lightly wounded. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago One dead and several police officers injured in knife attack in France

Emmanuel Macron told reporters the attack was ‘without any doubt an act of Islamist terrorism’

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9 h. ago Rampaging knifeman kills one and leaves police officers seriously injured in France horror

A police officer has died and four more have been injured after an armed man, who was heard yelling Allahu Akbhar, attacked several people at a market in Mulhouse, France this afternoon.  

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9 h. ago France terror attacker screams 'Allahu Akbar' as several police officers stabbed

The Algerian Islamist terrorist was due to be deported.

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10 h. ago Police officer who removed burglar's tag so they could meet up for sex is jailed

Natasha Conneely, 31, who was part of the offender management unit at Bedfordshire Police, removed the burglar's tag in April so he could visit her house without being tracked.

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10 h. ago One police officer dead and five more injured in suspected terror knife attack in France

A police officer has died and five more have been injured in a suspected knife terror attack in France. 

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11 h. ago France mass stabbing: Attacker 'screaming God is great' knifes multiple police in Mulhouse

According to our information, a passerby was targeted by several stab wounds. Other people, including a city agent in charge of parking, as well as two municipal police officers, were also injured

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11 h. ago Virginia police officers killed during traffic stop shooting, officials say

There is no longer an ‘active threat’ to community members, police said, after two officers were killed during a late-night traffic stop Friday

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12 h. ago Trump administration shuts down national database documenting police misconduct

Database, first proposed by Trump in 2020 and created by Biden administration in 2023, is now offlineDonald Trump’s second presidential administration shut down a national database that tracked misconduct by federal police, a resource that policing reform advocates hailed as essential to prevent officers with misconduct records from being able to move undetected between agencies.The National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD), which stored police records documenting misconduct, is now unavailable, the Washington Post first reported. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago 2 police officers killed during traffic stop in Virginia Beach

Law enforcement officials say two police officers in Virginia have been shot and killed during a traffic stop

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13 h. ago Police officer caught removing burglar’s tag in secret sexual relationship

Natasha Conneely’s ‘entirely selfish’ actions risked leaving known burglar free to commit further crimes, Bedfordshire Police says

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13 h. ago Police Scotland officer suspended after 'attempting to bring drugs' into darts event

It is understood that the off-duty officer was searched by staff at the Ovo Hydro at the event earlier this month.

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16 h. ago Action movie labelled 'the most intriguing crime thriller' to air on BBC One

An action-packed movie branded one of 'the most intriguing crime thrillers made' is set to air on BBC One this weekend

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19 h. ago A raid and a secret tape exposed a Sicilian mafia that is shrunken, whiny and clinging on for survival | John Dickie

A historic number of arrests were made, but the days of targeted murder or massive political influence are long gonePalermo has not seen anything like it for years. Helicopters in the pre-dawn sky. Carabinieri barracks across Sicily emptied, with all 1,200 officers deployed. The Cacciatori – red-bereted shock cops – brought over from the wilds of Calabria. The Carabinieri’s own film units serving up a morning montage of flashing blue lights, balaclava-wearing officers with submachine guns, police dogs sniffing, cottage doors breaking, and burly, handcuffed men ushered into Alfa Romeos. And then, of course, in the press, the humiliating wiretaps of gangsters sharing their secrets. Cosa Nostra is back in the headlines, and back under the cosh.Italian law enforcement is good at this stuff. Not a single one of the 181 men and women targeted for arrest on 11 February managed to go on the lam before the crackdown. Based on the numbers alone, this raid was the biggest anti-mafia operation ...

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21 h. ago Why it's important to remember Scotland's police officers, nurses and social workers are real

Emergency service personal and other public sector workers do difficult jobs for relatively low levels of pay and save countless lives

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30 h. ago Three shot and killed outside Louisville motor vehicle office, police say

Police in Louisville say three people were shot and killed outside a motor vehicle office

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32 h. ago Three people killed in Louisville, Kentucky, motor vehicle office shooting

One person was dead at the scene and two others died at the hospital; no reported arrests nor information on the shooterThree people were shot and killed at a motor vehicle office in Louisville, Kentucky, on Friday, police said.Major Donald Boeckman of Louisville metro police department told reporters that officers found one person dead at the scene and another two wounded. The two wounded were taken to hospitals and died there. He said there was no ongoing threat to public. Continue reading...

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