As more criminals take to the Internet to search for victims, local police departments are being asked to do more in the world of cyber crime. Easton police recently arrested a man for allegedly running an online real estate scam. “This is the first of this type of crime that…
Report: Detroit police making progress toward reforms
By Robert Snell The Detroit News DETROIT — Detroit police have complied with 83 percent of federal court orders relating to use of force and inmate treatment, the department's federal monitor said in a new progress report Thursday. The report, filed in federal court, shows continued improvement after nine years…
Met Police staff guilty of stealing stolen iPods, Satnavs, smartphones
A member of police staff at the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has pleaded guilty to the theft of stolen property, including mobile phones, Apple iPods and satellite navigation systems. Some of the stolen electrical goods contained personal data, the MPS said. It insisted, however, that the force has “rigorous” procedures…
Metropolitan Police charges teenager for Anti-Terrorist Hotline attack
The Metropolitan Police have charged a 17-year-old for the series of prank phones calls and denial-of-service attacks directed toward the police’s Anti-Terrorist Hotline. The teenager, from Birmingham, was charged in Westminster Magistrates’ Court on April 14 with one count of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance and with one count…
Police Limit Comic: April 15, 2012
Author: Garey McKee Police Limit Comic is published on PoliceOne every Sunday. For more than a decade, the strip's cast of unnamed characters has been constantly struggling with stresses, not only from the criminal element on the street, but also from the upper echelons of the police department's top brass,…
VERONA: Burglary, brush fire, fraud, property damage bring out Verona Police
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Saturday’s police log: Hawthorne, Lawndale and Gardena
| POLICE NEWS | BLOG: SOUTH BAY CRIME, COURT NEWS | FACEBOOK Hawthorne 1. Robbery. 11 a.m. April 7, 4000 block of Imperial Highway. The two victims were walking when a person ran up from behind, demanded a cellphone from one of the victims, snatched a cellphone, causing a wound…
Police: Man with plunger tries to rob NY bank
Associated Press UTICA, N.Y. — Police say a 49-year-old man tried to rob a central New York bank armed with a toilet plunger. Utica police tell local media outlets that Lawrence Deptola went into city bank Thursday afternoon and threatened a teller with the plunger. Police responded after two other…
MORRISVILLE BOROUGH POLICE REPORT: Juveniles steal BMX bike, vehicles damaged by BB pellets, arrests made for fraud …
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Police: Ind. man shot marshal before being killed
By Dominic Adams Fort Wayne Journal Gazette FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Federal agents knew Marcus Hayden was in an apartment in the 1300 block of Greene Street late Monday, and they moved in to arrest him. After announcing their presence and demanding he come out, police broke down the door…
