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Technology

TASER Wins Bid to Outfit 22,000 London Police Officers with Body Cameras

Led by the Mayor’s Office of Policing and Crime (MOPAC), the Metropolitan Police completed a 12-month pilot earlier this year using 1,000 of TASER's Axon body-worn cameras. The world’s largest trial of body cameras to date was considered a success and a research study conducted by MOPAC and the College of Policing found that introducing the cameras resulted in a 33-percent reduction in complaints against officers.

November 27, 2015

Weapons

UK Police Don't Have the Guns to Protect Citizens, Says Local Police Commissioner

When an Islamist outrage occurs on UK soil, as it inevitably will, our forces may have neither the firepower nor the numbers to overwhelm the terrorists quickly before mayhem occurs.

November 20, 2015

Special Units

Russia Sends Puppy to France After K-9 Killed During Raid on Terrorist's Hideout

Russia has shown its solidarity with the people of France in an unusual way - by donating a new puppy to carry on the memory of Diesel, the police dog killed by a suicide bomber on Wednesday.

November 20, 2015

Training

LAPD Heads to Paris to Learn from Terrorist Tragedy

Hoping to learn about ways to prevent and respond to terrorist attacks, the Los Angeles Police Department will send a team to Paris to meet with authorities there as they continue to carry out raids on suspected terror cells in response to the attacks that left 129 people dead.

November 20, 2015

Patrol

Dozens Dead in Apparent Terrorist Attacks in Paris

At least 43 people are confirmed dead after a series of what appear to be coordinated attacks across Paris, France, late Friday. Police stormed a concert hall, ending the hostage situation there .

November 13, 2015

Technology

RapidHit DNA Profile Identifies Dangerous UK Sex Offender While Suspect in Custody

The RapidHit System from Integenx delivered a stunning arrest in the United Kingdom last week. A suspect was arrested for a minor crime and swabbed for a DNA reference sample while in custody. His DNA profile was generated in less than two hours using the RapidHit System and the suspect's profile immediately matched with a DNA profile recovered from a serious sexual assault case. The suspect pleaded guilty while still in custody.

August 24, 2015

Technology

Rapid DNA Results Uploaded for First Time to UK's National DNA Database

Integenx has announced that a second major national database, The National DNA Database (NDNAD), has had forensic DNA profiles uploaded from the RapidHit System. The NDNAD was established in the United Kingdom in 1995. Currently, more than five million forensic DNA profiles have been uploaded into NDNAD.

August 14, 2015

Patrol

Video: Brazilian Officer Killed in Bike Crash at World Police and Fire Games

Fighting tears at a vigil Friday evening, teammates remembered a police investigator from Brazil who was killed in a bicycle collision at the World Police and Fire Games in Fairfax County, Va., Thursday.

July 6, 2015

Patrol

Swedish Police Officers on Vacation Break Up Fight in New York City

Four Swedish police officers took a break from their New York vacation to answer the call of duty Wednesday, breaking up an out-of-control fight between two homeless men on a Manhattan subway train.

April 22, 2015

Patrol

ISIS-Inspired Terror Plot Targeted Australian Police

“At this stage, we have no information that it was a planned beheading,” a terrorism expert for Australia's federal police said. “But there was reference to an attack on police. Some evidence that we have collected at a couple of the scenes, and some other information we have, leads us to believe that this particular matter was ISIS-inspired.”

April 19, 2015

Special Units

Mexico Gang Kills 15 Police in Worst Attack in Years

Fifteen police officers were killed in a gang ambush in western Mexico, an official said, marking the deadliest day in recent years for security forces battling the drug war.

April 9, 2015

Special Units

Dog Follows Cops' Orders, Lies Down With Owner After Drug Bust

An alleged drug dealer's dog decided he had no bones to pick with Brazilian cops during a bust – lying down alongside the suspects ready to be thrown in the pound.

April 6, 2015