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Srinagar, March 16 (IANS) Two people were killed and four others injured when separatist guerrillas attacked a police patrol in north Kashmir’s Sopore town Tuesday evening, officials said.
A civilian and a policeman were killed, while three civilians and a policeman were wounded in the attack that took place in Sopore town, 54 km from here.
‘Militants [...]

London, March 17 (ANI): Marium Varinauskas, a Lithuanian, has been fined 600 pounds for assaulting a female police officer with his genitals.
The Aberdeen Sheriff Court was told the 28-year-old tried to strike the female cop, who cannot be named for legal reasons, on her head after she was called out to a disturbance at his [...]

London, Sep.17 (ANI): A Sikh policeman has revealed how he felt like a character from TV’s Only Fools And Horses when his bosses asked him to wear a “crash turban” helmet.

Police Constable Gurmeal Singh, 31, was asked to remove his turban by Greater Manchester Police, who told [...]

London, July 28 (ANI): A Brit Sikh policewoman is expected to win a five-figure payout after an employment tribunal ruled that she had suffered racist and religious humiliation at the hands of her trainer.

According to the Daily Express, Amandeep Kaur Grewal has claimed that she was singled out for unfair criticism and treatment because of [...]

The bullet-proof jacket that apparently failed to save the life of Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare and CCTV pictures of a hapless Railway constable struggling to shoot at Ajmal Amir Kasab and Abu Ismail from his jammed carbine at CST station may be two among the more well-known instances where equipment used by security [...]

Quetta, Apr. 13 (ANI): One police constable has been killed and several others were injured in rampant riots that erupted in Balochistan following the murder of three Baloch nationalist leaders.

Banks, vehicles and government offices were set on fire [...]

A policeman has been suspended after being caught on camera pushing a newspaper seller, who later died, to the ground during the G20 protests.
The officer came forward to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which is investigating the death of Ian Tomlinson.
The 47-year-old apparently suffered a heart attack during demonstrations near the Bank of England [...]

MUMBAI: Shabnam Mulani, a 39-year-old police constable in Mumbai, is not taking no for an answer and has moved the Bombay high court to challenge
the “discriminatory, draconian and highly irrational” rule introduced by the Bar Counil of India to bar anyone over 30 years of age from studying law in India.
Hers is the second [...]

London – A teenager accused of the murder of a police officer in Northern Ireland just over a fortnight ago was armed with an assault rifle and more than 25 bullets, a court was told Tuesday.
The 17-year-old boy became the first person to be charged late Monday in connection with the recent upsurge of [...]

Lahore, Mar.16 (ANI): Mukhtaran Mai, the woman who was gang-raped by tribals in 2002 for seeking to safe her brother from radical Islamic justice, has married a police constable from her native village in Muzaffargarh, a private TV channel reported on Sunday.

According to [...]

London – Three more arrests were made Saturday in the hunt for the killers of two British soldiers and a policeman in Northern Ireland, police said.
The latest arrests in Armagh and near Londonderry – of men aged 41, 32 and 21 – related to the killing of two British soldiers in an attack outside Massereene [...]

London – Three more arrests were made Saturday in the hunt for the killers of two British soldiers and a policeman in Northern Ireland, local media reports said.
The latest arrests – of men aged 41, 32 and 21 – related to the killing of two British soldiers in an attack outside Massereene barracks in county [...]

Berlin – German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed concern Tuesday following the previous night’s murder of a police officer in Northern Ireland.
Of the shooting, which claimed the third victim within 48 hours in a new wave of terrorist violence in Northern Ireland, Steinmeier told journalists it gave him cause for “great concern.”
It was important, Steinmeier [...]

London – The worst fears of a resurgence of terrorist violence in Northern Ireland appeared to be confirmed Tuesday when dissident Republicans claimed responsibility for the murder of a police officer – just 48 hours after two British soldiers were gunned down in the province.
As political leaders vowed to stop the murders from destroying the [...]

London, Feb.5 (ANI): British police officers have been warned not to have shandy while on duty, saying it will invite disciplinary action against them.

The top brass has said that officers seen drinking it by the public “would create the wrong impression”.

According to the Daily Express, Leicestershire Police ordered the booze ban after a senior officer [...]