Policemen have been showing off their strength by breaking blocks of concrete at a ceremony to commemorate the founding of Indonesia’s national police (Polri). Participants were pictured in impressive displays of physical force, smashing concrete with their elbows and foreheads, in Banda Aceh. The festivities come as part of Bhayangkara Day on July 1, which celebrates its 78th anniversary this year, and honours […]
Two Waterloo Police Department officers were shot Sunday morning, and police shot and killed the man involved, according to a police department news release. Police had responded to a report of a man with a gun in the 200 block of Manson Street at about 8:22 a.m., police said. The shootings happened in the 1200 […]
Two police officers suffered serious head injuries as they escorted a politician through a throng of activists protesting against a congress held by the far-right Alternative for Germany in the western city of Essen. Unknown assailants kicked the officers in the head after forcing them to the ground, a police statement said. They were taken […]
A Texas man pleaded guilty on Friday to assaulting officers at the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, the United States Attorney’s Office District of Columbia announced in a news release. Kyle Douglas McMahan, 42, of Watauga, pleaded guilty to assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers — a felony. He will learn his sentence on Sept. […]
Colette Peters, the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 13, 2023, that conditions in federal prisons have improved in the past year (Caspar Benson/Getty Images). Four former Missouri correctional officers face murder charges and a fifth is charged with involuntary manslaughter for the December death […]
A man accused of shooting at Springfield officers has been convicted. A Clark County jury convicted Laurence Thompson of felonious assault charges, according to Clark County Prosecutor Daniel Driscoll. On Aug. 10, 2022, two Springfield officers responded to a call on Lagonda Avenue. > Investigation of serious motorcycle crash is keeping road in Huber Heights […]
DuPage County prosecutors will not bring criminal charges against the Carol Stream police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a west suburban man earlier this year, State’s Attorney Robert Berlin announced Wednesday. Isaac Goodlow III, 30, died Feb. 3 after Carol Stream police officers entered his apartment in response to a domestic violence call […]
Fresno Police Chief Juan F. “Paco” Balderrama has resigned following an investigation into an alleged affair with an officer’s wife. “It is with a heavy heart and mixed feelings that we announce today the resignation of Fresno Police Department Chief Balderrama from the city of Fresno,” said Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer at a press conference […]
Dayton police are searching for the person or people responsible for a mass shooting early Monday morning. We will update this story today on News Center 7 at 5 pm. >>PHOTOS: Officers investigating after shooting in Dayton As reported Monday on News Center 7′s at 5, Dayton Police officers and medics were dispatched to the […]
Jun. 24—OGDENSBURG — Seven Ogdensburg police personnel who were at the building when an officer was shot by another officer during a shift change on June 20 at the city police station were allowed to return to work after being cleared by investigators, according to Police Chief Mark T. Kearns. Kearns said in a statement […]
UPDATE @ 8:30 a.m. A police investigation has closed a busy Miamisburg street Monday morning. >>1 dead, 7 hurt after shooting at large gathering in Dayton Miamisburg police officers were dispatched at around 4:17 a.m. to the 200 block of E. Central Avenue on initial reports that a man was breaking out windows from inside […]
More than 15 police officers and several civilians, including an Orthodox priest, have been killed by armed militants in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan, its governor Sergei Melikov said in a video statement. The gunmen opened fire on two Orthodox churches, a synagogue and a police post in two cities on Sunday, according to the […]