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Area where attack took place had been tense according to the local mayor (stock image)

Dozens attack police station in Paris suburb

About 40 people armed with metal bars and using fireworks as mortars tried to storm a French police station in the Paris suburbs last night,officials said.

World • 11 Oct 20

Two scenes have been cordoned off by police (stock image)

Bones found in UK river believed to be human remains

Bags of bones which were found dumped in a river in Britain are "most likely" to be human remains, Suffolk Police have said.

UK • 28 Aug 20

People visit the Wendy's restaurant outside which Rayshard Brooks was shot dead

US officer charged with murder of Rayshard Brooks

A fired Atlanta police officer has been charged with felony murder and another officer faces lesser charges in the shooting dead last week of Rayshard Brooks in the car park of a fast-food restaurant, a Georgia county prosecutor said today.

US • 17 Jun 20

A demonstrator holds a flare during a protest of members of French police unions including Alliance Police Nationale on the Champs-Élysées

French police protest over racism stigma, chokehold ban

French police marched in protest along the Champs-Élysées boulevard to the interior ministry in Paris today, accusing the government of scapegoating law enforcement agencies as public anger over race discrimination swells.

World • 12 Jun 20

Police say baby Roman was found in a park in Newham

Photo released of baby abandoned in London park

Police in London have released an image of the newborn girl abandoned in an east London park as freezing temperatures and snow hit the city.

UK • 01 Feb 19

Police defended deploying the taser saying the woman posed a potential threat

US police chief defends use of taser on woman, 87

A US police chief has defended the use of a Taser on an 87-year-old grandmother cutting dandelions near her home in the southern state of Georgia.

US • 17 Aug 18

A police spokesman said nobody was killed in the attack

14 injured in suspected knife attack on German bus

At least 14 people have been wounded in a suspected knife attack on a bus in the northern German city of Lübeck, local media has reported.

Germany • 20 Jul 18

Brent Thompson was the first DART officer killed in the line of duty

Iraq veteran, newlywed among the dead in Dallas

Three of the five Dallas police officers killed in a sniper ambush on last night were publicly identified by officials or relatives and included a newlywed and a navy veteran of three tours in Iraq.

News • 08 Jul 16

Egyptian police officers react to the death of their colleagues at the site of the attack near Cairo

Four Egypt officers killed in attack claimed by IS

Masked gunmen on a motorcycle killed four Egyptian policemen south of Cairo, the interior ministry said, in an attack claimed by the so-called Islamic State group.

News • 28 Nov 15

Police arrived on scene to see man not breathing with the snake wrapped around his head and neck

US shop owner rescued from python attack

The owner of a US reptile shop had to be rescued by police after a six-metre long python weighing up to 57kg wrapped around him, police said.

News • 06 Oct 15

Tributes to those killed and injured have been left outside the apartment building

'Shock and disbelief' as Berkeley victims named

The deaths of six Irish people following a balcony collapse in Berkeley, California has been described as a "horrific day for those who have lost loved ones", as the names of those who died have been released.

News • 17 Jun 15

The six police officers are scheduled to be arraigned on 2 July

US police officers charged over Freddie Gray death

A grand jury in the US has returned charges against six Baltimore police officers in the death of Freddie Gray, Baltimore City State Attorney Marilyn Mosby has told a news conference.

News • 21 May 15

RSA Chairperson Liz O'Donnell said it would be vital to increase the number of officers in the Traffic Corps

RSA chief calls for more resources for policing

The head of the Road Safety Authority has called for the policing of road safety to be made a priority, and for more resources to be allocated to the Garda Traffic Corps.

News • 06 Feb 15

More than 800 police were involved in the pre-dawn security operation

Police raids in Australia after 'beheading threat'

Militants connected with the radical group calling itself the Islamic State were planning to behead a member of the public in Australia, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said.

News • 18 Sep 14

Tweet produced a flood of images of alleged police brutality and critical posts

NYPD's twitter campaign backfires

A campaign by the New York Police Department to improve communication with the public backfired after its Twitter page received thousands of negative tweets.

News • 23 Apr 14

US police officers injured in station shooting

Three officers have been injured in a shooting at a US police station, while the suspect has been shot and killed.

News • 28 Dec 12

Four NATO soldiers killed in Afghan police attack

Four soldiers fighting with the NATO-led alliance have been killed in an attack believed to involve members of the Afghan police in southern Afghanistan.

News • 16 Sep 12

South African police raid miners' hostels

South African police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse striking miners today after seizing machetes and other weapons in an early-morning raid.

News • 15 Sep 12

Norwegian police criticised in report over Breivik

A Norwegian commission has criticised police authorities for failing to take actions that could have prevented or interrupted the bomb and gun attacks by a far-right militant that killed 77 people last year.

News • 14 Aug 12

French police search Sarkozy's home and office

French police have searched Nicolas Sarkozy's offices and home as part of their probe into claims he was involved in illegal political campaign financing, his lawyer said.

News • 03 Jul 12

EU ends its mission in Bosnia after 10 years

EU ends police mission in Bosnia

A European Union police mission in Bosnia has ended after a decade of training local police forces and overseeing law enforcement agencies that were rebuilt almost from scratch after the 1992-95 war.

News • 30 Jun 12

The grave is dug ahead of the burial of Mohamed Merah

French gunman is buried in Toulouse

A gunman who killed seven people in France before police shot him dead has been buried in Toulouse.

News • 29 Mar 12

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