Cops miss gang by 3 min
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POLICE in Northern Ireland narrowly missed catching red-handed the gang responsible for the biggest cash robbery in history, it emerged tonight.
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Armed robbers escape by arrangement with police after two-day siege, but then turn themselves in
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Detectives hunting the gang behind Britain&#39;s biggest bank robbery were today investigating potentially embarrassing reports that police were alerted to the raid while it was still in progress.
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The difference between the defending N.B.A. champions and the Knicks league seemed remarkably small at times Friday evening. But the true gap showed up in the final seconds of a tight game.
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More than three days after French police lost a packet of plastic explosives on a flight out of Paris, it apparently still has not been detected, wherever it was going.
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Riot police wearing plastic helmets and Terminator-style body armor slashed the air with batons and parried imaginary blows with plexiglass shields. Others thrust out their arms and legs in martial arts training reminiscent of a Jackie Chan movie. At the pistol range, police in black fatigues blasted holes in human silhouettes at 30 yards.
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Police said officers shot three people outside a Queens nightclub early Saturday morning, and one was unlikely to survive.
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A spray used by the police to stop aggressors in their tracks is more harmful than previously thought.
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Seven helicopter gunships skirted the steep mountainsides, then quickly descended on a cocaine lab, marked by a smoke grenade thrown by one of the raiders. As the heavily armed anti-narcotics police jumped from the hovering craft, accompanied by an informant wearing a ski mask, peasants who worked the coca fields and in the complex scampered away.
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On August 20, a riot was narrowly averted at a protest in Montebello, Quebec, when an alert and observant protester noticed that three masked men seemed out of place among the crowd - one of them carried a fist-sized rock and refused to put it down when repeatedly asked.  The men refused to unmask or identify themselves.  Eventually, the three masked men rushed the police line and were seemingly arrested.  Allegations immediately surfaced that the men were undercover police officers.  These allegations were later confirmed, as the Quebec police admitted that the three masked men were, in fact, police officers.
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Police hope surveillance cameras will let them respond faster, catch suspects before they flee.
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A huge police operation leads to the arrest of nearly 80 alleged mafiosi and brings an old gang war to light
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Three others injured after police mistake group for armed robbers as they film a crime drama
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Police officers urgently called for medical help and additional personnel seconds after an elderly woman was killed in a shootout with narcotics officers, according to recordings of police radio traffic obtained by The Associated Press on Friday.
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PHOENIX - Two Phoenix police officers were killed and a third wounded Saturday night during a shootout at an apartment complex, authorities said.    The man believed to have shot the officers was found dead following a two-hour stand off with police...
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Two Iraqi policemen were killed, 14 wounded and at least 36 were missing after an ambush while they were on their way to Baghdad from southern Iraq on Thursday, police said.
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With officers like these on the beat, we might feel safe. But they're not targeting the dangerous criminals now terrorising our streets. The simulated shoot-out was part of training to deal with biological or chemical terrorist threats.  (c) 2006 Daily Mirror.