Some states put untrained cops on duty
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Four months into his job, a police officer in Mississippi holds a gun to the head of an unarmed teenager and puts him in a chokehold. A rookie officer in Illinois gets into a car chase that kills a driver. And a new campus policeman in Indiana shoots an unarmed student to death.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian police sleeping on the job? Maybe, just don't tell the whole country about it.
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Though laws in every state say government records and meetings must be open to all, reality often falls far short: Laws are sporadically enforced, penalties for failure to comply are mild and violators almost always walk away with nothing more than a reprimand, an Associated Press survey of all 50 states has found.
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The American-trained police force in Afghanistan is not effectively prepared and is incapable of carrying out routine law enforcement duties, a U.S. government report found.
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The federal police force responsible for protecting the Washington Monument, the Statue of Liberty and other national icons is understaffed, under-equipped, under-trained and demoralized, according to a stinging assessment that echoes earlier studies.
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About 300 Afghan police officers have been killed in the past three months, making 2007 the worst year ever for the country's undertrained, underpaid police force.
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Some Welsh police forces are not following recommended driver training programmes, BBC Wales learns.
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Arizona and Colorado pass tough laws on misuse of uniforms. Congress may crack down on fake-badge sales.
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Police are not fully cooperating with a federal monitor appointed in the wake of riots in 2001 triggered by an officer's fatal shooting of an unarmed black man, the monitor said in a report released Monday.
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A regional police force admitted it had sent officers for Âdiversity trainingÂ to an Islamic school that the police searched Sunday.
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An unwritten rule of the road that police don't hassle fellow officers collided head on with another that says never pass a state trooper, especially on the right.
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U.S. federal agents have begun training Arizona police to enforce immigration laws in a pioneering move to combat violent smuggling networks from Mexico, police said on Monday.
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By Michael Fitzgerald, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Feb. 23--Imagine police announcing a new crime-fighting strategy: Instead of patrolling, they will send all citizens a checklist allowing them to "self-certify" they are law-abiding.
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By Tom Wilemon, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 22--BILOXI -- The Police Department has put its school resource officers and traffic-control division on regular patrol duty because of a shortage of patrol officers.
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TENINO, Wash. - It was just a little stun gun fun, but a police officer who demonstrated his Taser by zapping a willing subject in the genitals has drawn a warning from his bosses.  Officer Randy Reynolds ran into trouble when video of the incident last spring was posted on YouTube.com.
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U.S. officers charged with training Iraqi forces report widespread problems with the program, ranging from poor preparation to not having enough interpreters, The Washington Post reported in Tuesday editions.
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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.