Mexican Police Fail in Televised Cop Lynching
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Mexican police admitted on Wednesday they were powerless to prevent an angry mob lynching two of their officers, in a gruesome attack that shocked even this crime-hardened nation.
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A police officer was killed Friday when fans rioted at a Serie A game between Sicilian sides Catania and Palermo, prompting the Italian soccer federation to postpone all league matches this weekend and cancel next week's national team exhibition game against Romania.
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MULTAN, Pakistan: Four police officers have been sacked for failing to arrest enough suspects after the rape of four young girls in a small town in Pakistan&#39;s eastern Punjab province, a police official said yesterday.
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Mexican President Vicente Fox fired  the capital city's police chief on Monday after a mob beat and  burned to death two officers and critically injured a third  last month.
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Gunmen killed the police chief of the central Mexican state of Hidalgo on Wednesday, the state attorney general's office said, the second high-profile police murder by drug hitmen in less than a week.
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The off-duty police officer who was shot and killed by other officers in White Plains on Friday was trying to break up a fight but failed to drop his gun when ordered to do so, two witnesses said.
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OAXACA, Mexico  - Federal riot police ended their weeks-long occupation of the center of the Mexican tourist city Oaxaca on Saturday, having weakened a protest movement trying to oust a state governor.
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Gunmen belonging to a nationalist group that seized a police station in remote southern Peru ambushed a police vehicle on Sunday, killing four officers and wounding several more, hospital officials said. One gunman was gravely wounded.
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Police Chief William Bratton on Tuesday faulted his department for using poor communication and planning at a May Day immigration rally where officers fired rubber bullets and swung batons to disperse a crowd of demonstrators and journalists.
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ACAPULCO, Mexico  - Three police officers and a  youth were shot to death in the Mexican resort of Acapulco on  Saturday in violence authorities said could be linked to  Sunday's local elections.
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Assailants shot dead four police officers in the western Mexican city of Aguascalientes on Thursday, the latest in a wave of slayings of law enforcement officers across Mexico.
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LIMA, Peru  - Five police officers died on Sunday  in a shootout with supporters of an ex-soldier who took over a  police station in a southern Peru early on New Year's Day and  took 10 police hostage, RPP radio reported.
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Gunmen shot and killed three Tijuana police officers in a night of bloody violence just south of the border with California, Mexican officials said Tuesday.
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Mexican police arrested dozens of people in a raid on a town where a frenzied mob beat and burned two federal police officers to death in an attack that shocked even this crime-hardened nation.
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Israel's police commander resigned Sunday after a government commission said he ignored ties between senior officers and underworld figures and failed to ensure a thorough investigation into the 1999 killing of a suspected crime boss.
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A police chief and a councilman were shot and killed Thursday in a Mexican border state where drug-fueled violence has increased and a string of law enforcement officers have been killed.
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MEXICO CITY - Investigators have identified at least six people who were part of a mob that burned two policemen to death, the federal attorney general said Thursday.