On 5 December 2010 the Sunday Telegraph reported that the NRL was investigating the business relationships Russell Crowe has with a number of media and entertainment companies in relation to the South Sydney Rabbitohs ' salary cap.

On the program, which debuted on December 2, 2009, Ventura travels the country, investigating cases and getting input from believers and skeptics before passing judgment on a theory's validity.

By late 1989, federal officials had been investigating Barry for six years on suspicion of illegal drug possession and use ; that fall, they were able to make cases against several of Barry's associates for past cocaine use, including Charles Lewis – a native of the U. S. Virgin Islands who was implicated in a drug investigation involving Barry and a room at Washington ’ s Ramada Inn in December 1988 – and a former girlfriend, ex-model Rasheeda Moore.

In December 1989, he became a member of a special SED party session investigating official corruption and abuse of power.

On 27 December 2005, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced it was investigating Liberal Finance Minister Ralph Goodale's office for potentially engaging in insider trading before making an important announcement on the taxation of income trusts.

It was revealed on 23 December 2005 that Auditor-General Eroni Vatuloka was investigating a complaint from Prime Minister Qarase, accusing Chaudhry of abuse of office.

In December 2005 it contained only Google ads, with a notice that a site for investigating people by checking their public records would be coming.

An investigating judge said that Gomes had not provided any proof for his claim of Vieira's involvement, and on 20 December 2007 it was announced that Gomes had been charged with false testimony and slandering the head of state.

On December 2, 1954, Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin was censured by the United States Senate for failing to cooperate with the subcommittee that was investigating him, and for insults to the committee that was trying to censure him.

On December 17, 2008, the Boston Globe confirmed that the State investigations were being joined by a Federal Grand Jury probe investigating the allegations and potential violations of Federal law.

In December 2009, Fantino was accused during a related court case of having " unplugged " a special task force investigating corruption charges against the Toronto Police Service's narcotics squad ignoring the task force's suspicions that another of the force's drug squads was corrupt.

On 26 December 26, 2005, Russian prosecutors investigating the siege on the school declared that authorities had made no mistakes whatsoever.

An article published in the 5 December 2005, Washington Post reported that the CIA's Inspector General was investigating what it calls erroneous renditions.

On December 15, while investigating one of the lower levels of a mine, there was a cave-in.

In December 2004, the CEO, Russell Jones, resigned on the request of the board after press reports revealed that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission was investigating the company for engaging in cartel practices.

On April 14, 2010, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that “ About 10 percent of Cuyahoga County ’ s voting machines … failed a pre-election test .” After 20 months of investigating the DS200 Precinct Count Optical Scanner in the EAC-certified Unity 3. 2. 0. 0 voting system, on December 22, 2011 the Election Assistance Commission recommended decertification of the ES & S voting machine if it cannot be fixed.

By 1991, Murray was investigating the possibility of building a new stadium for Sunderland to replace ageing Roker Park ; after plans to build a stadium near the Nissan car factory failed, he turned his attention to the former Monkwearmouth colliery site on the banks of the River Wear, which became available with the colliery's closure in December 1993.

In December 1994, the Research Libraries Group ( RLG ) and Commission on Preservation and Access ( CPA ) formed a Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information with the main purpose of investigating what needed to be done to ensure long-term preservation and continued access to the digital records.

The US Sci Fi Channel acquired the original recording, which documents Halt and his patrol investigating a UFO sighting in Rendlesham Forest in December 1980.

On December 19, 1931, Karpis and Fred Barker killed Sheriff C. Roy Kelley, who was investigating their robbery of a store in West Plains, Missouri.

The following year, he appeared as counsel for the Skull Creek Aboriginal Community in the Laverton Royal Commission investigating the clashes between police and Aboriginal people at Laverton and Skull Creek in December 1974 and January 1975.

He also testified before the commission investigating the Santiago campaign and was given temporary command of the IVth Corps in Huntsville on December 22.

In December, the Norwegian Competition Authority started investigating Scandinavian Airlines for illegal price dumping on the Oslo – Haugesund route.

In late 1952, he was called before a Grand Jury in New York ( presided over by Senator Herbert O ' Conor ) and then before the McCarran Committee on December 1, 1952, both of which were investigating alleged Communist affiliations of U. S. citizens working for the United Nations and other international organizations.

When the first meeting of the Fourth Duma was convened in late 1912, only one out of six Bolshevik deputies, Matvei Muranov, ( another one, Roman Malinovsky, was later exposed as an Okhrana secret police agent ) voted to break away from the Menshevik faction within the Duma on 15 December 1912.

Since the death of Medellín cartel leader Pablo Escobar in a police shootout during December 1993, indiscriminate acts of violence associated with that organization have abated as the " cartels " have broken up into multiple, smaller and often-competing trafficking organizations.

Following the occupation of Luxembourg by Germany on the 10 May 1940, recruitment for the Company of Volunteers continued until the 4 December 1940 when they were moved to Weimar in Germany to be trained as German police.

On 6 December 1933 the first purported photograph of the monster, taken by Hugh Gray, was published in the Daily Express, and shortly after the creature received official notice when the Secretary of State for Scotland ordered the police to prevent any attacks on it.

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (; ; 29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953 ) was a Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus ( NKVD ) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and Deputy Premier in the postwar years ( 1946 – 1953 ).

In December 2010, Spanish and Thai police uncovered another passport forgery scheme attributed to LTTE.

Charlestown Police Station, which served as the Headquarters for police officers in Nevis, was destroyed by fire in December 1991.

On 21 December 2008, The FARC-EP announced that they would release civilian hostages Alan Jara, Sigifredo López, three low-ranking police officers and a low-ranking soldier to Senator Piedad Córdoba as a humanitarian gesture.

The first police academy to be built in Somalia for several years opened on 20 December 2005 at Armo, 100 kilometres south of Bosaso.

* December 4 – Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot dead in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.

* December 30 – The Linwood bank robbery leaves two police officers dead.

In the Pacific, on December 28 – " Black Saturday " in Samoa – New Zealand colonial police killed 11 unarmed demonstrators, an event which led the Mau movement to demand independence for Samoa.

* December 28 – " Black Saturday " in Samoa: New Zealand colonial police kill 11 unarmed demonstrators, an event which leads the Mau movement to demand independence for Samoa.

* December 15 – Drug baron José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha is killed by Colombian police.

* December 1 – Under the County and Borough Police Act, in any county or area of England and Wales where a police force has not already been established, the Justices of the Peace must from this date take steps to create one according to nationally defined standards.

In December 2008, the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo ( EULEX ) assumed most of UNMIK's roles, assisting and supporting the Kosovo authorities in the rule of law area, specifically in the police, judiciary and customs areas.

* December 28: a soldier and a border police officer killed while dismantling a road-side bomb, by another explosive device, in the Gaza strip.

On December 21, 1971, Shakur was named as one of four suspects by New York City police in a hand grenade attack that destroyed a police car and slightly injured two patrolmen in Maspeth, Queens ; a 13-state alarm was issued three days after the attack when a witness identified Shakur and Andrew Jackson from FBI photographs.

In December 2010, police arrested Yamaguchi-gumi's alleged number three leader, Tadashi Irie.

In Taiwan, a newspaper article headlined " Group urges more support for Prader-Willi sufferers " appeared in English in the Taipei Times in December 2011, highlighting a recent tragedy in which a taxi cab driver killed himself and his nine-year-old daughter who had the disease in what police called a probable murder-suicide.

Marvin Davis and his military police unit arrived at the site from Los Alamos on December 30, 1944.

17N's repeated claims of responsibility were ignored until December 1976, when it murdered the former intelligence chief of the Greek security police, Evangelos Mallios and left its proclamation at the scene.

* Shortly before midnight on December 15, 1969, the Italian anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli was seen falling to his death from a fourth floor window of the Milan police station.

In December 2011 TMZ reported that Jesse Ventura was pulled over for tailgating another vehicle in the San Fernando Valley while on his way to the airport and that the police officers who pulled him over let him go with a warning.