Police brutality allegedly still goes largely unreported, while observers note that defendants are often beaten to extract confessions and are denied visits from relatives and lawyers.

In modern firearms terminology this is often called a " New York reload " after the practice of New York Police Department officers carrying second ( and even third ) guns as backup.

The A. D. Police are offered a great deal of leeway in their activities, often blockading large sections of the city and causing great amounts of property damage in the course of fulfilling their duty.

The term Greater London was in use before 1965 to refer to a variously defined area, larger than the County of London and often similar to the Metropolitan Police District.

The National Police of Peru is often classified as a part of the armed forces.

Police forces are often defined as being separate from military or other organizations involved in the defense of the state against foreign aggressors ; however, gendarmerie and military police are military units charged with civil policing.

These police are often referred to as " Bobbies " or " Peelers " after Sir Robert ( Bobby ) Peel, who introduced the Police Act.

Police officers often carry handcuffs to restrain suspects.

Race teams were often caught trying to use factory produced racing parts that were not really available to the public, though many parts passed muster by being labeled as heavy-duty " Police " parts.

* Police or regulators cannot initiate complaints under criminal law but can only investigate ( prosecution is mostly reserved for the Crown Prosecution Service ), which prevents selective enforcement, e. g. the ' fishing expedition ' which is often specifically forbidden.

Police officers often patrol the parking lot of a convenience store, especially after the closing time of bars to apprehend drunk drivers.

Police lineups, where the eyewitness picks out a suspect from a group of people in the police station, are often grossly suggestive, and give the false impression that the witness remembered the suspect.

In the United States, ambulance service provided by a local government are often referred to as " third service " EMS ( the Fire Department, Police Department, and separate EMS forming an emergency services trio ) by the employees of said service, as well as other city officials and residents.

The quality and capability of a Police Department has often been demonstrated by its leadership.

When the Police have concluded their investigation a decision on whether to charge somebody with a criminal offence will often be made by prosecuting counsel having considered the evidence produced by the Police.

Police were often required in the tower blocks, but their infrequent presence did little to pacify towers rife with delinquency.

The Henderson Police Department for years referred to Lake Mead Parkway ( and its former name Lake Mead Drive ) as " 146 ", while Boulder Highway is often referred as " 93 ", its former highway designation.

Police often raided these events.

Police often train to recover hostages taken by force, as in this exercise

Many early Black Flag shows ended in violence, often involving the Los Angeles Police Department.

The creation, in March 1794, of a " General Police Bureau " – reporting nominally to the Committee of Public Safety, but more often directly to Robespierre and his closest ally, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just – served to increase the power of the Committee of Public Safety, and of Robespierre himself.

Unable to commit her time to the often lengthy run of a play, Johnson preferred the less time-consuming schedules of film and radio, that allowed her to devote time to her family, and her work for the Women's Auxiliary Police Corps.

During Apartheid, the South African Police Services Special Branch was a much feared police unit often used to attack movements resisting apartheid.

Police officers and court officials have a general power to use force for the purpose of performing an arrest or generally carrying out their official duties.

Police have subsequently been accused of brutality, torture and interference with the non-violent protests as a collateral damage provoked by the clash between the law enforcement ranks themselves and the more violent and brutal fringes of protesters, who repeatedly hid themselves amongst peaceful protesters of all ages and backgrounds.

The A. D. Police are an elite group of highly trained and specially equipped police officers, who have been formed to deal with terrorist activities and Boomer crimes in the city of Mega Tokyo.

Targets of the CIRA have included the British military, the Northern Ireland police service ( Royal Ulster Constabulary, Police Service of Northern Ireland ) and Ulster loyalist paramilitaries.

Police believed the boys were assaulted and killed at the location where they were found ; critics argued that the assault, at least, was unlikely to have occurred at the creek.

Police heard rumors that the young lovers had planned to have a child and sacrifice the infant ; based on this story, they had Echols institutionalized for psychiatric evaluation.

These international troops have been criticized for cooperating with rebel forces, refusing to disarm them, and integrating former military and death-squad ( FRAPH ) members into the re-militarized Haitian National Police force following the coup.

Police unions in both Minnesota and California have protested the arrangement, stating that they believe her parole should be served in California, where her crimes were committed.

Police are not required to explain that this right is not merely a right to have a lawyer present while the suspect is being questioned.

The Nigeria Police Force and troops have served in places like UNIPOM ( UN India-Pakistan Observer mission ) 1965, UNIFIL in Lebanon 1978, the UN observer mission, UNIIMOG supervising the Iran-Iraq ceasefire in 1988, former Yugoslavia 1998, East Timor 1999, and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( MONUC ) 2004.

British police officers are governed by similar rules, such as those introduced to England and Wales under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ( PACE ), but generally have greater powers.

Since his death, there have been persistent unproven allegations that Askin, allegedly assisted by then Police Commissioner Norman Allan, oversaw the creation of a lucrative network of corruption and bribery that involved politicians, public servants and police and the nascent Sydney organised crime syndicates.

The Basque Country, Catalonia and Navarre have their own police forces ( Ertzaintza, Mossos d ' Esquadra and the Chartered Police respectively ) while the National Police Corps operates in the rest of the autonomous communities.

* China: Police have begun using a locally made analogue of the Segway to patrol certain public areas, such as Tian ' anmen square.

Having returned to the yard, Denby Transport was formally notified by Police and VOSA that the lorry could not be used while the Eco-Link, or any other B-Train, have since not been permnitted on UK roads.

The United States Capitol Police have also installed checkpoints to inspect vehicles at specific locations around Capitol Hill, and have closed a section of one street indefinitely.

Separately Paramilitary Police have been reported.

Police have said they do not know why Versace was killed.

Four men, Samuel Millar, Father Patrick Moloney, former Rochester Police officer Thomas O ' Connor, and Charles McCormick, all of whom have ties to the Provisional Irish Republican Army, are accused.

* June 20 – Police in Algiers break up demonstrations by people who have taken to the streets chanting slogans in support of deposed President Ben Bella.

The sovereign will also hold an audience with the appointee and will at that time induct both the governor general-designate and his or her spouse into the Order of Canada as Companions, as well as appointing the former as a Commander of both the Order of Military Merit and the Order of Merit of the Police Forces ( should either person not have already received either of those honours ).

Police also suggested that Joseph Lolordo could have been one of the killers, because of his brother Pasqualino's recent murder by the North Side Gang.