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| | BIGpedia - Police - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
 | | Police are also responsible for reporting minor offences by issuing citations which typically may result in the imposition of fines, particularly for violations of traffic law. | | | Police in the United States usually carry a pistol (Glocks and Sig-Sauers are the most common) and an impact weapon, a baton also known as a "nightstick". | | | Police organizations also must sometimes deal with the issue of police corruption which is often abetted by a code of silence that encourages unquestioning loyalty to one's comrades over the cause of justice. |
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| | Human Right Abuses by Hong Kong Police - encyclopedia article about Human Right Abuses by Hong Kong Police. |
| | The authority is a committee with representatives nominated by the local authorities or authority, independent members, and magistrates. | | | While the official mission of Independent Police Complaints Council (IPCC) is to independently review every case handled by, in fact it only acts as a de facto rubber stamp - it has no investigative power, nor can it even hear appeals to CAPO rulings. | | | According to the National Security (Legistlation Provisions) Bill, a police officer of or above the rank of Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) are granted powers of searching without a warrant under some circumstances. |
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| | Casebook: Jack the Ripper - The Police Encyclopedia: Volume IV |
| | Detractors of the work of our British Police in bringing criminals to justice generally ignore the important distinction between moral proof and legal evidence of guilt. | | | A great deal of mystery still hangs about these horrible Ripper outrages, although in a letter which I have just received from Sir Robert Anderson, he intimates that the police knew well enough at the time who the miscreant was, although, unfortunately, they had not sufficient legal evidence to warrant them laying hands upon him. | | | Despite the lucubration of many an amateur `Sherlock Holmes,' there was no doubt whatever as to the identity of the criminal, and if our 'detectives' possessed the powers, and might have recourse to the methods, of Foreign Police Forces he would have been brought to justice. |
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| | James Randi Educational Foundation — An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural |
| | There is no recorded instance in England of any psychic solving a criminal case or providing evidence or information that led directly to its solution. | | | Bob Baxter, chief press officer for the West Yorkshire police, made a statement about the hundreds of persons who offered clues in the Yorkshire Ripper case: | | | The police, by the very nature of their duties, must choose to record any volunteered information. |
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| | World Police Encyclopedia |
| | Police use of firearms including laws, regulations, traditions, and limitations | | | Police public projects such as crime prevention, school programs, and traffic control | | | The World Police Encyclopedia fulfills this need by providing a systematic survey of the police systems of all the member nations in the United Nations and Taiwan. |
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