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The number of active criminal networks in the Stockholm region has reached 50 and more women are getting involved in organized crime, a new police report has warned.more

A knife-wielding man has killed four staff at central police headquarters in Paris, French media report.more

Thousands of French police officers have joined a "march of anger" in Paris to protest against a range of issues, including rising suicides and poor working conditions. The action marked the first mass police strike in France since 2001.more

Four Poles were detained in Sweden in connection with the trafficking of human beings - Swedish police said today. The suspects offered their countrymen a job, and in fact forced them to steal.more

A factory worker could be extradited to Poland over allegations he was involved in arranging prostitution.more

One person has died and 10 have been wounded in a violent attack at a vocational college in the Finnish city of Kuopio, police say.more

A Dallas man is accused of fatally shooting a burglar outside his Old East Dallas home Thursday and going back to bed before calling police nearly two hours later.more

Police are hunting two boys who are alleged to have carjacked a woman as she parked her car.more

A British-flagged oil tanker is leaving Iran, after being held for more than two months.more

Police have issued an appeal to help trace a Polish man last seen in Glasgow a month ago.more

Robberies are increasing at a faster rate in England and Wales than in any other major developed country, research seen by the BBC suggests.more

A new book by Mikhail Gorbachev with a kind of political will to present his vision of the 21st century, the last president of the Soviet Union before its disintegration, and with theories such as glasnost and perestroika, will be published.more

One person was killed and five others wounded on Thursday in a shooting on the streets of Washington, D.C., not far from the White House, police said. more

More than 50 firearms, nearly 2,000 rounds of ammunition, and heroin valued at £80,000 were seized in raids by police tacking a gun-smuggling gang.more

U.S. experts were in Sweden on Tuesday to assist Stockholm police tackle gun crime in the city, Swedish media reported.more

Body scanners designed to detect guns, knives and explosive devices concealed under clothing will be deployed by police for the first time today. more

A £4.8 million golden toilet stolen from Blenheim Palace in a smash-and-grab could be melted down by thieves, it was warned today.more

According to the RMF24 portal based on the Swedish media, the Swedish police issued an official warning to Poles against fraudsters using the Polish language. Poles are to look in the phone book for Polish-sounding names and then call these people pretending to be policemen.more

The Central Anticorruption Bureau has not purchased any system of mass surveillance of Poles, the CBA's social communication department said. The office thus referred to reports that the special services had bought a Pegasus system allowing remote access to smartphones.more

The government has declared it has "turned the page on austerity" as it set out plans to raise spending across all departments.more

Surveillance cameras equipped with face detection technology have been approved for some of London's premier cultural and shopping destinations, the Evening Standard has learned.more

Scotland Yard is seeking about 6,000 more officers from the Government's policing uplift to take its numbers to a record high, Cressida Dick has said.more

British and American police are working together to find a teenager girl suspected of flying from New York to London after texting an older man.more

A 32-year-old Pole escaped from the Poggioreale prison in Naples yesterday - Italian media reported. The prisoner escaped, sliding down on the sheet as the convicts went to mass in the chapel. This is the first escape from this prison in 100 years.more

Authorities in Barcelona say they have evacuated one of the Spanish city's popular beaches after reports of a possible explosive device there.more