During the winter holidays, there are also policemen in addition to rescuers for safety on the ski slopes. Ski police patrols can be found, among others in Zakopane, Krynica, Szczyrk or Zieleniec.more
The "febrile" atmosphere around Brexit could be exploited by far-right extremists, the UK's most senior counter-terrorism officer has warned. Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said 18 terror plots were foiled in Britain since 2017, four of them far-right.more
A group of MPs and campaigners are calling for misogyny to be made a hate crime. A letter by gender equality the Fawcett Society urges police to criminalise prejudice against women. more
The mayor of a city in Poland was in a very serious condition after he was stabbed while on stage during the finale of a large charity event, Poland's interior minister said.more
A coroner has branded police who dealt with the death of a UK man in Poland "wholly incompetent" after hearing they halted their initial investigation.more
Police have opened an investigation after Heathrow airport was forced to ground departures because of a drone sighting - less than three weeks after a series of similar reports at Gatwick affected about 1,000 flights.more
Almost 1,000 police officers from England and Scotland are to begin training for deployment in Northern Ireland in case of disorder from a no-deal Brexit, the Guardian has learned.more
A Chinese company that made and sold fakes of a popular British brand of hairdryers has been shut down by police and 36 people have been placed in criminal detention.more
Arizona authorities are investigating the rape of a female patient in a vegetative state in a nursing facility. The woman stunned workers when she went into labor on Saturday because they didn't even know she was pregnant.more
There was a 4pc drop in road deaths on Irish roads in 2018 - the lowest number in 60 years - but there are still "drivers refusing to get the message". Statistics released by the Road Safety Authority of Ireland show 149 people lost their lives in 142 crashes, compared to 156 in 141 crashes in 2017.more
New York City could register the fewest number of homicides in several decades in 2018, as the city continues its long battle against violent crime. The city had recorded five fewer killings than the 292 investigated in 2017. That year's figure was itself the lowest in decades.more
Four people were injured when a car rammed into a crowd of people on the Osterfelder Straße in western Germany just after midnight on New Years day.more
In the south of Italy, the carabiners confiscated 25 kilograms of gunpowder and other explosives for the production of firecrackers, using which - as they admitted - one could blow up the entire district.more
Police and border officials are struggling to stop a rising supply of illegal firearms being smuggled into Britain, a senior police chief has warned.more
Met Police commissioner Cressida Dick said there would be consequences if the UK suddenly has no access to systems including the EU's policing and security databases.more
