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A transgender police candidate from the town of Torrelodones near Madrid has sparked a lively polemic in Spain. During the competitive exams in March, he changed his gender to female and achieved the best results in physical fitness tests in the female category. The other candidates feel cheated, writes "ABC."more

"The scale of vacancies in the police is so large that, figuratively speaking, it is as if there were no policemen in three medium-sized police garrisons. It is the worst in large agglomerations, where uniformed officers are leaving in great numbers, and new ones are not eager to serve" - we can read in the last "Rzeczpospolita".more

London's Met Police are "institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic" and "incapable of self-control", according to a report published last night and quoted by the local press today.more

More than 100 Metropolitan Police officers being investigated for sexual misconduct are currently working without restrictions, figures reveal. The Liberal Democrats have found that as of 3 February, more than a quarter of 548 officers being investigated for domestic abuse and sexual misconduct were working as normal.more

A 19-year-old Polish woman who was found Saturday evening on a beach near the village of Ouddorp in the Netherlands has died, Dutch police reported yesterday. A resuscitation attempt failed. Preliminary findings indicate that no crime was committed.more

Two mounted police officers have chased down a man spotted holding his mobile phone while driving.more

Police officers, thanks to the achievements of modern genetics and international cooperation, solved the case of the theft of jewelery from 10 years ago in Poland. As they determined, the perpetrator is a 43-year-old man residing in Great Britain.more

More than 1,500 police officers have been accused of violent offences against women and girls over a period of six months, and less than 1% have been sacked, according to new figures.more

Shots were fired inside a building used by Jehovah’s Witnesses in the northern German city of Hamburg on Thursday evening, with several people killed and wounded, police said.more

Police in Colorado are investigating Memphis Grizzlies All-Star Ja Morant over an incident in which he allegedly brandished a gun at a nightclub during an Instagram Live post Saturday morning. more

Police in the Netherlands received a record 9,900 reports of sexual assault and rape in 2022, the Dutch Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reported. That's 1.1 thousand more than the year before and the most in the country's history.more

An off-duty Northern Irish police officer was shot at a sports complex in Omagh in western Northern Ireland last night. He was taken to hospital; his condition is unknown at this time.more

UK counter-terrorism police are increasingly dealing with threats emanating from hostile states such as China, Russia and Iran, Matt Jukes, head of special operations at London's Metropolitan Police, announced yesterday.more

The use of Chinese-made DJI drones by British police is of grave concern to the government, the Daily Telegraph reported. The newspaper reveals that more than two-thirds of police drones were manufactured by a company that the US authorities considered a threat.more

Japanese police have smashed a network of voyeurs who, for 30 years, secretly photographed and recorded women taking naked baths in hot springs. At least 10,000 women were their victims, the media reported.more

A 13-year-old boy set fire to his school in Roermond in the south of the country on Saturday because he was unhappy with his teacher, the daily newspaper "De Telkegraaf" reported. He was detained by the police yesterday.more

More than half of Londoners do not trust the Metropolitan Police, a survey has found. A YouGov study shared with the Standard shows fifty-one per cent of Londoners do not trust the force very much or at all, compared to forty-two per cent who say they do tend to trust them.more

Police officers in the UK are searching for missing Polish citizen Pawel Martyniak. The man suffers from a mental disorder, said Police Chief Insp. Mariusz Ciarka's spokesman. He added that there is a high probability that he may stay in Poland.more

Former London Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick, who turned out to be a serial rapist, will spend at least 30 years and 239 days in prison, a London court has decided. In 18 years on the police force, Carrick committed 24 rapes.more

Gardaí are to dramatically ramp up the practice of travelling to international airports to ensure those seeking refuge in Ireland are boarding planes with the correct travel documents. A senior Government source has confirmed gardaí have already been travelling to a small number of mostly European countries after examining patterns and flows of people coming into Ireland, but that this is going tmore

Canadian companies, institutions and schools have special rules for reporting harassment, the media reports on subsequent investigations, but statisticians warn that the numbers known to police are severely underestimated.more

Thirty knives and weapons were recovered, 40 drugs seized, 66 vehicles taken and £5,700 cash retrieved.more

After it emerged that one of the London Metropolitan Police officers was a serial rapist, its management said it was re-investigating all 1,633 allegations of sexual and domestic violence involving 1,071 police officers.more

An officer from London's Metropolitan Police today pleaded guilty to 49 offences, mostly of a sexual nature, committed over 18 years. This is another recent case weighing heavily on the image of London's police force.more

The overall number of crimes over the last six months in Paris has decreased, but remains high and the situation is still not positive, Paris police chief Laurent Nunez assessed, as quoted by Euronews today.more