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Police say a video from the Uber self - driving car that struck and killed a woman on Sunday shows her moving in front of it suddenly, a factor that investigators are likely to focus on as they assess the performance of the technology in the first pedestrian fatality involving an autonomous vehicle.

The police boss in the zone averred that the records had shown the amazing performances of the Osun PCRC in helping the State Police Command to unravel crime activities in different forms, saying the members have really proved their weights as sincere Nigerians who ready to serve the nation selflpolice boss in the zone averred that the records had shown the amazing performances of the Osun PCRC in helping the State Police Command to unravel crime activities in different forms, saying the members have really proved their weights as sincere Nigerians who ready to serve the nation selflPolice Command to unravel crime activities in different forms, saying the members have really proved their weights as sincere Nigerians who ready to serve the nation selflessly.

The first two columns are the indicators which best cover a state's ability to deliver on bread and butter economic issues; the Poverty and Economic Performance category includes variables such as unemployment, GDP growth, inflation, and government debt, while the Provision of Public Services category includes infrastructure, energy reliability, education, and policing.

Norwich Police arrested 55 - year - old John Stacy of Norwich for Possessing Obscene Sexual Performance by a Child & Failure to register as a Sex Offender.

«After six month of waiting another promotion was released on the 7th June, 2016 as a supplementary promotion to the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police but most of us were not still promoted even when our performance where above average and also recommended in Departmental Selection Board (DSB) in 2015 for promotion.

For services such as policing, where choice does not apply, it allows local communities to compare the performance of different police units and to demand better performance.»

New York Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Bill Bratton said earlier this year that officers are cracking down on illegal subway performances as part of the «broken window» theory of policing.

In his petition, Mr. Lake cites the award as an example of his «exceptional performance» as a police officer.

The Center for Law and Justice in Albany held the press conference Thursday to promote a report card on Albany Police Chief Steven Krokoff's performance over the past three years as head of the APD, but a reporter's query concerning the recent drug arrest of deputy Albany County Executive Christine Quinn tipped the mood in a very different direction.

It tells the story of a loser in debt (Emile Hirsch), his sexy - virginal younger sister (Juno Temple), their stupid, spineless father (Thomas Haden Church), his slutty, cheating wife (Gina Gershon), and a sick slickster of an hombre (Matthew McConaughey, in his second riveting performance of the year, following Magic Mike) who supplements his police - detective day job as a killer for hire.

The best performances are given by Vera Farmiga — who fulfills the promise she showed in last year's «Down to the Bone» with her portrayal of a police therapist at the middle of a wholly unnecessary love triangle — and Mark Wahlberg as one of Costigan's department contacts.

There is another fine performance by Harvey Keitel as the police inspector, a balanced character that also represents a breath of fresh air in the film.

Rockwell is the favorite, having won the Golden Globe and Critics Choice awards for his performance as a bigoted police officer on the cusp of change.

This is a major focus of Stronger, director David Gordon Green's gritty, performance - driven drama about Boston marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman, who was immortalized in the media as the dizzied man being wheeled out of the area with his legs blown off, and who later helped the police identify one of the bombers from his hospital bed.

Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Return of the Jedi) would also earn his sole (to date) nomination for his rich performance as Philadelphia police detective John Book, who gets put in charge of an investigation of a murder in the bathroom of a bus terminal witness by a young Amish boy, Samuel (Haas, Boys).

It details how the racism rot spreads through the police officers — if one man - in - uniform, Philip Krauss (British actor, Will Poulter, «The Revenant,» in as good a performance as you'll see all year), can be an open racist so can the rest, and after all, they are the police doing the right thing.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonough, director & writer) This film has gotten a lot of attention, mainly due to the performance of Frances McDormand as a mother who puts up billboards demanding that the police do more to solve the rape and murder of her daughter months before.

Comedian Katt Williams» appearance counts as funny and bizarre — his offscreen legal issues feel like a reference point for his police - besieged character — but the performance goes beyond stuntcasting into real, messy emotion.

Rockwell, who won Best Supporting Actor for his performance as a dim cop on a short and normally racist fuse, is funny but couldn't be accused of underplaying, while the somewhat overlooked Harrelson, as the police chief who unexpectedly turns out to be hiding not just a conscience but a tragic secret too, is quietly excellent.

And the performance immediately kicked off awards chatter as did the others in the film, particularly Sam Rockwell whose racist mama's boy police officer rides an arc to redemption.

Luke and Tim Robbins, as a police security officer who becomes the man's interrogator, give nuanced performances.

Frances McDormand received a much - deserved Academy Award for her performance as the pleasant but no - nonsense police chief, while William H. Macy was robbed of his Oscar at gunpoint by Cuba Gooding, Jr..

Supporting performances are adequate, with Kapoor suitably smarmy as the television host while Irrfan Khan is a passable police inspector.

It can also be said that many of the nominated films have strong female characters and performances, not least Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri with Frances McDormand dominant as a mother furious at the inability of local police to find her daughter's murderer.

gives a nuanced performance as police negotiator Max Vernon, charged with the delicate, dangerous task of communicating with the increasingly edgy men holding the embassy.

On the flip side, Tom Sizemore just phones in his performance as a police lieutenant, but his role is so thankless that it's hard to imagine it being played any more effectively.

Their love interests, played by Anna Kendrick and Natalie Martinez, respectively, also turn in fine performances as the wives who have to deal with the everyday lives of police officers.

Julianne Moore, Freeheld — Frankly, Peter Sollett's drama, written by Philadelphia scribe Ron Nyswaner, is way too afterschool specia - ish in its true tale of a terminally ill lesbian New Jersey police detective (Moore) fighting the system to ensure that her pension benefits go to her partner (Ellen Page), but Moore transcends the limitations of the material to deliver a forceful performance as a woman determined not to be let down by the community she served with distinction.

One of the movie's many strengths is a knock - out lead performance by Al Pacino as veteran NYC police detective Frank Keller.

Cate Blanchett (Fellowship of the Ring, Bandits) gives another terrific performance as an English teacher who is disgusted by the lack of interest by the local Italian police to her husband's drug overdose, and decide to take the law in her own hands by planting a bomb in the office of the drug dealer she feels responsible.

His performance, as the face of everything that's wrong with the American police force, is the epitome of corruption.

Some may complain that Fruitvale Station takes a one - sided approach to the incident, as the film leaves little room for humanizing the police officers (a menacing performance by Kevin Durand as a rather boisterous cop who may have played a hand in Oscar's death could only serve to enhance any of those protestations).

A pungently overwritten revenge saga featuring three of the year's top performances: Frances McDormand as a mother wanting answers, Woody Harrelson as a police chief not providing them and Sam Rockwell as a dim, dangerous deputy standing his ground.

And sticking with performances, genre fave Paul Gleason can't help but steal the show as asshole Deputy Police Chief Dwayne T. Robinson.

So the film's greater pleasures seep in around the edges of the plot: the gradual revelation of why Scudder quit the police force, the strong supporting performances (notably by Ólafur Darri Ólafson as the caretaker of a graveyard) and the relationship between Scudder and T.J., a savvy but homeless black teenager who becomes his sidekick.

McDormand's performance is a huge reason why Three Billboard's is one of the year's must see films and one of recent times best reviewed features, but McDonagh's film is also noteworthy for its supporting turns from Woody Harrelson as police chief William Willoughby, who cops the major brunt of Hayes public call outs, while Sam Rockwell is the best he's been since Moon as loose cannon police officer Dixon.

When a friend is killed by the police, though, they commit to becoming real revolutionaries, and as their first act, they bust a noted radical, Dhari (Nathaniel Martello - White, in a terrific performance), out of prison.

Despite a truly wooden performance by Gina Carano as police officer Kris Bajos, the bus - based sequences manage reasonable excitement and fun.

The central figure of Irish filmmaker Martin McDonagh's newest outing as writer / director, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, McDormand owns every part of her performance as Hayes, a mother who takes matters into her own hands after the brutal death of her teenage daughter and sets up 3 very prominent billboards questioning the police force's effort to catch her daughter's killer / s.

By Sean O'Connell hollywoodnews.com: The unofficial word on Oren Moverman's «Rampart» is that Woody Harrelson gives a can't - miss performance as a corrupt L.A. police officer, the kind of turn that could catapult him once again into the Oscar conversation.

And to think she began her film career — after several acclaimed stage performances in her native Australia — as a bit character named Mrs. Haines in the crime series «Police Rescue» in 1993.

Woody Harrelson teams again with Oren Moverman («The Messenger») to deliver a harrowing performance as a corrupt police officer.

Directed by Ben and Josh Safdie, the film was a highlight of the festival, with our own A.A. Dowd declaring Pattinson's performance as a twitchy bank robber attempting to engineer his brother's release from police custody the most deserving for the Main Competition's best actor prize.

If you've seen the Coen brothers» «Fargo» (1996) with its exploration of bunging police work and the performance of Frances McDormand as a pregnant Marge Gunderson will be aware of the treat that awaits.

While Sea of Love probably won't go down as one of Al Pacino's (Scarface, Godfather Part II) greatest films, his performance still makes this otherwise standard police thriller worth watching.

It also pulls a shrewd and nervy career - best performance from Robert Pattinson as small - time crook Connie, relentlessly hustling through one crazed night to spring his learning - disabled brother Nick (a touchingly vulnerable Benny Safdie) from a police - guarded hospital.

Each police officer shall, before entering into the performance of his or her duties, take the oath of office as established by the university; and the university may obtain and approve a bond on each officer, payable to the Governor and his or her successors in office, conditioned on the faithful performance of the duties of such university police officer.

The fact that police, fire, and soldiers were cited as examples of scaled salaries is a prime example of why schools should be able to set individual pay based on performance: the job of teacher is more technical, requires more education, and the results make more of a difference in society.

Playing as a cop, you get points for busting racers, and unlocking higher - performance police cars and more powerful pursuit features.

Thanks to the new EcoBoost engines, the Police Interceptor vehicles offer strong performance, as well as improved fuel economy.