Sentences with phrase «used by police forces»

Breathalyzers, which measure blood alcohol levels, are used by police forces across the country, and their results are key evidence in Canadian courtrooms.

The breed is highly intelligent, very strong with great endurance, easily trained for family type behaviors, and is used by police forces worldwide due to the breed's ability to accept highly advanced training for a variety of missions.

They are often used by police forces and the military as working dogs, as German shepherds are very smart and easy to tame.

These leather boots are used by police forces all around the world, both big and small.

A company that makes body cameras used by police forces across the country is weighing the benefits of adding facial recognition technology to the cameras.

The goal is to demonstrate just how vulnerable drones currently in use by police forces around the world to execute critical missions are to hackers.

«To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which weapons are available for use by police forces; and how many of each type are available to each force.

The scooters will be given to the parking enforcement and later used by the police force when the lights, which will also be run off of the onboard battery system, are on installed.

Not exact matches

He also referred to the Council and the mayor's agreement in 2015 to increase the police force by 1,300 officers, noting that the money could have been used for the reduced fares.

Uprooted trees and widespread flooding blocked many highways and streets across the island, creating a maze that forced drivers to go against traffic and past police cars that used loudspeakers to warn people they must respect a 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew imposed by the governor to ensure everyone's safety.

The Barna group released the findings of a nationwide survey of Americans yesterday, specifically the answers to two questions about use of force by police officers.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Fishburn said that the task force had tried to use «expressive» language in dealing with sexuality — not sex, as it was invariably termed by the media — but that this language was converted by the secular media into a dualistic, simplistic and moralistic language that treated sexual relationships as if they were being entered on a police docket.

I think the level of threat to the person should be met by equal or reasonably greater force necessary to end the threat (Police, security guards used to be taught this).

In July 2017, a new bill co-sponsored by a bipartisan group of four lawmakers was introduced «to ensure effective implementation of the Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2008» and «to prohibit assistance from being provided to, or licenses for direct commercial sales of military equipment issued to, the government of a country whose police or other security forces recruit and use child soldiers.»

«We all use the same roads, we are all protected by our police and armed forces, even those who go private sometimes rely on the NHS.

He's argued that there's no basis for the kind of brute force used by the police against unarmed citizens in the protest organized by pro-opposition pressure group Let My Vote Count Alliance, and others.

US courts can't order Swiss police to make an arrest or send someone to the US, and US police can't go into a Swiss hotel and slap handcuffs on people; for the arrest, there needs to be Swiss involvement (or use of force by the US, like in Panama in 1989; that's not typically the preferred option, though).

That is why police forces across the country are working hard to find better and more efficient ways of working, for example by making better use of technology, improved procurement of goods and services and by widening the collaboration between forces.

Every city has used police force to evict them except DC, where they're protected by the Park Ppolice force to evict them except DC, where they're protected by the Park PolicePolice.

In this 2015 file photo, state Rep. Charlie Stallworth of Bridgeport listens to testimony at a law enforcement forum at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford on the deadly use of force by police officers.

An Independent Police Complaints Commission investigation [75] into the use of firearms by Metropolitan Police Officers, which was published on 19 December 2013 once a verdict had been reached in the defendants» trial, concluded that the officers who had used force on 22 May 2013 had «acted entirely appropriately» and had shown «skill and professionalism».

Police said that in addition to using extreme violence and being protected by forces with heavy caliber weapons, da Rocha changed his face.

Big Brother Watch is calling for the words «grossly offensive» to be removed from the Malicious Communications Act, a full review of the communication legislation being used by social media and a common approach to enforcing the legislation by police forces, including the recording of social media offences.

In 2006, Paterson sponsored a controversial bill to limit the use of deadly force by the police, but later changed that position.

The use of excessive and lethal police force against people of color is a persistent problem nationwide and we must recommit ourselves to building a more just city and society where all people, regardless of color, are treated equally by law enforcement.

The Nassau County Police Department's revamped use - of - force policy urges officers to use de-escalation methods rather than physical force, expands and tracks the incidents involving physical force reviewed by top brass and limits the use of the controversial chokehold.

It's considered that erring on potentially using too much force and killing the person who has made themselves a lethal threat is preferable to erring on being too gentle and the police or an innocent bystander getting killed by a perpetrator.

Note that there is no relationship (at least legally) between the death penalty and use of weapons by police force; even in countries with death penalty police follows the same Rules of Engagement (use weapon as self - defense or when other people are in danger), death penalty is stablished by a jury or judge (police is a law enforcement agency, sentences are issued by judges or juries)

Today, the English Defence League increasingly marches in town centres decrying «radical Islam», followed by the police - whose efforts at crowd control are often criticised for their use of force - and are met with groups of determined anti-fascist demonstrators.

«The decision to use force is made by the individual police officer, and they must account for that.»

According to Kyari, the strategy used by security agents to track and nab Evans was confidential information that was known to only him and a few senior officers in the Police force, which was in contrast to what had filtered into the public domain.

Immediately following a lengthy meeting by its Police Oversight Committee, the Buffalo Common Council passed resolutions asking the Buffalo Police Department to seek state accreditation and document its policies regarding the use of force.

Mr Davis said the savings obtained by dropping the scheme could be used to fund a dedicated border police force, extra prison places and more drug rehabilitation programmes.

Jim Heaney talks with Susan Arbetter of The Capitol Pressroom about a story published Monday by Investigative Post on the Buffalo Police Department's failure to update its «use of force» training for officers.

Research published by Big Brother Watch showed that communications data is already used across police forces and highlighted significant inconsistencies in the way that communications data is being used.

Speaking at the Nigeria Police Force Health Policy Revalidation meeting in Abuja on Tuesday, Arase said that the initiative became necessary following incidents of indiscriminate use of firearms by personnel of the fForce Health Policy Revalidation meeting in Abuja on Tuesday, Arase said that the initiative became necessary following incidents of indiscriminate use of firearms by personnel of the forceforce.

Three other bills, requiring the Police Department to report certain data on the use of force and deployment of officers with substantiated civilian complaints, were expected to be adopted by the Council on Thursday.

He also referred to the Council and the mayor's agreement in 2015 to increase the police force by 1,300 officers, noting that the money could have been used for the reduced fares.

Bratton also said use of force by police is down 34 percent from 2010 to 2014.

«Our position is that the only office that really can be counted on at this point to do a thorough and fair investigation of what we believe to have been a completely unjustified use of deadly force by a police officer would be the New York Attorney General's office,» said Mishler at the time.

The NYPD and an independent agency tasked with investigating excessive force claims are inconsistent in determining how and when officers are held accountable for using prohibited chokeholds, according to a report released Monday by the city's new inspector general for police.

The NYPD and an independent agency tasked with investigating excessive force claims are inconsistent in determining how and when officers are held accountable for using prohibited chokeholds, according to a report released this past Monday by the city's new inspector general for police.

The Home Office Scientific Development Branch maintains a database, on behalf of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), of firearms and ammunition used by authorised firearms officers in the 43 forces in England and Wales.

Police commissioner Bill Bratton expressed concern Wednesday over Governor Andrew Cuomo's call to have an independent monitor investigate when unarmed civilians are killed by police and his proposal to create statewide minimum standards for police use of Police commissioner Bill Bratton expressed concern Wednesday over Governor Andrew Cuomo's call to have an independent monitor investigate when unarmed civilians are killed by police and his proposal to create statewide minimum standards for police use of police and his proposal to create statewide minimum standards for police use of police use of force.

(Some have suggested that DAs are too close with local police departments to impartially review improper use of deadly force by police; at the time Schneiderman requested that Cuomo grant him the additional power in such cases, Daniel Pantaleo, the police officer whose chokehold killed Eric Garner, had recently escaped an indictment.)

I want to emphatically reject the idea that because of Eric Garner's prior arrests, that it somehow allows the use of excessive force — of deadly physical force by the police against any unarmed person.»

The decision to resort to the use of «Operation Cow Leg,» was the outcome of the meeting, and it is expected to be implemented by a joint military and police task - force.

Mr Green says «it is not a choice between water cannon and policing by consent, but of using water cannon or some other violent force that the police need in an emergency situation».

The findings, published Sept. 16 in the American Journal of Sociology, show that two fatal shootings of police officers by black suspects in New York City increased the use of police force against blacks substantially in the days after the shootings, while the use of force against whites and Hispanics remained unchanged.