Sentences with phrase «using armed police»

«The mayor was concerned by reports about the use of armed officers but has been reassured by [Met commissioner] Sir Paul Stephenson there is no intention of using armed police in routine manner,» she said.

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Highlighting a dark side to its popularity, the game was used by four teens in Missouri to lure nearly a dozen victims into armed robberies, police and media reports said.

Armed police closed off parts of the Portobello Road and a helicopter used searchlights to help with the operation.

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.

«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.

According to the police, without verifying the identity of Captain Mahama, the assemblyman and armed townsfolk accosted the military officers, gave him chase, shot at him, and eventually pounced on him using crude weapons such as cement blocks, clubs, among others, until he died around 10 am on Monday, two hours after he started a 20 km jog.

ICRC's recent publication, Violence and the Use of Force, spells out the legal framework for managing policing and restraint around situations other than armed conflict.

Senate Republicans were pushing hard for money that would be used to upgrade security at schools — and help some districts hire armed police officers.

For more than 30 years, New York City charged a reasonable, minuscule income tax — 0.45 % — on approximately 800,000 suburban workers who make daily use of our city's roads, subways, police and other services.Over the strenuous objections of then - mayor Rudy Giuliani, Silver strong - armed his own Democratic members and ended up making an alliance with Republican members to kill the tax — not for any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special election.

Troy police leaders contend that Thevenin was technically armed — using his vehicle as the weapon — and that French was justified in shooting when he was allegedly pinned by the vehicle.

The gathering, who appeared agitated, were challenged by some tens of armed police men who fired gunshots and used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd.

Police officials said they considered Thevenin was considered armed because he was using his vehicle as a weapon.

However, police personnel armed to the teeth, including support of armoured personnel carriers, mobilized to the scene and dispersed the protesters with use of tear gas and water cannons.

While their task was to prevent the flame from being extinguished - a role they failed in on three occasions as the flame made its way through Paris - they were seen to wrestle protestors to the ground using techniques acquired at China's armed police academy.

The Black Rock shooting and confusion over whether suspect Jose Hernandez - Rossy was armed has given rise to many calls for Buffalo Police to have body cameras, but a range of practical and privacy concerns make their use a lot more complicated than just clipping the the equipment to the outside of...

Off - topic questions included efforts at combating sex trafficking on Roosevelt Avenue, reports of criminal charges against a defunct arm of the Working Families Party, whether the mayor will veto proposed bills criminalizing police use of chokeholds and requiring police to advise people of a right to refuse before asking to search them, whether the mayor plans to see the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge when they visit New York, whether his message is getting lost in critical news coverage and his view of the Astoria Cove development deal.

«The Command however uses this medium to urge Burna Boy's father and relatives to do right by bringing the musician and turning him in to the police before the long arm of the law catches up with him.

The orders signed Thursday allow the sergeant at arms to detain the missing senators and use police force if necessary.

The PPRO said, «The police are intensifying efforts with the aim of curbing armed attacks and apprehending criminal elements using tribal sentiment to cause mayhem.

NEW DELHI — Armed with a government order and escorted by police, animal activists yesterday seized and released into the wild 50 rhesus monkeys being used for testing a new drug.

These sensors are used every day, in airports and by the police and armed forces.

It can be used as a representation of another person — this is perfect for anyone involved in contact sports and those in the armed forces, police, firefighters and many more occupations.

Used to be an armed special police officer here in d. C.

Used to be an armed special police officer here in D.C..

They got used to having an armed police officer on the school's roof every day, and repeated threats threw the school into lockdown.

School police officers are armed with pepper spray, Tasers, guns, and canines — and they're using these on students.

They are used by the armed services and police for protection, tracking, rescue work; for herding and as a guide dog for the blind.

This breed is routinely used for: obedience trialing, conformation showing, weight pull, Schutzhund (a German sport which requires dogs to perform in obedience, tracking and protection phases of a competition), agility, and have even been known to participate in herding trials, search and rescue work, and a variety of other tasks including police and armed services work.

Police dogs, armed forces dogs and assistance dogs may also not be trained using electric shock training devices.

Furthermore, some of the most highly trained dogs in the world, including police dogs, armed forces dogs and assistance dogs are trained without the use of electric shock collars.

But now, universities and schools are entering a new dark age of knowledge, where Science will be determined by the priests, pope, gods of the academic church, and not only backed but empowered with might of arms of the police and military the governments wield through the use of undemocratic legislation and the court system.

And while we all would wish the role of police force to the world were not the lot of the US armed forces, the use to which American lives were put, it is not yet the day today that the nation has withdrawn from the world, either; pretending otherwise by blinkering those who the people of the USA command into harms way from the conditions they will certainly need preparing for too is a shameful act.

Media reports often spur mixed opinions to how the police force in the US tackle [emergency] cases; the use of armed weaponry and the ability to «shoot to stop» has caused controversy, as self - defence being used as an excuse to purposely «aim to harm» due to alternative predisposed aims are in play during discussions.

For example, Article 36 reviews are not obligated to cover weapons used for domestic purposes outside of armed conflict such as policing, border control, or crowd control.

School police officers are armed with pepper spray, Tasers, guns, and canines — and they're using these on students.