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A police officer, 29-year-old Rouven Laur , [9] [10] [11] threw the mistaken passerby, Torsten K., to the ground. [7] Laur then turned away from the attacker and pinned down Torsten K. [7] by kneeling on him, allowing the attacker to run around Laur and stab him in the neck. [12] Another police officer then non-fatally shot the attacker.
The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) was founded in late 1992 by former police commissioner Simeon Danladi Midenda.The inciting events that spurred SARS formation were the killing of Colonel Ezra Dindam Rimdan (Nigerian Army) by police officers at a checkpoint in Lagos in September 1992, their arrest, [6] a strike by police officers in response, and a subsequent crime wave.
A witness said that a spike belt was deployed. According to witnesses, Couture-Rouleau exited the car and charged a female police officer with a knife. [3] Police shot him up to seven times and he was pronounced dead that evening in hospital. [3] A large knife was seen stuck in the ground according to eyewitnesses. [4] There were two victims.
Special police usually describes a law enforcement agency or unit within a such an agency whose duties and responsibilities are significantly different from other forces in the same nation, jurisdiction, or from other personnel within the same agency, although there is no consistent international definition.
Encounter killings, often simply referred to as encounters, is a euphemism used in South Asia to refer to extrajudicial killings by security forces.The officers typically described the incidents as a shootout situation, often allegedly starting when a criminal grabs for the gun of a police officer. [1]
Mid January: ONH left an explosive device in west Belfast with the intent to kill police officers. The device was defused after it was reported that a strange device had been left in the area. [76] 7 February: 3 threats were made to three siblings, a 14-year-old girl, a 16-year-old boy (shot in December 2016, see above) and an 18-year-old boy.
Spoiler alert: We’re breaking down the events of 9-1-1 Season 8, Episode 7. Haven’t watched? You’ve been warned. Athena Grant may seem like the second coming of Wonder Woman at times, but ...
The End of Watch Call or Last Radio Call is a ceremony in which, after a police officer's death (usually in the line of duty but sometimes from illness), the officers from his or her unit or department gather around a police radio, over which the police dispatcher issues one call to the officer, followed by a silence, then a second call, followed by silence.