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NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly: Police to use Tera-Hertz scanners within six months
The New York Police Department will begin using scanner technology that can see through a person’s clothes within the year, according to Commissioner Ray Kelly. “We’ve been looking at it for several years, looking at it with the Department of Defense, and also Metropolitan Police in London,” he said on…
Autistic London teen wins damages over police restraint
An autistic teenager with epilepsy won damages on Wednesday from the Metropolitan Police after he was forced into handcuffs and leg restraints during a school trip in what the High Court ruled was an “assault”. Police used “wholly inappropriate” restraint in their “over-hasty and ill-informed” response after the young man…
Man stabbed to death during post-Christmas rush in London
A man was stabbed to death on London’s Oxford Street on Monday as bargain hunters crowded into the post-Christmas sales on one of Britain’s busiest shopping thoroughfares, police said. Police made a number arrests after the man, believed to be in his late teens or early 20s, was killed near…
First ‘computer hacking’ arrest in Murdoch paper probe
LONDON — Police investigating the scandal that closed the News of the World tabloid made a first arrest Thursday over alleged computer hacking, extending the probe from phone hacking. Officers from London’s Metropolitan Police arrested a 52-year-old man in Milton Keynes, northwest of London. He was held “on suspicion of…
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