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Some police and army officers deserted and the commander-in-chief ran away from the battlefield dressed as a peasant.
Moreover, the hard core of Tudor’s party is composed of former Securitate men, dissatisfied army officers, and other worshippers of the old regime.
Until now, most civilian drones have been equipped only with high-resolution cameras, offering police officers, search-and-rescue teams, journalists, filmmakers, and inspectors of crops and infrastructure a bird's-eye view of their surroundings.
Data protection authorities, civil-society organizations, and privacy officers in businesses and public organizations should publish guidance on drone use, as they have done for other existing and emerging technologies.
In Defense of Angela MerkelPARIS – The recent cover of Der Spiegel showing German Chancellor Angela Merkel in front of the Acropolis surrounded by Nazi officers serves an important purpose: it finally poses, in a way that cannot be evaded, the question of Germanophobia in Europe.
On the other side of the bars, low-paid, often poorly trained corrections officers exercise near-absolute authority over an irascible population.
“[M]any officers and commanders refused to torture detainees and were against corruption, but we need a revolutionary president to empower us and clean the ministry.”
They got their way in the end,” says Major Ahmad Ragab, the spokesperson of the reformist General Coalition of Police Officers (GCPO), which seeks to establish an official police syndicate and reform the security services along apolitical, professional lines.
Tempers remain inflamed, with US Ambassador Nancy Powell, in a New Year’s message to Indians, ruefully acknowledging that ties have been “jolted by very different reactions to issues involving one of your consular officers and her domestic worker.”
Senior officers surely know the risks that they will incur if they order these men to fire on friends and relatives.
Almost all of them are high-ranking military officers, now elevated to the government’s most important offices.
Meanwhile, the Islamic State has manpower, money, territory, and military expertise (much of it from former officers in the Iraqi army).
While an increase in UNHCR protection officers would help, it is equally important that the agency get its facts straight.
Indeed, increasingly sophisticated weapons systems and protective equipment are being disseminated to civilian police officers.
Bank officers got rewarded for higher returns – whether they were a result of improved performance (doing better than the market) or just more risk taking (higher leverage).
Today's Russian army is not the bastion of reactionary monarchism and anti-Semitism that shaped French officers' behavior in the Dreyfus affair.
Military officers are not overwhelmingly communist in their political leanings, not exclusively ethnic Russians, and not necessarily nationalists.
Some officers are all of these, and most are some of them.
It appears to have mostly learned its lesson about keeping out of politics, having been drawn into the coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in August, 1991, only to switch sides when young officers and conscripts balked at carrying out orders.
When the proceedings began a year ago, democratic Russia seemed to be catching up at long last with the civilized world in holding military officers accountable to the rule of law.
The video of five police officers subduing and then killing a man, despite his pleas that he could not breathe, could have come from many countries around the world.
The masses in Tahrir Square sought a revolution in February 2011, but it now seems clear that Egypt’s officers staged a coup d’état.
Putin has always been a great fan of the siloviki – former Soviet military and intelligence officers – who make up the bulk of his cabinet and account for the Kremlin’s unchecked power over Russian political life.
His leadership success came from his bureaucratic skill in cultivating Congressional support and obtaining resources, and from a rigid discipline that tolerated no failures among his officers.
The result was an efficient and accident-free nuclear submarine force that developed a mystique of success and attracted bright young officers.
Many now even advocate putting guns in the classroom, forcing teachers to act as armed police officers.
Sinai’s Second-String SecuritySHARM EL-SHEIKH – In the wake of an attack that killed 16 security officers in the Sinai Peninsula in August, the Egyptian military has ratcheted up the pressure against jihadis there.
It came in the form of a young Belgian judge, a Brussels prosecutor, four strapping police officers, and a court clerk, who arrived in this dusty capital to investigate charges filed against Habré in a Belgian court pursuant to that country's long-arm anti-atrocity law, which permits prosecution of the worst human rights crimes no matter where they took place.
Moreover, the military receives inadequate financing, with officers forced to use their personal funds to purchase gas for military vehicles.
And there remains plenty to talk about: the grotesquely disproportionate number of black men in US prisons; the lack of educational opportunities in poor, mostly black areas; the appalling healthcare system; and the very real brutality used by police officers against blacks, who don’t have the privilege of a Harvard ID.
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