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Making the police and the security services accountable can be a particularly tall order in the early years of a new and often fragile democratic regime.
As an official of Kenya's Child Welfare Society concedes, "There is little we can do to help when a child is ill-treated unless the case becomes known to us or to the police."
The Polish government delegation was traveling to a commemoration of the 1940 massacre in Katyn, where Stalin ordered the murder of 22,000 Polish army officers, police officers, and intelligentsia and blamed Hitler for the crime.
A third trend is growing reliance on the use of force, particularly on the part of the secret police, in political life.
But will France ultimately deliver i.e. send a significant amount of troops for the UN force set to police the peace in southern Lebanon?
More recently, the Prun agreement has elevated police cooperation to police integration among the participating states.
Governments will have to build up police and military forces.
Indictments have been issued against former and current cabinet ministers, members of parliament, judges, prosecutors, lawyers, police and customs officers, and other public officials, as well as directors of private companies.
On January 28, a peaceful but “unauthorized” demonstration by opposition parties was brutally repressed by the police and three presidential candidates were arrested for the day.
In a recorded conversation with a Metropolitan police commander, Lucy D’Orsi, the queen called Chinese officials “very rude,” and expressed sympathy for D’Orsi’s “bad luck” in having to deal with them.
But, then, in this last meeting, Wiesel learned, bit by bit, that Mitterrand the Marist prince had blithely gone off to play golf the day his loyal lieutenant, Pierre Bérégovoy, committed suicide, and that Mitterrand had continued, to the very last, to defend René Bousquet, head of the Vichy police and denouncer of Jews.
In fact, they have been warned not to wander beyond Sochi’s “ring of steel” security perimeter and the watchful gaze of black-and-gray-clad police officers, even though Olympians typically like to explore local sights.
Under Japan’s constitution, neither the country’s self-defense forces nor the police would have had legal grounds to travel overseas to rescue endangered Japanese citizens.
In a region of the state called Tierra Caliente (Hot Land), war is being waged by three armed groups: the government (army, navy, and federal police) and their allies, the self-defense groups, and organized crime militias that call themselves the Knights Templar.
If, on the other hand, the European Parliament’s members follow through on the logic of my case – if my shunning becomes the basis for a consistent policy – the EU will be on its way to creating a kind of morality police and launching a modern-day inquisition, one that crassly violates both freedom of religion and freedom of conscience.
Teachers and nurses are dying; police and security forces are being hard hit, and 14 million children have already been orphaned by AIDS.
By that time, Mexican police institutions were in a state of decomposition, making them fertile ground for the drug traffickers to corrupt.
It has nearly 100,000 peacekeepers, police, and combat troops on the ground in the world’s hot spots, helping to consolidate peace.
But the police made an elementary error that revealed the set-up: after supposedly receiving an anonymous tip about Ahmet A. (a pseudonym), they mistakenly searched Ahmet B.’s home – and yet somehow found the incriminating files among B.’s possessions.
A prosecutor questions a suspect about a plan to intimidate Christians before the police have actually “discovered” it.
Vindication comes quickly in Hollywood movies, but not in Turkey, whose courts have so far seemed oblivious to the glaring problems with evidence presented by police and prosecutors.
It is also discouraging foreign direct investment, as is the discrediting of Egypt’s police forces.
Human rights groups suggested the charge was invented, because the police had dropped the case for lack of evidence when it was first investigated 12 years ago, and neither witnesses nor new evidence were produced in court.
Rinchen and Chime had criticized a local police chief for hunting endangered animals.
This year alone, these self-appointed moral vigilantes have ransacked bars and nightclubs, attacked the American and Danish embassies, and stoned the offices of Playboy after its first edition – all with only occasional protests from the police.
The Jakarta police have begun acting with new vigor: they charged one prominent radical leader with defamation for publicly calling women opposed to the anti-pornography bill “evil, wretched, and immoral,” and then arrested the chairman and twenty members of FPI for attacking a group of cafes.
Military force, intelligence, and international police cooperation needs to be used against hardcore terrorists affiliated with or inspired by al-Qaeda, but soft power is essential to attracting the mainstream and drying up support for the extremists.
Gul, for example, complained to the police about her abusive in-laws, but she was returned to the family when some of their influential contacts intervened.
For example, in October 2010, the Afghan Supreme Court ruled that women who run away from home can be charged with prostitution, unless they go to the police or an immediate relative's home.
It also requires persuading representatives and policymakers to develop policies and allocate budget revenues to combat violence against women, and training police and judges to handle cases of violence against women without deferring to claims of family honor.
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