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...The police later said that all the intruders had been arrested after a task force was dispatched to the scene....
...Once a relatively peaceful nation flanked by more violent neighbours, Ecuador has been facing a surge in crime driven by drug gangs competing to secure profitable trafficking routes in recent years....
...A police task force retook the studio soon after, arresting 13 intruders and liberating the hostages, but across the country similarly harrowing scenes were playing out, triggered by the escape of jailed...
...In 2021 prosecutors charged more than 350 defendants for crimes including murder, drug trafficking and extortion....
...Since the Paramilitary Crime Task Force began operations in late 2017, police have seized £3.75mn of controlled drugs....
...After the creation of professional police forces in the 19th century, the police became both investigators and prosecutors of most criminal cases, along with county prosecutors and private individuals....
...He added that the proposal was also made to Theresa May, then prime minister, and to Priti Patel, former home secretary, but the joint task force never materialised....
...There have been many studies that show people with severe mental illness are no likelier to commit violent crimes than the rest of the population. But people don’t believe the data....
...The graffiti task force, which contains one sergeant and eight dedicated officers, is also embroiled in a protracted guerrilla war that most people don’t even notice....
...tackling violent crime — by enshrining them in law....
...Task forces spring up via which banks are to stop human trafficking, stop the illegal wildlife trade and myriad other forms of criminality....
...strategic task.”...
...And last week a few National Guard troops were scattered around Hennepin County Government Center, where the court is located....
...County lines drug-dealing exploited the “frailties” of the fragmented structure of police forces in England and Wales, Tom Winsor, chief inspector of constabulary, said....
...But one of his next projects may satisfy those who demand a more negative view of the police: it tracks the Gun Trace Task Force, a police unit that stole cash and drugs from Baltimore residents....
...The extra funding to tackle the drug-running operations will go towards expanding the National County Lines Co-ordination Centre — part of the National Crime Agency — to improve intelligence sharing and...
...latter’s violent 30-year campaign to force Britain out of Northern Ireland....
...The Home Office needs to show proper leadership on policing to ensure that forces are fully equipped to tackle this epidemic of violent crime.”...
...Police forces across the UK are stretched way beyond capacity, illustrated starkly by a surge in violent crime and parallel drop in the number of arrests....
...Children increasingly used to move drugs from big cities to towns and villages “County lines” operations blamed for rising violent crime in London Experts bemoan lack of a consistent approach across UK...
...Arfon Jones, the Police and Crime Commissioner for North Wales, told the FT the prison had been a drain on resources....
...The graphic showed spikes of activity in May and October 2015 and the nature of his offences — 46 per cent of which were violent crimes and 35.6 per cent sexual offences....
...This has led to drugs, and these drugs have led people to drop out permanently from the labour force. A downward spiral fuelled by opioids....
...Cressida Dick, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said on Thursday that a new violent crime task force of 120 officers would target drug dealers, muggers and violent individuals in crime “hotspots”...
...But he pointed out that some forms of crime — including some violent crime — are again on the rise, and the public would like to see more officers out on routine patrol, even though it is an expensive measure...
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