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This Is Why You Shouldn’t Tweet About Hitting People With Your Car #Bloodycardrivers

A mouthy lady driver has been shamed into deleting her entire Twitter account, after police began investigating her proud claim to have knocked a cyclist off his bike in Norwich. Read More >>

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Government and Police Caught Downloading Finding Nemo in Canadian Piracy Fightback

Members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have been rumbled using their (ruggedised) official computer equipment to download torrent files, or at least that's what IP searches conducted by pro-freedom internet groups appear to suggest. Read More >>

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Police Called as Rival Sci-Fi Clubs Battle for Doctor Who Star’s Attention

The usually sedate and harmless Norwich Sci-Fi and Film Convention at the University of East Anglia kicked off and required police intervention, after a rival science fiction group dared to enter its turf. Read More >>

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Wiltshire Police in Low-Speed Mobility Scooter Escort Mission

A rather bizarre waste of police resources has been captured on video and stuffed online, after a road user spotted a low-speed police escort being given to mobility scooter. Read More >>

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Apple’s Got a Huge Waiting List of Cops Who Need iPhones Cracked

It's no secret that the police aren't very good at breaking into encrypted iPhones, but they've been asking Apple for help. A lot of help. According to reports by CNET the US government asks for so much help that the "please decrypt this iPhone for me" waiting list is at least seven weeks long. Read More >>

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Undercover Cops Are Selling iPhones On The Street To Get People To Stop Buying Stolen iPhones

In San Francisco, police are using a new tactic to disincentive people from buying stolen iPhones: they're trapping them in undercover stings. Wearing plain clothes, the officers are going around certain city areas and selling iPhones which they readily indicate are stolen. When someone tries to buy one, they make an arrest. Read More >>

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Notes From the Frontline: Ask Matt Delito Anything (and Win Signed Copies of His New Book)

We're blushing with pride this week at Giz -- our clandestine copper columnist Matt Delito, writing for us since October 2011, published his first book yesterday. Confessions of a Police Constable (from £2.99 over on Amazon) contains some of Delito's more remarkable stories from his years working for the Metropolitan Police, and for the next hour's AMA, the five best questions asked of him will win you a signed copy of his book. Read More >>

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This Is the Camera That Found the Second Boston Bomber

The good 'ole 'Merican law enforcement didn't pull any punches during its manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers, going so far as to lock down an entire metropolis while they searched. Even when officers thought they had the second suspect cornered in Watertown boat, they confirmed their suspicions with a camera that can spot people from up to 10 miles away. Just to be sure. Read More >>

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Angsty Teen Paris Brown Quits Police Role Over Shady Twitter Past

The furore over past comments made by high-profile youth police and crime commissioner Paris Brown has claimed her bouffant scalp, with the 17-year-old quitting her advisory job after her slightly dodgy youthful tweets triggered a modern-day outrage. Read More >>

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Samsung Offices Raided By Police Over Alleged LG Technology Theft

Police have raided one of Samsung's offices in Asan, South Korea, after being tipped off about the possible theft of OLED TV technology from rivals LG. Read More >>

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Boston Cops Hilariously Pose Online As Punk Rockers

A recent city noise control ordinance in Boston has cops cracking down on roving rock shows that don't take place in formal venues. So they're posing as punk rockers online to sniff out concert locations so they shut them down more easily. Only problem is their police work reads like an out of touch parent trying to talk to a teen about that new fangled rock and/or roll. Read More >>

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Police in the US Informed a Mother About Her Son’s Death Over Facebook

On January 24th, Ricky Lamb was hit by a car and killed. His body sat in the morgue until Valentine's Day, though, because the incompetent local police only contacted the family over Facebook. It took a month for Lamb's mother to find the message. Read More >>

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Armed Police Raid a Man’s House Over a Facebook Snap of a Toy Mortar

In another case of police resources being put to good use, five coppers -- two armed with sub-machine guns -- battering on the door of poor Ian Driscoll, thinking that his fancy new profile pic featuring an Action Man and toy mortar, was real. Read More >>

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Driver Faked CCTV Footage to Avoid Speeding Fine

Well, that was the idea. Plymouth man Roger Moore was caught speeding in a hire car, but decided that faking CCTV pics of his own car sitting on his drive would prove he'd already collected his car and driven home, and therefore was not the man hammering the hire car. Read More >>

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A Swedish Police Taskforce Raided a Bunch of Teenagers Playing Call of Duty

Whether you chalk it up to the hyper-realism of today's video games or an overzealous neighborhood watch program, it's hard to blame the Swedish police who responded to a frantic call reporting what sounded like a brutal massacre. The ten-man team raided the apartment to find a group of teenagers in the midst of a gratuitous and abhorrent bloodbath. Just another friendly night in playing Call of Duty. Read More >>