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 >>
Featured comment by tw@panda:
"The insurance companies see it as 13 years of driving experience and a clean licence, even though I know I have less than 30hrs on public roads since ..." More »
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Featured comment by theran24:
"I didn't get charged with anything in the end. It was when I was young and stupid and some friends were doing graffiti and I happened to be a lookout,..." More »
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Featured comment by Dr.Galactus:
"The biggest flaw I see in any of these is that they think the government who take 12 years to badly repair a pothole would somehow manage to orchestra..." More »
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 >>
Featured comment by FRISH:
"The thing's (although limited) I've heard that she's apparently said weren't even bad. Just your typical teenage calling someone gay/a fag as an insul..." More »
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Featured comment by sg1969:
"it didn't take them a month to notify her, I think they sent the message right away, but she didn't see it until a month later.
Of course, that doesn..." More »
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 >>
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 >>
Featured comment by strongp:
"I can sympathise with him.
In my (extensive) experience parking enforcement and moving traffic offences are used by local authorities to raise rev..." More »
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 >>
Featured comment by hughes82:
"lol well i hope they paid for damages if they broke the kid door down etc since its their mistake not the boys fault" More »
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