Police

The Ferguson City Council on March 10 evening unanimously approved a resolution to part ways with the City Manager John Shaw following a scathing Justice Department report that alleged racial bias in the city police department and court system.
     

With the support of 59 of the 122 deputies in parliament, Macedonia on Monday adopted changes to the Police Law allowing police to use rubber bullets to disperse violent crowds.

The police will now be allowed to use rubber bullets, stun guns and shock grenades if protesters who "violate the public order do not disperse on the call of the police".

BELGRAD - Transparency, internal contril and more integrity are key in solving the problem of corruption in the police forces of the region, which share similar issues, according to the conclusion of the conference on responsibility in police work in Western Balkans, held on Friday.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an is in a hurry and wants it passed and implemented as soon as possible. Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu insists everything is in order and according to EU criteria. But it looks like the angry debate on the new Internal Security Law the government has drafted and submitted to parliament will not subside any time soon.

Police entered the administrative headquarters of Athens University on Friday morning and arrested 14 anti-establishment protesters, ending a 19-day sitin of the institution that had unsettled the government and fueled political tensions.

Two brothers who posed as tax officers on Tuesday in order to swindle 350 euros from an 80-year-old man in a village in Kilkis, northern Greece, were in hospital later in the day after a car chase by police culminated in them losing control of their vehicle and suffering broken limbs.

Police officers in Turkey viewed the activists in the Gezi Park protests of summer 2013 as ?morally problematic outsiders,? according to a new report written by a local Police Academy scholar.

Defense Ministry refuses to send documents to ombudsman

BELGRADE -- Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic has said that the documentation sought by Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic cannot be submitted without the agreement of the prosecution.

BELGRADE - Serbian Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic said on Monday that intense efforts are being invested in the preparation of the Law on Enforcement and Security, and added that the new solutions should be ready for adoption in mid-2015.

The Council of State, Greece?s highest administrative court, on Tuesday approved the government?s plan to re-establish the municipal police within the national force.

The municipal police was disbanded in the summer of 2013 as part of the government?s drive to meet the public sector mobility scheme targets.