The FBI has quietly broken with its long-standing firearms training regimen, putting a new emphasis on close-quarters combat to reflect the overwhelming number of incidents in which suspects are confronting their targets at point-blank range.The new training protocols were formally implemented…READ MORE HERE
Spanish police and the FBI have reportedly blocked a major Mexican drug cartel from launching a European operation. Sinaloa cartel member Jesus Gutierrez Guzman was part of the operation. Guzman is alleged to be the cousin of Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman, known as “El Chapo,” the leader of the Sinaloa cartel. The ministry said the cartel wanted to [...]
The United States Department of Homeland Security DHS launched the Blue Campaign in 2010 to more effectively combat human trafficking through four strategies: 1) enhanced public awareness, 2) improve victim assistance, 3) strengthen law enforcement investigations 3) increasing prosecution. With an estimated 20.9 million victims (source ILO), every year, men, women, and children are enslaved [...]
After 24 years on the run, one of the US marshals service’s most-wanted fugitives has been captured by Mexican police in the resort city of Cancun. Suspect Vincent Legrend Walters is wanted in San Diego, California, on murder charges in the 1988 killing of a woman kidnapped as part of a drug deal. He also [...]
Colombia and Peru have agreed upon a plan to combat criminal organizations on their common border, the defense ministers of the two countries announced to the press after a Wednesday meeting in Bogota. “Colombia and Peru have decided to aggressively confront organized crime which respects no borders, such as drug trafficking and illegal logging and [...]
Brazilian police are investigating possible connections between the organized crime groups controlling illegal gambling in Rio de Janeiro and Russian and Israeli mafias, with casinos in Argentina, Ecuador and Uruguay. According to daily newspaper O Globo, the legal casinos play a key role in laundering money for operators of illegal lotteries and slot machines in [...]
Mexican authorities said Wednesday that a surviving son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and three other relatives planned to enter Mexico under false names and hide at a Pacific coast resort. The plan to smuggle in al-Saadi Gadhafi allegedly involved two Mexicans, a Canadian and a Danish suspect, all of whom have been arrested [...]
Amnesty International released a highly critical report on Tuesday, saying the national police force kills and tortures with impunity in the Dominican Republic. The Dominican national police were responsible for 15 percent of violent deaths recorded annually in the Dominican Republic from 2005 to 2010, according to the report. The London-based human rights group said [...]
Brazilian Federal Police have arrested two men accused of murder in Tokyo under contract to the Yakuza, the feared Japanese mafia. On Tuesday, Interpol agents captured Cristiano Ito (a.k.a. the Boar), age 35, in Mogi das Cruzes, and Cristian Marcelo Gomes Fukuda, 31, in Campinas. According to federal police, Ito’s head and neck [...]
Addressing the press after meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderón this week, United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Director Yury Fedotov stressed the impact that organized crime has on that region as well as other parts of the world. “These criminals are responsible for the death and misery of people across the globe [...]
Joe Parry says: In Intelligence Infographics ” a good sketch is better than a long speech”.
EISIC, Dr. Nasrullah Memon and Computational Criminology: Early Warning Informatics System could predict Terrorist Threats
Sensor Urban Environments can prevent and fight robberies, terrorism attacks, natural catastrophes and other emergencies.
Athens Cyber Security Conference, Dr. Thuraisingham´s “Data Mining for Security”.
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