Crime News 30 Jan, 2013

Singapore-style caning effective as crime deterrent, says NPC delegate South China Morning Post A Singapore-style system of corporal punishment should be introduced on the mainland as a deterrent to crime, a Guangzhou delegate to the National People's Congress has proposed. Chen Weicai, head of personnel at the Guangzhou Public Security ...

Low success in cracking technology crime cases South China Morning Post The police's success rate in cracking technology crime remains low amid a surge in the number of such cases in the city, the chief of the force says. The rate of success in solving such crimes was just 15.4 per cent last year, when 3,015 cases were ...

Ivanov is known as Zlatko Baretata because he was once a member of counter ... Daily Mail A crime boss nicknamed 'The Beret' was gunned down in broad daylight as he arrived at court to appeal against his sentence for masterminding a drug smuggling operation. Bulgarian mafia head Zlatomir Ivanov, 44, was shot four times in his legs, arm and ...

Mike Tyson's turn in a crime drama about rape is baffling Telegraph.co.uk Oh, Mike Tyson. The man that launched a thousand Staffie owners' dog naming choices. From boxing ring to three-ring circus, his life has had it all, where "it all" equals: 'big talent marred by early success, creepy interviews with his ex-wife, and a ...

Top Federal Prosecutor of Corporate Crime Will Resign New York Times Lanny A. Breuer, the federal prosecutor who led the Justice Department's response to corporate crime in the wake of the financial crisis, will announce on Wednesday that he is stepping down after nearly four years in the post. As head of the Justice ...

Police turn to technology to solve crime KSPR Police have now turned to technology to help bring the crime rates down. The department bought a new web-based computer program considered the future of fighting crime. The program is called Command Central. It generates reports that help officers to ...

Putin's Baby Crime CounterPunch INSIDE ALEXANDER COCKBURN'S FBI FILE — In the premier issue of the new 28-page CounterPunch magazine, David Price, a historian of the CIA and other intelligences agencies, reveals the explosive contents of the FBI's file on Alexander Cockburn and ...

Children's Aid did not report sex crime, court told Toronto Star A former TTC employee impregnated a 15-year-old girl in the care of the Catholic Children's Aid Society 35 years ago, but the agency never reported the incident to police, a court has heard. Howard Smith, 61, admitted Tuesday in Ontario Superior Court ...

'Safest' city's crime fears as inmates freed from jail BBC News At least 3,000 prison inmates have been released in Georgia under an amnesty, with a further 2,000 due to walk free. But although the government says they were wrongly imprisoned - or mistreated in jail - there are fears about what impact their freedom ...

After a gun crime, history of a weapon takes time to find; ATF doesn't know ... Newser This photo taken Jan. 23, 2013 shows tracer Wendy Myer working to trace the ownership of a firearm used in a crime in a cubicle crowded with boxes of firearms transactions from dealers no longer in business,... (Associated Press) ... 2 killed, 2 injrued in Karachi firing The News International KARACHI: Two persons including a woman were killed while two others injured in separate incidents of firing in the metropolis, Geo News reported Wednesday. According to police, unidentified gunmen stormed a house in Machar Colony and opened fire on ...   Firing incidents kill 1, injure another The News International KARACHI: A person was killed while another injured in two separate incidents of firing in the metropolis, police said. According to the Malir Police, unidentified armed assailants shot dead a man of age 42 near Jinnah Square. The police sources said ...     Firing at Mehfil-e-Milad The News International HAFIZABAD: The District Bar Association members on Tuesday observed a complete strike against the firing at Mehfil-e-Milad by seven people. No lawyer appeared before the courts to register their protest. Later, the lawyers staged a sit-in on Sargodha ... Ex-SocGen Director Sues Over Firing, Withheld Bonus Pay Bloomberg Folef Hooft Graafland, 44, who worked in Societe Generale's London office, was fired in February 2012 as part of a cost- cutting program. He wasn't given the five months' notice required under his employment contract, meaning the firing by the French ... BWSSB's second round of firing illegal connections Times of India BANGALORE: In the second round of firing, BWSSB ( Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board) achieved to disconnect 120 illegal water and sanitary connections in Bangalore and recovered Rs 7.35 lakh. On the first day of the special drive taken up by ... Fire chiefs angry at renewed firing New Zealand Herald Fire chiefs are angry the army will start live firing again today at the scene of last week's big blaze at West Melton in Canterbury. The first fire bosses knew of it was when they read it on news websites yesterday, they said. Lincoln Volunteer fire ... Coach Ian Ferguson admits he's "in the firing line" if Perth Glory's fortunes ... Perth Now The Scotsman said he had the support of Glory owner Tony Sage, but acknowledged he was "in the firing line" if the team continued to lose games. “I know if results don't go my way, I'm probably the first one to get his head chopped off – that's the ... McQuaid in firing line Irish Examiner Meanwhile, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has accused the UCI's leaders of deceit and arrogance for scrapping its inquiry, and the row puts the governing body's President Pat McQuaid in the firing line again. His decision to terminate the ... Woman's excuse for firing gun: Sheriff Clarke said it was OK Milwaukee Journal Sentinel A 36-year-old Milwaukee woman had a ready excuse when Milwaukee police approached her Saturday about firing a gun on the 2300 block of W. Burleigh St. Makisha Cooper told police that Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. had said it was OK for her to arm herself ... Sexual Hazing Incident Leads To 5 Expulsions, Firing Of Vallejo Coach CBS Local VALLEJO (CBS SF) – The head football coach at St. Patrick-St. Vincent High School in Vallejo was fired Friday and five varsity football players were expelled because of alleged hazing incidents of a sexual nature that occurred last fall. School ...