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Breadcrumb Trail Links Canadian Politics Months after the convoy left, Wellington Street in front of Parliament is still closed to most traffic Police patrol Wellington Street in Ottawa prior to the arrival of the "Rolling Thunder" convoy protest on Friday, April 29, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick Article content OTTAWA – With another police chief saying they didn’t ask for the federal government’s Emergencies Act, Liberal cabinet ministers are continuing to insist the move was…

Article content Ottawa’s interim police chief says he did not ask the federal government to invoke the Emergencies Act during the “Freedom Convoy” in February. Article content The Liberals have said law enforcement asked for additional powers that could only be granted by declaring a national emergency. Last week, however, Commissioner Brenda Lucki also said the RCMP did not ask the federal government to use the act. Ottawa interim chief Steve Bell spoke to a parliamentary committee today, along with representatives…

Window tints in India are illegal. Any vehicle except for the ones that take permission is now allowed to use any kind of tint. Recently, a video by police personnel shows the action taken by them on a police vehicle with a window tint. In the video, a team of police personnel take out all the aftermarket tints from the windows of a Mahindra Bolero. The Bolero had the Police stickers all over. However, the police officer says that no tint is allowed on any kind of car in India according to the order of the Supreme…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Body-worn cameras (BWCs) have become increasingly common in U.S. police departments, but we know little about their use in the field, including the factors related to whether and why police activate them. A new study examined the prevalence and correlates of BWC activation in Phoenix, Arizona. The study found that departmental policy may be the most important factor in determining BWC…

The National Institutes of Health announced this week that—at the direction of Congress—it is tightening rules for reporting sexual and workplace harassment by NIH-funded investigators. Institutions will now be legally required to tell NIH if a grantee has been disciplined because of harassment findings. NIH calls the policy a “major step” to close loopholes that have allowed institutions to hide harassment cases from the agency. “There’s no question that we’re going to be hearing…

We definitely get to see some of the most bizarre incidents on the roads. A few months ago we saw theft from a moving truck on a highway. This time, a trucker sped away with a toll official to avoid paying toll charges. The video of the toll booth official hanging for his dear life has become viral on the Internet. The video is from the Nandyal district of Andhra Pradesh. In the video, we can see a toll booth official hanging in the front of the truck while the driver shows no intention of slowing down or stopping. The…

The Sokoto State Police Command said it has arrested two suspects in connection with the lynching of Deborah Samuel, a female student of Shehu Shagari College of Education who was lynched by a mob on Thursday. Ms Samuel was said to be 200 level student of the Department of Early Childhood Education in the college. The victim was accused of blasphemy against Muhammad, a Muslim prophet, in a voice note she sent on her class WhatsApp group. A statement by Sanusi Abubakar, the police public…

The first word that would pop into your brain to describe this drama, based on actual events, is “timely”. But, tragically, that means little given the regularity with which people die at the hands of US police, either by accident or design. The killing at the centre of director David Midell’s almost unbearably tense film happened in White Plains, NY, in 2011. However, as there are only audio recordings, forensic reports and witness statements to document what happened, Chamberlain’s death didn’t capture the public…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Inadequate training has been blamed for a lack of confidence among police officers dealing with hate crimes targeted at disabled people. A new report from the…

Mahindra Scorpio has been part of the police force and Indian government for a very long time now. It is still the preferred SUV considering the capability and the road presence that it offers. However, the SUV has started to show its age and fortunately, it will soon be replaced with a new generation. Currently, the XUV700 is the newest vehicle from Mahindra and it is a hit in the Indian market. Here, we have a rendering of the XUV700 as a police car.   The rendering of the vehicle is done by Amar Naik. The images…