Crime prevention

Authorities arrested a 20-year-old suspect on Saturday, one day after a shooting left five people dead at a mall in Washington. After an overnight manhunt that left the city on edge, the 20-year- old Arcan Cetin is in the hands of the police as a sustpect for killing four women and a man on Friday night at the Cascade Mall in Burlington.

A considerable part of the preparation for the upcoming elections is focused on counteracting possible hacker attacks like the ones in 2015, which blocked the sites of several institutions, including the Central Election Commission.

A system of cameras that can record audio will be installed in Ankara city buses as part of a series of security precautions introduced after multiple suicide bombings in the Turkish capital which have claimed scores of lives in the last six months. The system, which will be installed in nearly 2,000 buses, will be carried out according to a new protocol signed between the Ankara Metropolitan M

While the world is in a state of alert over information security, the awareness on the importance of this issue in Turkey is low, according to Minhac Çelik, the founder of the siberbulten.com website.

Experts see dangers in the way the government is approaching people's privacy. Alfred Olli, an expert in civil and public safety, told BIRN on Tuesday that the government cannot violently impose surveillance on citizens against their will.

Belgian authorities have been looking for the accomplice of Khalid El Bakraoui responsible for the deadly attacks at Brussels metro station, according to French newspaper Le Monde.

Authorities have released a sketch of a man filmed by surveillance cameras in the Brussels metro on Tuesday carrying a large bag alongside Khalid El Bakraoui just before the explosion occurred.

Two unidentified men were involved in a petrol station armed robbery on Irakliou Avenue, in Neo Heraklion, Athens, the early hours of Monday. The two individuals forced the cashier of the petrol station at gun point to hand over the cash before fleeing the scene. Police investigations are under way to detect and apprehend the culprits.

Unbelievable video footage from a town in China shows a car ramming into a fast food store at high speed. The footage was captured from the store’s CCTV security cam, Customers can be seen in the store as the vehicle suddenly hurts onto the scene! The velocity of the vehicle can be ascertained by the fact that at some point it is in mid air as it enters the shop.

One of the two attackers of a cash security van in the Bulgarian town of Sredets, Burgas Region, has confessed to an armed robbery attempt, the Ministry of the Interior said on Monday.

The Albanian police have started to equip their forces in the field with body cameras that they must wear on appointed shifts.

Tirana is the first city where police forces have started to use their cameras. Some 584 have been bought and are now being installed into police uniforms in the city.