Surveillance

Edward Snowden was among the winners of a Swedish human rights award, sometimes referred to as the 'alternative Nobel,' for his disclosures of top secret surveillance programs.

A major operation was conducted by police in Istanbul late on Sept. 20, with almost 15,000 police officers raiding numerous addresses

Police in Athens were investigating the circumstances surrounding a car accident that led to a man's death on Petrou Ralli Avenue in the early hours of Thursday.

The victim's charred remains were retrieved from a burned vehicle by firemen who were called to the scene on Thursday.

Initial reports suggested that the victim's car hit a utility pole before bursting into flames.

US authorities threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it failed to comply with a secret surveillance program requiring it to hand over user data in the name of national security, court documents showed Thursday.

Security assessment for gay parade "in 2 weeks"

BELGRADE -- Interior Minister Nebojša Stefanović says the final security assessment for the Belgrade Pride event, announced for September 28, will be known in two weeks.

He added that the police are "prepared for this event."

The Justice Department could open a wide-ranging investigation into the practices of the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department as early as Thursday following the shooting last month of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb.
     
A person briefed on the matter said Missouri officials were notified Wednesday of the probe.
     

Regional police benefit from introducing EU standards, practices

Nations are sharing ways to accomplish the goals of community policing.

Balkan police forces are introducing EU norms and practices in their work, leading to more accountable and transparent police forces, experts said.

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Dozens of Turkish police officers, including a former chief of a police financial unit, were detained on Sept. 1 in the third wave of arrests over allegations that officers were involved in plotting against the government.

An exchange of fire between two gunmen who held up a meat hypermarket in the area of Rendi, southern Athens, and officers of the police's motorcycling unit DIAS late on Thursday resulted in the fatal injury of one of the suspects while the other was arrested, police said.

A survey laid bare the distrust the public harbors toward police in the United States on Monday, the same day a funeral was held for a black teenager shot dead by a white policeman.