Chief inspector is jailed for 14 months after using police computer to look up confidential details for drug-dealing cleaner he was having affair with Chief Inspector Joseph Jones, 48, was jailed for misusing force’s computer The senior police officer, from Swansea, looked up details of woman’s tenants Crime was uncovered […]
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Huizhong Wu China correspondent based in Taiwan Huizhong_Wu By GARANCE BURKE, JOSEF FEDERMAN, HUIZHONG WU, KRUTIKA PATHI and ROD McGUIRK December 21, 2022 GMT https://apnews.com/article/technology-police-government-surveillance-covid-19-3f3f348d176bc7152a8cb2dbab2e4cc4 JERUSALEM (AP) — Majd Ramlawi was serving coffee in Jerusalem’s Old City when a chilling text message appeared on his phone. “You have been spotted […]
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Police arrested an elderly northwest Columbia man Wednesday on suspicion of having child pornography. Police searched the home of Ivan Metzger, 76, in the 1800 block of Parklawn Drive with detectives from the Boone County Cyber Crimes Unit, the Columbia Police Department said on social media. The […]
By GARANCE BURKE and JASON DEAREN September 2, 2022 GMT https://apnews.com/article/technology-police-government-surveillance-d395409ef5a8c6c3f6cdab5b1d0e27ef Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool, at times without search warrants, that gives them the power to follow people’s movements months back in time, according […]
The Buffalo Police Department’s computer network went down Friday evening and has not worked since, Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said Sunday. Police officers cannot make police reports into the system and must fill out all paperwork by hand. The department’s email system is also down. The 911 system, however, is […]