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4 unusual facts about police officer


1982 Individual Speedway World Championship

One of the stars of CHiPs was World Champion Bruce Penhall who portrayed cadet–probationary officer Bruce Nelson.

Frank Serpico

Francesco Vincent Serpico (born April 14, 1936) is a retired American New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who is most famous for blowing the whistle on police corruption in the late 1960s and early 1970s—an act of valor that compelled Mayor John V. Lindsay to appoint the landmark Knapp Commission to investigate the NYPD.

Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act

The Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) is a United States federal law, enacted in 2004, that allows two classes of persons—the "qualified law enforcement officer" and the "qualified retired law enforcement officer"—to carry a concealed firearm in any jurisdiction in the United States, regardless of state or local laws, with certain exceptions.

Nilavinte nattil

In the climax, the couple, with the help of their friend, who is a cop, get the baby back and kills the stranger.


Alexander Duncan

Alexander Duncan (police officer), Scottish police officer and Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police (Australia), 1937–1954

Case Ootes

During his tenure on the police services board, Ootes and Justice Hugh Locke were instrumental in the selection of the more centrist Bill Blair over Mike Boyd to succeed Julian Fantino as Police Chief.

Craig Mackinlay

In June 2012 Mackinlay was selected as the Conservative’s candidate in Kent for the Police and Crime Commissioner elections, beating off competition from Jan Berry, who was in charge of the Police Federation of England and Wales for several years, and former High Commissioner to Uganda, Francois Gordon.

Fort Douaumont

Kunze, now a police officer, received a promotion and Lieutenant Radtke got an autographed portrait of the now-deposed Crown Prince.

Hem Chandra Bose

He was Working in the Calcutta Anthropometric Bureau (before it became the Fingerprint Bureau) with Azizul Haque.

Hendon Police College

Other graduates included Deputy Assistant Commissioner John Bliss (1936–1937), first National Co-ordinator of Regional Crime Squads of England and Wales, Michael Macoun (1938–1939), Inspector-General of Police of Uganda and later of British Dependent Territories, and the politician Sir Henry Calley (1938–1939).

Henry Classification System

Developed by Azizul Haque and Sir Edward Henry in the late 19th century for criminal investigations in British India, it was the basis of modern day AFIS (Automated Fingerprint Identification System) classification methods up until the 1990s.

James F. Pastor

Dr. Pastor started his career with the Chicago Police Department where he served as a tactical police officer in the Gang Crime Enforcement unit combating Chicago gangs including the El Rukn, a group with ties to international terrorist groups.

Josef Ochs

Josef Ochs (March 31, 1905 in Schmitten – November 12, 1987) was a German Police officer and SS-Obersturmführer.

Lucy Panton

On 30 October 2010, Panton was asked by News of the World news editor James Mellor to find out more from Metropolitan Police anti-terror head John Yates about the printer cartridge bomb found on a cargo plane at East Midlands Airport the previous day.

Marie Owens

Marie Owens (1853-1927) is believed to have been the first female police officer in the U.S., joining the Chicago Police Department in 1891, and retiring in 1923.

Matt Lincoln

The focus of the program centered around the helpline, where he was assisted by Tag (Chelsea Brown) and Jimmy (Felton Perry), two "hip" young blacks; Ann (June Harding), an attractive young white woman, and Kevin, a somewhat cynical police officer.

Mogoeng Mogoeng

Constitutional expert Pierre de Vos has referred to Mogoeng as the most conservative member of the court, pointing to ambivalence over gay rights in Le Roux and Others v Dey and a "deferential" approach to the executive in The Citizen and Others v Robert McBride.

Murders of Adam Lloyd and Vanessa Arscott

The murders of Adam Lloyd and Vanessa Arscott in the Thai town of Kanchanaburi on September 9, 2004, were blamed on Somchai Wisetsingh, a decorated Thai police Officer.

Negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa

Among those released in 1992 were also death convicts like Barend Strydom and Robert McBride from the opposite ends of the political spectrum.

Operation Pathway

The name of the operation, and at least some of its details were inadvertently revealed when Assistant Commissioner for Special Operations Robert Quick was photographed entering Number 10 Downing Street with classified documents in plain sight.

Robert Mark

Peter Brodie, Assistant Commissioner "C" (Crime), was widely tipped to succeed him, but Home Secretary James Callaghan saw the opportunity to impose government will on the force and offered the job to Mark.

Running Battle

This game is basically a brawler where the police officer has to eliminate a series of armed thugs that are trying to take over his anonymous city.

Russell Poole

Poole is also known for investigating the March 18, 1997, killing of LAPD Officer Kevin Gaines by LAPD Officer Frank Lyga.

Sean Hoare

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson and his deputy commissioner John Yates resigned within a week of Hoare's statements.

The Sacred Art of Stealing

; Detective Inspector Angelique de Xavia : Glaswegian police officer and loyal Rangers F.C. supporter (despite the fact she is Catholic and her brother is a Celtic F.C fan) who feels isolated as a female Asian police officer.

Vasant Dhoble

Vasant Dhoble is an Indian police officer, currently serving as Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) in Mumbai.

Wade Dooley

He played for his country 55 times and was known as the "Blackpool Tower", as a result of being 6 feet 8 inches tall and a police officer with Lancashire Constabulary in Blackpool.

William J. McCormack

In 2007, he joined other former Toronto chiefs, including David Boothby, Jack Marks and Julian Fantino at a 50th anniversary celebration of the Toronto Police Service at the headquarters building.


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2005 French riots

In other incidents, a police officer was injured while making an arrest after youths threw bottles of acid at the town hall in Pont-l'Évêque, and a junior high school in Grenoble was set on fire.

Abar Byomkesh

At Dooars, Byomkesh makes his acquaintance with several Bengali inhabitants from the local community like Dr. Ashwini Ghatak (Sujan Mukherjee), Prof. Adinath Shome (Pijush Ganguly), Mahidhar Chaudhury (Biswajit Chakrabarty), photographer Nakuleshwar (Arindol Bagchi), police officer Purander Pandey (Kunal Padhy), deputy magistrate Umanath Ghosh (Chandan Sen) and banker Amaresh Raha (Kaushik Sen).

Arasangam

The film is about a police officer who discovers and unravels the mystery behind a terrorist gang plotting to steal information about the growth of the Indian economy, set in Chennai and Toronto.

Atlanta mayoral election, 1973

Other candidates were former Atlanta Police Officer John Chambers, Socialist Workers Party activist Debby Bustin, Hare Krishna community leader William Ogle, attorney John Genins, Betty Morrison, Ernest Moschella and write-in candidate Howard Tucker.

Azazel in popular culture

One of the best known is the body-switching demon fighting against a police officer in the movie Fallen with Denzel Washington.

Bakshi Badri Nath Chhibber

Rai Bahadur Bakshi Badri Nath Chhibber (1897-1988), was a highly decorated police officer in British and independent India.

Brisebois

Éphrem-A. Brisebois (1850 – 1890), Canadian, politician, soldier, and police officer

Caracappa

Stephen Caracappa, New York police officer convicted of working for the mafia

Case Closed: The Raven Chaser

After a police conference about this case, Conan discovers a police officer walking out of the building and entering a black Porsche 356A owned by Gin.

Chief fireman

In imperial Prussia, the title was known as brandmeister (from German Brand - "fire" and Meister - literally "master") and was the police officer, the chief of one of city fire-fighting crews.

D.I.G.

Deputy Inspector General, a high ranking senior police officer in several countries

Dave Blalock

Blalock appeared in the theatrical production of Friedrich Schiller's Wallenstein of Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel of Rimini Protokoll (2005–2007) where among a cast of ten people out of real life - such as a conservative politician unveiling his election campaign strategies, a German former Hitler Youth, Weimar's former chief police officer - to tell his story of a fragging in the midst of Intrigue, War & Death.

Dipaola

James DiPaola (1953–2010), American police officer and politician

El Cajon Police Department

William John Cox (Billy Jack Cox), public interest attorney, author and political activist served as a police officer and detective between 1962 and 1968.

Emilio Barzini

Corleone enforcer Al Neri, disguised as a police officer, meets Barzini on the steps of the New York Supreme Court courthouse at Foley Square on the pretext of writing a parking ticket.

Fateh Singh Rathore

He was a police officer and managed the family’s land and property in their village near Jodhpur.

Gaiji Keisatsu

The TV show follow a female police officer who was recruited into the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's anti-terrorist black ops unit known "publicly" as the Fourth Foreign Affairs Section, created after the 9/11 events in the United States.

Gandhinagar 2nd Street

A police officer (Thilakan) and his daughter (Karthika) move into the neighbourhood, bringing back memories from the past for Sethu.

Glenville Lovell

His current project is Too Beautiful to Die, a mystery novel published by Putnam and which centers around Blades Overstreet, a tough African-American ex-police officer.

Hamish Macbeth

Running for three series between 1995 and 1997, the titular police officer was played by Robert Carlyle: the first and second series comprised six episodes, the third had an additional 2-part series finale to make eight episodes.

Isabel Gillies

Prior to her role on SVU, Gillies appeared in "Bad Girl," an episode of the original Law & Order series, playing a young woman who murders an undercover police officer and then undergoes a religious conversion during her trial and is born again.

James F. Curtis

James Freeman Curtis II (1825–1914), 49er, Vigilante leader in San Francisco, its first Chief of Police, officer in the California militia and Volunteers in the American Civil War.

James Farragher

One skeptical observer, Murray Sperber, author of Shake Down the Thunder, speculates: "...when N.D. publicists began compiling the history of Notre Dame football, no one could ascertain who had coached in 1902 and 1903. Because Farragher had played on the team at the turn of the century and was a popular police officer on the Notre Dame campus in the 1930s, the publicists inscribed his name on one of the most prestigious lists in American sports–head football coach at Notre Dame".

Jason Michaels

Michaels was arrested on July 3, 2005, after allegedly punching a police officer as he left a nightclub in Old City, Philadelphia.

John Balcerzak

John Balcerzak is a police officer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and former president of the Milwaukee Police Association, having served in that post from 2005 to 2009.

Kevin Ward

Kevin L. Ward (born 1963), American police officer and Oklahoma Secretary of Safety and Security

Loraine Vélez

Their father was a New York City police officer, who eventually bought a house in the middle-class neighborhood of Queens and moved there with his wife and eight children.

Max Aardema

Max Aardema (born 1963) is a Dutch police officer and runner up Party for Freedom (PVV) party leader in the province of Friesland in the 2011 provincial elections.

Mohsen al-Sukkari

Mohsen al-Sukkari, is an Egyptian former police officer who, on 28 July 2008 murdered the well-known Lebanese artist Suzanne Tamim in Dubai, UAE on orders of Egyptian business tycoon and member of the Egyptian Parliament Hisham Talaat Moustafa in return for $2 million paid by Moustafa, according to statements made by the murderer to the investigators in Cairo.

MV Seabourn Legend

In the movie, LAPD Police Officer Alex Shaw (Jason Patric) and his girlfriend Annie Porter (Sandra Bullock) are trapped on the ship, where navigation computers have been reprogrammed by a computer hacker, (Willem Dafoe) setting the ship on a collision course with a supertanker.

Neill Franklin

Stanford "Neill" Franklin was a police officer in Maryland for 33 years and is now a Huffington Post blogger and the executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP).

Older than America

Adam Beach as John Goodfeather, Fond du Lac Reservation police officer and Rain's fiance

Out Where the Buses Don't Run

It featured guest star Bruce McGill as an eccentric retired police officer attempting to aid Metro-Dade detectives James "Sonny" Crocket and Ricardo Tubbs in the search for a missing drug lord.

Patrick Secker

Secker was booked by a police officer in April 2006 for tailgating a prime mover.

Poder Paralelo

According to Muniz, Téo is based on the federal police officer Protógenes Queiroz, responsible for the investigation and arrest of banker Daniel Dantas, accused of money laundering and convicted for attempting to bribe a federal police officer.

Randy Starks

On May 24, 2009, Starks was arrested by police for running into a police officer with a Freightliner truck on Ocean Drive in South Beach, Miami.

René Schickele

Schickele was born in Obernai, Alsace, the son of a German vineyard owner and police officer and a French mother.

Robert Bower

Sir Robert Lister Bower (1860–1929), British Army, colonial and police officer

Ryan Coogler

His first feature-length film, Fruitvale (later retitled Fruitvale Station), tells the story of the last 24 hours of the life of Oscar Grant, who was shot to death by a police officer at Oakland's Fruitvale BART station on January 1, 2009.

Saint-Henri, Montreal

Well-known people from Saint-Henri include strongman Louis Cyr, who served as a police officer there; the Place des Hommes-Forts and the Parc Louis-Cyr are named for him.

Sanjeeva Reddy Nagar

Located here is the well known statue of Chadalavada Umesh Chandra, a famous police officer who lost his life here, gunned down in the street by Naxalite terrorists.

Shooting an Elephant

The essay describes the experience of the English narrator, possibly Orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma.

The Skywalk Is Gone

After crossing a street illegally, she is stopped by a police officer, who checks her ID card.

Wan Chi Keung

His most famous role was a senior police officer in the Infernal Affairs trilogy.

Yellow Henry Gang

After two years, Lyons would be pardoned by Louisiana Governor Francis T. Nicholls in 1890 and again resumed the criminal activities with the gang until 1892, when New Orleans police arrested Lyons for the murder of a police officer and sentenced to life imprisonment with the Yellow Henrys' disbanding soon after.

Zoe Telford

Telford has appeared in several series, including as Eva Braun in Hitler: The Rise of Evil, as Anna Klein in Criminal Justice, as Marianne Swift, a freelance Daily Mail journalist in The Thick of It, as an undercover police officer in Ashes to Ashes, as Sarah, a doctor and Dr. Watson's romantic interest, in Sherlock.