International Law Enforcement
The International Law Enforcement topic provides American law enforcement with police news from around the world, focusing on the latest developments in criminal syndicates, drug cartels, organized crime, and international terrorism. It also follows significant developments and events in other countries and explores how cops in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America enforce their laws.
As cartels adopt military-style tactics and technology, law enforcement must adapt training, coordination and awareness to meet a growing domestic threat
Cartels are flooding U.S. communities with unregulated vapes disguised as harmless products — here’s how sheriffs are fighting back with coordinated enforcement and federal pressure
From combating cross-border crime to safeguarding democratic values, our alliance rises above politics to protect both nations
Two top cops have resigned and UK officials are investigating the tabloid phone-hacking case
Police in India have arrested four men after seeing the footage
The teenager speeds backwards toward a roundabout and narrowly misses oncoming traffic as an unmarked police car and back-up vehicles attempt to stop him
As U.S. interdiction efforts curtailed the Caribbean drug flow, and Colombian cartels were dismantled with U.S. help, Mexican cartels gained more prominence and power in the flow of cocaine and other drugs
After an international manhunt, the FBI caught 81-year-old James ‘Whitey’ Bulger and longtime girlfriend Catherine Greig at an apartment near Los Angeles
Illiteracy, terrorism among challenges in training Afghan forces
Hacker group called Anonymous targets Spanish police
So-called “Narco Polo” shirts are becoming ubiquitous in street vendors’ stalls after seven high-ranking drug traffickers who were arrested wearing the familiar horseman-with-a-stick emblem.
Vultures are thought to be better than sniffer dogs at finding bodies over large, dense areas
Police refused to comment about explosive device, then launched communication using hashtag #watfordbomb
Several gunmen shot Jose Manuel Rivas Lopez, 41, after storming into his home in Juarez
Deranged suspect chased cops for several minutes before 35 cops with riot shields disarmed him
Zapata Espinoza, known by the nickname ‘Tweety Bird’ is now at the beginning of an extradition process that is complex and could take years
The U.S. will use its military might to strike back if it should come under a cyberattack that threatened national security, Obama says
U.S. imam, 2 sons charged with supporting Taliban
The 20-year-old driver is in jail after this dangerous British pursuit last month
She took 848 days off in five years
Officers swooped on three squats across the capital just 24 hours before William and Kate marry at Westminster Abbey
Dropped a “failure to help” case in the 2005 deaths of two teens after weeks of rioting around France
They have been stripped of their weapons, along with another female officer who is said to be involved in the case
It was not clear whether the gunman, who is believed to be a former student at the school, shot himself or was killed by police
They sprayed foam at police guarding government offices during the protest
Politicians from across the political divide have condemned the attack
In part two of this three-part series, Police1 Contributor Roy Bedard recalls a discussion he’d had with a police trainer in the Czech Republic