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• the Bangladesh Police inherits much of its structure from the police of British India and contributes to U.N. peace-keeping missions?
• the physician Marie Equi became an anarchist after being attacked by police, while she was picketing during a strike supported by the Industrial Workers of the World?
• the 18th-century James "Squire" Patton House in New Windsor, New York, is now a training facility for the city of Newburgh police K-9 unit?
• the Gurkha Contingent of the Singapore Police Force is the world's only police department outside of Nepal to be comprised of Gurkhas, and it is currently the only military or police unit in Singapore to be headed by a Briton?
• the LAPD Air Support Division in Los Angeles is the nation's largest municipal airborne law enforcement organization?
• there are fifteen distinct police agencies enforcing law in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
• the Police Act 1964 gave the British Home Secretary the power to enact compulsory amalgamation of police forces in England and Wales?
• psychological offender profiling was used by British police for the first time in capturing John Duffy, the so-called Railway Killer?
• in his only armed clash with the police, bushranger James Alpin McPherson was unable to effectively return fire as his gun was loaded with blanks?
• Jacob Aaron Westervelt (pictured), the former Mayor of New York City, attempted to uniform the Police of New York, a move seen by some as "un-American"?
• international reaction to 2008 Tibetan unrest has included police protecting the Chinese embassy in Reykjavík, Iceland, from a peaceful demonstration?
• Central Sikh Temple was Singapore's first gurdwara when it was initially set up in a police barracks in the 1880s?
• a police officer in the United States may only briefly detain and frisk a person if there is reasonable suspicion that the person is involved in a crime?
• a Sub Inspector or S.I. is the rank of an Indian police officer who is in command of a police station?
• former Louisiana legislative auditor Steve Theriot investigated a police-operated toy charity which uncovered various improprieties at Mandeville City Hall?
• by using automatic number plate recognition, a CCTV network known as ANPR, police in the United Kingdom are able to track the movement of cars in real time and store vehicle movement information for five years?
• Louisiana District Judge Stephen J. Windhorst is a former reserve police officer who also served eight years in the Louisiana House of Representatives as an anti-crime advocate?

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