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20 Dec
The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG), on Friday, criticized the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) for its recently released Crime Experienced and Security Perception Survey (CESPS) 2024, describing it as misleading, fabricated, and politically motivated. NBS recently released a report titled, 'Crime Experienced and Security Perception Survey (CESPS) 2024,' claiming that between May 2023 and…
18 Dec
The Federal Government, through the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), has debuted a concept tailored towards reporting issues within the polity that are data-backed and aimed at addressing conjectures. The latest, called the Crime Experience and Security Perception Survey (CESPS), is a novel concept that seeks to ensure that information rolled out to the public…
29 Oct
The 2024 Mega Security Conference of the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), Edo State Command, has highlighted
3 Oct
UK police investigating a suspected acid attack outside a London school that left two teenagers in hospital, one with potentially life-changing injuries, arrested a 35-year-old man on Thursday. Three people in total were injured when a substance was thrown at students and a staff member outside the Westminster Academy school in west London on Monday…
30 Sep
South Korean regulators on Monday hailed productive talks with messaging app Telegram over a deepfake porn crisis in the country. In August, media and authorities uncovered a sprawling network of Telegram chatrooms in South Korea, often set up within schools and universities, in which users shared AI-generated deepfake porn depicting female students and staff. The…
23 Sep
German police in the central Hesse region said Monday they had raided dozens of properties in a crackdown against sex abuse of minors and child pornography. Police and prosecutors identified a total of 48 suspects, all men aged between 15 and 68, in last week's sweeping raids in Frankfurt and smaller cities and towns. Seven…
23 Sep
A teenage boy has died after being stabbed in southeast London, police in the British capital said Monday, before a nationwide ban on "zombie" style weapons to reduce knife crime. The Metropolitan Police said the boy was found injured after officers were called to a disturbance on a residential street in Woolwich at about 1735…
18 Sep
Police revealed Tuesday they had infiltrated and taken down an encrypted chat app called Ghost used by criminals across the world. The operation, coordinated by the European Union's police agency Europol, is the latest in a string of takedowns of chat apps that have led to hundreds of criminal prosecutions. - What is Ghost? -…
2 Sep
Kenyan prosecutors said Monday they extradited a man accused of murdering his girlfriend in the United States in a case that made headlines after he escaped police custody in Nairobi. Kevin Kang'ethe was the subject of a three-month international manhunt after he fled the United States for his native Kenya following the killing of Margaret…
28 May 2024
Hong Kong police arrested six people on Tuesday under the city's new security law for "posting messages with seditious intention" online. Five women and one man aged between 37 and 65 were arrested Tuesday, said the National Security Department of the Hong Kong Police Force in a statement. One of the women arrested was already…
21 May 2024
Kwara State government has raided and taken away 158 marked beggars believed to be 'arms depots' for criminals in the state. They were
16 Feb 2024
The Commissioner of Police (CP), Lagos State Command, Mr Ayoade Fayoade, says the force has reactivated its tracking device to checkmate kidnap and one-chance incidents in the state.

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