Rioters to be traced through crowdsourcing app
The Metropolitan Police have uploaded thousands of images of people suspected of crimes during the 2011 London riots to a new app – and want the public to help identify them.
View ArticleCrackdown on organised crime sees 236 searches, more than 50 arrests
Operation Wireless is part of an ongoing strategy targeting the criminal activity and organised criminal actions of a number of selected targets.
View ArticleOrange Order condemns two vandal attacks on Orange Halls
Fourscore Orange Hall near Glenavy and Loughanreagh Orange Hall in Coleraine were attacked by vandals.
View ArticleHackers steal €36m from European banks using computer virus
The virus infected both computer and smartphones in order to monitor and manipulate online banking sessions.
View ArticleTaxi bill would “remove serious criminals” from sector
The bill is being proposed by Public Transport Minister Alan Kelly and would also bring in CCTV on taxi ranks.
View ArticleThief tries to steal woman’s handbag and is immediately hit by a bus
Someone must have called the Karma police.
View Article25 ‘travelling criminals’ arrested over stolen metal
Gardaí carried out 72 searches, 260 checkpoints and 402 targeted patrols into the ongoing investigation of metal theft.
View ArticleColumn: Ending the death penalty – a view from Texas
Former inmates are among those gathering to fight capital punishment at a world congress event that begins today, but Kirstin Houle from Texas says theirs is a daily struggle they know they will win.
View ArticleMoving inmates from St Pat’s to adult prison “won’t make one iota of difference”
A prison officer in St Patrick’s says all the current problems in St Patrick’s Institution will just be recreated when the inmates move to Wheatfield Prison.
View ArticleInterpol seize fake goods worth more than €100 million
Fake shampoo, cigarettes, beer and counterfeit clothing and DVDs were just a few items discovered in one of the agency’s largest operations ever conducted.
View Article11 criminals who are far too stupid for their chosen career
You won’t believe these guys.
View ArticleEU directive will make it easier to freeze and confiscate criminals’ assets
The directive will enable authorities in countries across Europe to confiscate assets even if the suspect or accused person is ill or has left the region.
View ArticleCrime figures show fall in homicides, but rise in kidnappings
Reported murders and manslaughters were down 11 per cent between 2008-2012.
View ArticleMillion euro paintings stolen in London in the 1970s have been recovered in...
The works are by French artists Paul Gauguin and Pierre Bonnard.
View ArticleFamily of five terrorised at gunpoint during armed robbery in Limerick
There were three young children in the house when the masked men with guns broke in to their home.
View ArticleTwo due in court over €1.5m cannabis haul
The two men were arrested yesterday by gardaí targeting a criminal gang based in Tallaght, south Dublin.
View Article15-year-old in court as drivers warned about spate of carjackings
A teenager will appear in court today after a taxi driver had his car hijacked in the early hours of Sunday morning.
View ArticleMan arrested as €800,000 worth of cannabis found in Kildare house
40kg of cannabis herb was found in Crossmorris.
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