8 Feb 2013

A fired police officer who threatened to bring “warfare” to the Los Angeles Police Department went on a shooting rampage that left a policeman and two others dead and set off an extraordinary...

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SWAT teams mobilised for summer training sessions

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1 Mar 2011

Some members of the Philippine SWAT team involved in last year's bungled rescue in the Manila bus siege were not convinced their bulletproof vests would protect them against the hostage-taker's...

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How not to handle a hostage crisis

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25 Aug 2010

Fury spreads at crisis tactics

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19 Oct 2007

It takes six months of specialised training to be selected for the elite Airport Security Unit.

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They could be tales from the darkest recesses of a James Ellroy novel about street-life in Los Angeles during the 1950s - suspects handcuffed then shot by police at point-blank range, or officers...

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If you are in the Philippines, in trouble, and need someone to shoot straight, do not ask the police.

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AS the jury in the O. J. Simpson case started debating his guilt or innocence, Los Angeles was bracing itself for another onslaught of racial violence when the verdict comes in.

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