The Liberian government says it has commenced a drastic crackdown on armed robbers under a special operation code named, "Operation Thunderstorm."

GUNMEN, yesterday, invaded the Bonny Police station, killing an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), one Inspector, two Sergeants and one Constable.

The threat by prison warders to release rapists, murderers and robbers in their custody is chilling and should be a wake-up call for authorities to address the officers' plight.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped unhurt yesterday after an assassination attempt by Taliban fighters who fired guns and rockets at an official celebration in the capital, Kabul. Afghan military personnel, some in ceremonial uniforms, run from an attack on President

Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka Sunday came face to face with the stark realities of the hardships facing prison warders when he toured Thika prison.

The crisis in Kenya's correctional institutions was set to deepen Sunday after striking prison warders rejected a team set up to look into their grievances.

A FUGITIVE senior police officer accused of murdering his wife turned himself in this morning, ending a weeklong manhunt mounted by the police.

One week later, there are still no answers to what caused the inferno that burnt 20 children to death at Budo Junior School.

AS part of the preparation for the maiden edition of The People Police Marathon, the Inspector General of Police, Sir Mike Okiro, will be hosting the business elites to a dinner on Friday, May 9 at the Lagoon Restaurant, Victoria

A TEACHER of Uganda Martyrs' Senior Secondary School Namugongo was on Friday night murdered by gangsters.

THE defence and internal affairs committee on Thursday put to task Matia Kasaija, the internal affairs state minister, to explain why petty offenders were being sent to congested prisons by the Police.

Northwest treasury accountants have been warned against embezzling public funds.

She was supposed to give medicine to patients who came to Kyondo Health Centre. Instead, Rhoda Kabugho, a nursing officer, is behind bars, accused of selling that medicine to a Bushenyi drug shop owner.

The hearing of a case in which two police officers are facing charges of stealing seized illicit drugs worth over Sh176 million from the police anti-drugs unit in Dar es Salaam, continues today.

For the first time in almost five years, the Liberian government has ordered that the police be rearmed to deter armed criminals and also combat crimes.

The man who led the death squad that murdered Mozambique's foremost investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso, in November 2000, on Monday changed his story and claimed that the killing was ordered by the late Nyimpine Chissano, the oldest son of former

Reports of fraud in the exercise to compensate 88 people whose houses and business premises were illegally demolished by the Ilala Municipal Council in Tabata Dampo, Dar es Salaam, earlier this year are cause for grave concern.

Lagos State governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has appealed to President Umaru Musa Yar'adua to expedite action on the request of the state government for deployment of military men to complement the efforts of policemen in crime prevention.

The Liberian government says it has ordered the police to be rearmed to contain the rising wave of arm robbery in the country.

Reports that the killing of albinos is continuing unabated in Lake Zone regions show that not enough is being done to stamp out the scourge despite all the promises being made by politicians and the police.