Police in Togo raided a church whose pastor was suspected of Satanism, and found a panther's pelt, hyena paws, vulture eggs, and a hunchback's hump.
Police in Dallas discovered that about half the cocaine and one fourth of the methamphetamine they confiscated last year was fake, which led to the dismissal of 24 criminal cases, all of which involve a single informer who was paid $200,000 by the police department for his efforts.
Police arrested a Gulf War veteran and his teenage Jamaican sidekick in the Washington sniper case, ending a media frenzy that included a request by CNN to interview actors from the CBS series “Crime Scene Investigation.” Lengthy footage was broadcast of a tree stump being dug up and hauled away.
Officers questioned reported that their initial probationary training was satisfactory, but that subsequent training was insufficient to keep them updated about new legislation and operational developments in police work.
Officers in the Hughes study (Hughes et al., 1996) stated that child protection units were often overlooked when new research, policies, protocols, and techniques were disseminated to other specialized police units, and felt this was due to a general belief among management that such issues were irrelevant to CSA investigations.
Officers typically report that the police community considers child protection to be lower in status and importance than other police work and expressing their belief that child sexual assault is not a serious crime (Lieb, et al, 1997, Willis and Wells, 1988).
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