organization:municipal police

China Orders Xinjiang’s Android Users to Install App That Deletes ’Terrorist’ Content
▻http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-orders-xinjiangs-android-users-to-install-app-that-deletes-terrorist-cont

Authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have ordered local residents to install an app on their cell phones that will monitor their activity for “terrorist” content, local sources told RFA on Thursday. "In order to achieve city-wide coverage in the antiterrorist video and audio clean-up, and to target people, materials and thinking for clean-up work, management and crackdowns, a technology company affiliated with the municipal police department has developed an app for Android (...)

#smartphone #Jingwang/CleanWebGuard #spyware #anti-terrorisme #Islam #surveillance (...)

##Jingwang/CleanWebGuard ##Android

South #Lebanon Police Outgunned
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/south-lebanon-police-outgunned

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This course is part of a plan launched recently to make the municipal police more effective locally. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah) This course is part of a plan launched recently to make the municipal police more effective locally. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah)

In the summer of 2013, Lebanon’s Interior and Municipalities Ministry sent pistols to #Tyre’s police force to use for their protection while they regulate traffic and respond to (...)

#Culture_&_Society #Articles #Internal_Security_Forces

No police for the Bedouin -
editorial

Haaretz

▻http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/no-police-for-the-bedouin.premium-1.525755

The Israel Police, which is capable of mobilizing large forces to destroy houses in Bedouin villages, invests almost no resources in fighting crime within those villages. The municipal police forces that deal with the Bedouin villages of the Negev have only two female investigators, and neither of them speaks Arabic. The impression is that the police force simply dismisses the Bedouin and doesn’t provide them with the services it is obligated to provide. Plans for improvement have been shelved. The State Comptroller’s Report issued warnings, but the police continued on its merry way.