The Italian authorities have been accused of resorting to police state-style tactics with the introduction of a new weapon to hunt down the nation's many tax dodgers.
Cables from Tunisia, another close American ally in the region, bluntly depict the regime of president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali as a sclerotic police state increasingly tarnished by nepotism.
The situation has prompted concerns that the Olympics, which are supposed to be an uplifting event for the nation and its visitors, would instead make London feel like a police state.
Some Arab analysts have sounded more informed warnings, fretting that a truncated northern Sudan could become an Islamist police state and that the impoverished South may soon relapse into internal strife.
The Topography memorial is built around the ruins of buildings where the Gestapo secret police, the SS and the Reich Security Main Office ran Hitler's police state from 1933 to 1945.
"I do not endorse actions that move Boston and our nation into a police state mentality, with surveillance cameras attached to every light pole in the city, " Commissioner Edward Davis said in prepared remarks for the House Homeland Security Committee.
Vehicles, including state police cruisers, were stuck in the deep snow, state police said, warning that stranded drivers should expect long waits for tow trucks.
Sean Haggerty, 44, a state trooper from New Hampshire, said he saw Boston police and Massachusetts state police trying to get through the broken barriers at the scene of one of the explosions.
Neither the Braintree police nor the state police had run much of an investigation.
State police and the state highway department also are investigating.
State police and the state highway department are also investigating.
State police investigators said they couldn't identify who shot the drone at Wing Pointe, and couldn't prove whether it was an accident, said David Beohm, spokesman for the Pennsylvania State Police.
In Monterrey's metropolitan area, there are 11 different municipal police forces, a state police, three branches of the federal police, and the army.
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Louisiana State Police spokeswoman Julie Lewis said state authorities have deferred to the FBI and have not opened an investigation.
Coast Guard investigators, island police, state troopers and the FBI are investigating the incident.
And yet the police and state prosecution have remanded him to custody and are planning on indicting him for manslaughter.
The lorry ended up on top of the bus, Gen Hussein al-Harithi, director of Abu Dhabi traffic police told state news agency WAM.
Scores of police and state troopers, some in riot gear, tried to clear the streets, and some officers used pepper spray to disperse demonstrators.
Mr Cory was appointed to examine claims of police and state collusion in a series of controversial Troubles killings, and was asked to decide in each case if an inquiry was necessary.
He enrolled in the LAPD Academy in February 2005 and spent four months on the streets as a trainee before being recalled to active duty for his stint in Iraq, police records state.
The evidence Tripi spoke of was compiled by a federal task force that looked into the Camacho murders for more than a year and was made up of Buffalo police detectives, FBI agents and state police.
But, whereas many of Abou El Fadl's contemporaries responded to such police-state tactics by embracing militant Islamism, the abuse only magnified his desire to find a community where he could speak his mind without fear of retribution from either secular or religious authorities.
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The two tourists boarded a public transportation van in Rio's Copacabana beach district, shortly after midnight on Saturday morning, said Alexandre Braga, police commissioner for Rio de Janeiro's state police force.
Timothy Alben of Massachussetts state police said he believed the suspect is still in the state.
New York State Police said long sections of Interstate 84 and the Taconic State Parkway were closed for several hours while crews cleared snow.
In 1971, 31 prisoners and 11 guards were killed when state police and National Guardsmen stormed Attica prison in New York State to end a five-day revolt.
Two police officers are expected to survive their injuries, said Delaware State Police Sgt Paul Shavack.
Police said Acevedo was cooperative and was taken to a Pennsylvania State Police barracks to await extradition proceedings.
Besides local police, the county sheriff's department and the Michigan State Police were involved in the investigation, according to local media reports.
Police initially treated the scene as an accident, although the Illinois State Police was later brought in to investigate.
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