Special police units have even been set up entirely paid for by the private sector.
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The creation of a special police unit to deal with the violence has been greeted with derision.
He controls 8, 000 well-trained special police, who have so far fended off a coup by Mr Milosevic's friends.
Last December, William Perry, then American secretary of defence, suggested they should set up a special police force to do just that.
Dumfries restaurant worker Farooq Ahmed, who is also a special police constable, started the appeal to bring her to the UK for treatment.
After his event at the campus of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Specter defended his decision to have Congress' special police force travel with him.
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The vehicles looked like those used by the Iraqi special police.
They managed to make it to an unidentified country's consulate, where officials took the two to the special police delegation that specializes in crimes against foreigners.
Cohen rejected calls from several congressional leaders to commit ground troops to stop a reported campaign of "ethnic cleansing" by Yugoslav troops and Serbian special police in Kosovo.
The Yugoslav army and Serb special police have been fighting in northwest Kosovo, near the border with Serbia's sister republic of Montenegro, and near the Albanian border.
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He argues that just as special army units were trained to fight the FARC in the jungle, special police units are needed to combat crime in the cities.
Certainly, Nicolas Sarkozy, the interior minister and leading centre-right presidential candidate for the 2007 election, has been tightening up on policing with, for instance, special police raids on criminal gangs.
"We do have the help of special police units, but the problem is that they can take 10, 20, 30 minutes to come, and a lot can happen in that time".
"We have not yet seen signs that Serbian troops or special police forces or paramilitary are moving out, but we've certainly seen preparations for moving out, " said Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon.
Was this a failure of Norwegian special police units?
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Hess, who was forced to retire as a judge in 1936 -- the same year he was beaten up by special police in front of his home -- had pleaded for leniency before.
Mr Gecas lost a libel action in 1992 against Scottish Television after it alleged that he had led atrocities against Jews in his native country and Belarus as the alleged head of a special police battalion.
Earlier this month the government took a bold step when special police nabbed Colonel Veselin Sljivancanin, who had been indicted for the deaths of more than 200 Croats captured when the Serbs took the Croatian town of Vukovar in 1991.
And just in case peace-makers might be in any doubt of the serious nature of the rebels' threat to the country's stability, Mr Boskovski's special police units shot dead five members of an ethnic-Albanian rebel group discovered hiding in Skopje.
The carabineros, a special rural police force, are only 47, 000 strong.
Agents for a special tourism police unit arrested Carlos Armando Costa dos Santos, 21 years old, Monday evening near his home in the outskirts of the city.
Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi, from South Africa's special Hawks police investigation unit, told the BBC the suspect would remain in custody until he was able to apply for bail next Monday.
The inquiry is being run by RAF Police Special Investigations and Intelligence Branch.
Special army and police units are also said to have arrested suspected saboteurs.
But neither MI5 or police Special Branch - who are supposed to monitor extreme groups - had heard of him before he was arrested and charged with bombing Brixton, Brick Lane and Soho - killing three and injuring 129.
Now match that assumption with the evidence presented on the second day of the trial by the director of the police's Special Branch, who told the court that the police had begun to investigate Mr Anwar's sexual conduct as long ago as 1992.
He has also served as a special constable with Wiltshire Police for four years.
South Wales Police said officers are continuously liaising with the Metropolitan Police, Special Branch and other emergency services.
The Bill repeals the Prevention of Terrorism Act but re-enacts provisions giving special powers to the police to counter terrorism.
The first anniversary of Operation Safeguard, special powers to use police cells to house convicts, comes up before that in October.
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