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Council Bluffs Police recruit experienced to track down electronics

August 24, 2023 Audrey

Fulfill Murphy, the most recent member of the Council Bluffs Police Legal Investigation Division.

Certified digital storage detector Murphy designs off her Tactipup tactical doggy harness on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023.

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The sweet and affable black Labrador is a experienced electronic detection expert, ready to sniff out digital devices that use memory, from a thing as compact as a microSD or SIM card to mobile telephones to really hard drives.

Her focus on? Persons concerned in ICAC — World wide web Crimes Versus Young children.

“When we get, like, a NCMEC (National Heart for Lacking and Exploited) tip in for little one pornography or boy or girl exploitative materials, when we conclude up serving research warrants on these people’s residences, if they’re seriously crafty they’re going to consider to hide their devices,” claimed Det. Anthony Fletcher, Murphy’s husband or wife. “That’s what her most important function is — to go in and find individuals digital devices that they you should not want us to find, that we may well not uncover for the duration of our standard look for, for the reason that she can locate a little something concealed in a wall. We’re not going to tear up a wall. Properly, she can however obtain it.”

Fletcher reported that Murphy’s snoot can detect a cellular phone that has been submerged in a complete can of paint with the lid sealed, or concealed underwater.

“She can uncover telephones that have been thrown in h2o,” Fletcher reported. “During my instruction with her final 7 days, we in fact practiced in a creek. A bunch of phones ended up hidden under the h2o. Got her down there, received her in the water, most likely chest superior to her, and she was ready to adhere to the scent that was coming down the creek all the way back again to the mobile phone and pinpoint it.”

Certified electronic storage detector Murphy, sitting down, with her associate, Det. Anthony Fletcher of the Council Bluffs Law enforcement Criminal Investigation Division, on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023.

Murphy and Fletcher are just back again from a two-week instruction class in Indianapolis, taught by a person named Todd Jordan.

Jordan begun training digital detection dogs in 2014 with a pet named Bear, who would later on grow to be well-known for his participation in a raid of the residence of previous Subway spokesman and current inmate at the Englewood Federal Correctional Establishment in Englewood, Colorado, Jared Fogle.

“(Jordan’s) like the selection one man that trains these dogs,” Fletcher claimed. “So what he does, he in fact rescues therapy puppies who really don’t get positioned with people with disabilities for one particular motive or an additional, and due to the fact they didn’t get positioned with a particular disability, he takes them in, trains them for their scent detection things.”

Electronic detection dogs are properly trained to detect a chemical termed triphenylphosphine oxide, or TPPO, which is applied to stop

Police seize medicines and electronics in Bahrain Victorious Tour de France raids

July 10, 2022 Audrey

Medicines and electronics have been seized in law enforcement raids on the Bahrain Victorious staff this 7 days, French authorities verified on Thursday night.

Riders and workers associates experienced their households searched in an intercontinental anti-doping operation on Monday forward of their vacation to the Tour de France, and on Thursday Danish law enforcement swooped on the team’s hotel in Copenhagen a day prior to the begin of the Tour.

The Danish authorities would not comment on the matter at the time, pointing out that the investigation was being led by French police, but the general public prosecutor’s place of work in Marseille has now specified a assertion to French news agency AFP.

It confirms that objects have been seized and in depth that 3 riders’ properties were being searched. Bahrain Victorious’ Damiano Caruso explained to Cyclingnews on Thursday that he was one of the riders, but the many others have not been discovered.

“Amongst June 27 and 30, 2022, a collective intercontinental judicial and law enforcement procedure was carried out across Italy, Spain, Belgium, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, and Denmark,” read through the assertion.

“The operation, coordinated by Eurojust with the assist of Europol, authorized the judicial and law enforcement authorities of individuals nations around the world to carry out many queries at the households of the manager, three riders, the osteopath, and a doctor of the qualified cycling team Bahrain Victorious, as properly as at the headquarters of Winning SRL, the team’s holding organization.

“A search of lodge rooms occupied by associates of the cycling crew in Copenhagen was also carried out today.”

The assertion went on to clarify that goods, which include medications, experienced been seized as portion of the operation.

In a assertion relating to the lodge raid, Bahrain Victorious had stated that “no objects have been seized.” The police assertion did not specify which lookups resulted in seizures.

“Digital product (phones, computer systems, really hard drives) and medications – of which the nature and origin continue to be undetermined, or which have to have a prescription – have been seized,” read the assertion.

“The goods seized will be topic to investigation and even more investigation.”

The procedure follows on from an investigation that broke cover at past year’s Tour de France, in which Bahrain Victorious’ lodge in Pau was raided in the middle of the night time. It relates to the potential “acquisition, transportation, possession and importing of a prohibited compound or approach for use by an athlete without justification by members of Workforce Bahrain Victorious” according to past year’s police statement.

Last year, screening of riders’ hair samples reportedly uncovered traces of the impressive muscle mass relaxant Tizanidine, which is not prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Company but could reveal off-label use of the drugs. No other conclusions have been confirmed.

Bahrain Victorious insist there has been no wrongdoing, and that they have complied with the authorities. Nonetheless, they have complained of a lack of interaction from French police and indicated in the wake

After George Floyd’s murder, police built a secretive surveillance machine that lives on

March 8, 2022 Audrey

The next day, school was canceled. In response to the chaos of the previous night, the Brooklyn Center City Council hurried to pass a resolution banning aggressive police tactics such as rubber bullets, tear gas, and “kettling,” in which groups of protesters are blocked into a confined space. A curfew was also put into effect from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. The council’s resolution went into effect by nightfall on the 12th, but police continued using the banned tactics and munitions. That night, approximately 20 businesses in the area were broken into.

As part of the operation, Minneapolis Police also summoned helicopters from Customs and Border Protection (part of the US Department of Homeland Security). The presence of circling aircraft would become a hallmark of Operation Safety Net. During the peak of the protests, the helicopters came and went from a difficult-to-access industrial area near the Mississippi River between Brooklyn Center and Minneapolis, flying at high altitudes to avoid detection.

On at least two nights during the height of the protests, which spanned nearly 10 days, law enforcement briefly detained and took detailed photographs of credentialed members of the press who were covering the events.

The ACLU, along with pro bono lawyers from private law firms Fredrikson & Byron P.A. and Apollo Law, recently settled a class action lawsuit against the Minnesota State Patrol over its treatment of journalists during the protests. The settlement requires the city to pay $825,000 to injured journalists, and a federal judge ordered an injunction lasting six years that prohibits Minnesota policing agencies from attacking and arresting journalists, or ordering them to disperse from the scene of a protest. (Similar allegations are still being pursued against the city of Minneapolis and several officials.)

On April 15, more than 75 community organizations, including the ACLU, issued a joint statement calling for the state to end OSN. “The state’s use of force against Minnesotans exercising their First Amendment rights in Brooklyn Center and militarization of our cities in response to police violence is wrong, traumatizing, and adding to the public health crisis of COVID, police brutality, and systemic racism,” the statement read. It called out the “continued use of militaristic tools of oppression to intimidate and halt peaceful, if justifiably angry, protest.” The NAACP also called for a stop to Operation Safety Net via Twitter.

The Minneapolis Legislative Delegation, a group of state legislators, sent a letter to Minnesota governor Tim Walz condemning OSN and asking for a “reevaluation of tactics.” Congresswoman Ilhan Omar also criticized OSN, likening it to “a military occupation” and calling on Walz and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey to “stop terrorizing people who are protesting the brutality of state sanctioned violence.” On April 22, the US Department of Justice announced an investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department, citing a possible pattern of excessive use of force including in response to protests. The investigation is ongoing.

All told, the operation cost tens of millions of public dollars, paid by the participating

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