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KNOXVILLE — A visiting law-enforcement officer from Maine reported that his gun and badge were stolen from his vehicle at a West Knox County apartment complex this week, according to authorities. The officer, with Maine's Cumberland County Sheriff's Office, was attending a training session at the National Forensics Academy in Oak Ridge, according to the Knox County Sheriff's Office.

Note: Victim is a " D.C. Courthouse security guard" according to the article." # http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Car-Stolen-With-Service-Weapon-Inside-81090922.html "Jaguar Stolen With Gun, Security Badge Police say they are still looking for the car" By ANDY SALSMAN Updated 12:41 PM EST, Sun, Jan 10, 2010 SNIPPET: "Police say they are still looking for the car, as well as a black Ford Expedition that may be connected to the case. The suspect is described as a black male, possibly in his 20's, with shorter length dreadlocks, slim build. He was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans."

Note: The following text is a quote: September 30, 2009 O'Hare Airport temporary staffing employees sentenced for harboring illegal aliens who were given access to secure areas Assisted illegal workers in obtaining unauthorized airport security badges CHICAGO - The owner of a Bensenville temporary employment agency and her assistant were sentenced in federal court Wednesday for harboring illegal aliens and assisting those workers in obtaining unauthorized access to secure areas at O'Hare International Airport, including the tarmac. The sentences resulted from a multi-agency federal investigation conducted in 2007 and led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Mary Gurin, 38,...

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/0902/090227la.htm ICE agents seek information on bogus law enforcement badges LOS ANGELES - Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are seeking information from people who may have received in the mail what appear to be, genuine law enforcement badges and credentials, from a group calling themselves the "International Police Commission (IPC)." These fraudulent police credentials and badges imply that those who use them are police officers with United Nations and Interpol authorities, according to ICE investigators. The fake items, manufactured in the Philippines, have been mailed out to targeted individuals...

There are a few scenes in classic movies that are so effective that the dialogue has passed into the common language. One of those is in The Treasure of Sierra Madre. Mexican bandits have confronted American gold miners, including Humphrey Bogart. The bandits claim to be federal police. Challenged to produce their badges, one gives the memorable reply, “Badges? We don’t need no steenkin’ badges.” And then they begin shooting. Well a situation began in New Jersey, then played out in the Court of Appeals of Maryland, which justifies the modified use of that line. It also should concern all...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Halfway across the continent from where Buffalo Bill roamed and Custer made his last stand, the mayor of this debt-ridden city spent millions in public money on everything from six-shooters to covered wagons for a museum about cowboys, Indians and the Wild West. And he did it without telling the City Council, whose members felt as if they had been hit by the swinging doors of a frontier saloon when they found out from a reporter in 2003. On Saturday, the other dusty cowboy boot will drop when hundreds of the items go on the auction...

MOSUL — Eleven Soldiers of the 169th Fires Brigade, Colorado Army National Guard, received the Combat Action Badge Saturday in a ceremony here. “This is the best way to present this badge, to all of you who faced the enemy and returned unscathed,” said Brig. Gen. Francis J. Wiercinski, the deputy commanding general for Multi-National Division-North. During a military movement on January 29th a roadside bomb detonated near the vehicles carrying 11 Soldiers and the brigade commander of the 169th Bde., along with the deputy commander of the 4th Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division out of Ft. Hood, Texas. There were...

U.S. Army Spc. Blake Wise, a combat medic with 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, receives a Combat Medical Badge from Col. Bryan Owens, the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division commander, at Forward Operating Base Brassfield-Mora, Iraq, Jan. 28, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Amanda Morrissey Airborne Division Soldiers Receive Combat Badges By Spc. Amanda Morrissey 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment SAMARRA, Iraq, Jan. 29, 2007 -- Various combat badges were awarded here yesterday to soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, who have faced enemy contact in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom....

SAN ANTONIO More than 37-hundred Transportation Security Administration badges and uniforms have gone missing since 2003. That's according to records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by W-O-A-I-T-V in San Antonio. Los Angeles International Airport reported the most missing items -- 636 uniforms. O'Hare International Airport in Chicago reported 189 badges missing. Bush International Airport in Houston reported 77 missing badges. Security experts say badges and uniforms could end up in the wrong hands -- posing a national security threat. Despite the thousand of missing items, T-S-A field operations general manager Earl Morris says the system is far from...

SACRAMENTO - Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez on Friday barred lawmakers from handing out badges bearing the chamber's seal after one legislator awarded policelike "Assembly commissioner" badges to friends, relatives and campaign contributors. Nuñez, D-Los Angeles, said badges with the seal should be carried only by lawmakers themselves "for security and identification purposes. Period. This change in policy will prevent any possible misuse in the future." He acted after the Assembly Rules Committee chairman reported that Entenmann-Rovin, the Los Angeles company that makes the badges, had been selling ones carrying the seal without approval of the Assembly's sergeant at arms. The...

SACRAMENTO -- A veteran black lawmaker says an investigation into his practice of giving replica Assembly badges to friends and donors is racially motivated and called the Democrat leading the inquiry "the most racial legislator" he has known. Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally, D-Compton, made the statement about Assemblyman Hector De La Torre, D-South Gate, Thursday in an e-mailed response to a capital news service. "Assemblyman De La Torre is the most racial legislator I have encountered in over 40 years," Dymally wrote in the e-mail to CTNS television service. The service sent a transcript of its e-mail interview to its subscribers...

CROMWELL -- Local worm salesmen, beware. As 13-year-old Joe Cadieux learned recently, Cromwell can be a hostile environment for those looking to break into night crawler vending - particularly if they advertise with a yard sign. A worm business that Joe has operated since he was 10 was shut down two weeks ago when Cromwell's planning and zoning commission issued a cease-and-desist order because the teenager's sign violated local zoning regulations It's ridiculous," said the middle school student, who made $5 to $10 a month selling worms collected from his front yard, where they are plentiful after spring rainstorms. Most...

Iran is denying reports that it has passed legislation requiring its Jews to wear yellow cloth strips to single them out, its Christians to wear a red version and Zoroastrians a blue one. Some are unpersuaded. The Simon Wiesenthal Center's Rabbi Marvin Hier, for instance, is adamant "that the national uniform law was passed and that certain colors were selected for Jews and other minorities." But Teheran is adamant and scandalized. The reports of such Nazi-echoed branding "are slanderous accusations… a smear campaign," according to an outraged Iranian government spokesman. So that's all right then? We can all relax? Hardly....

Israeli politicians are sounding some very dire notes, but as far as I know, no one’s independently confirmed this morning’s story in the National Post yet. Neither Stephen Harper nor John Howard had heard anything about it until today. And a friend of mine with contacts in Iran says he can’t find anyone who thinks it’s true. Liberal Catnip links to a report from Montreal radio quoting one expert as saying it’s false.

Jewish MP denies Iran badge plan From correspondents in Tehran 20may06 IRAN'S only Jewish MP strongly denied reports in a Canadian newspaper overnight that Iran may force non-Muslims to wear coloured badges in public so they can be identified. "This report is a complete fabrication and is totally false," Maurice Motammed said in Tehran. "It is a lie, and the people who invented it wanted to make political gain" by doing so. The National Post newspaper quoted human rights groups as saying that Iran's parliament passed a law this week setting a public dress code and requiring non-Muslims to wear...

OTTAWA (AFP) - The Canadian and Australian prime ministers expressed concern at unconfirmed reports that said Iran may force non-Muslims to wear colored badges in public so they can be identified. The National Post newspaper reported Friday, citing human rights groups, that Iran's parliament passed a law this week that sets a public dress code and requires non-Muslims to wear a special insignia. Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians would be forced to wear a yellow, red or blue strip of cloth, respectively, on the front of their clothes, according to the newspaper. "Anything of that kind would be totally repugnant to...

Iran may force badges on Jews, Christians TEHRAN, May 19 (UPI) -- Iran's parliament passed a new law this week that would force the country's Jews, Christians and other religious minorities to wear color-coded ID badges. Iranian expatriates confirmed reports the Iranian parliament, or majlis, has approved a law that would require non-Muslims to adhere to a dress code which mandates they wear "standard Islamic garments," according to Canada's National Post. The roughly 25,000 Jews living in the Islamic Republic would have to attach a yellow strip of cloth to their clothing, Christians would wear red badges and Zoroastrians would...

INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. (Army News Service, May 18, 2006) - Soldiers can serve on the battlefield with confidence knowing the world’s best medics are there to help if they become injured. The best of the best of these Soldiers wear a badge that identifies them as the cream of the Army's medical crop - the Expert Field Medical Badge. Only 18 of 250 candidates earned the badge at the Army’s largest EFMB testing session, which took place May 12 at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa. The low number might seem alarming, but it is a testament to the badge's demanding criteria....

As sheriff's detectives investigate last week's crash that destroyed a $1-million Ferrari, they are now looking into an obscure nonprofit organization that provides disabled people with transit in the San Gabriel Valley. The car's owner, a former video game executive from Sweden, told Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies at the scene of the Feb. 21 accident in Malibu that he was deputy commissioner of the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority's police anti-terrorism unit, detectives said Thursday. A few minutes after the crash, two unidentified men arrived at the scene, flashing badges and saying they were from "homeland security," according to...

On paper, Gary Nalbandian would appear to be an influential figure in Southern California law enforcement. He has served as director of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Homeland Security Support Unit, the Riverside County Sheriff's Executive Council and the Bureau of Justice for the San Bernardino County district attorney's office. But Nalbandian is not a professional cop. The only paid law enforcement position he has held is as a volunteer reserve deputy with the Los Angeles County sheriff — salary, $1 a year. His real job is running a tire store in Glendora. He is, however, a major political fundraiser...

In the nine months since the San Antonio city council approved a controversial new sexually oriented business law and in the three months since a compromise version of the law was approved by a federal judge, exactly one stripper has applied for the permit required under the law, 1200 WOAI news reported today. One of the most controversial provisions of the law is one that requires all stripper to obtain a permit from the city and wear a badge 'somewhere on their person,' usually on a strap around their ankles or on the tiny 't-back' thong worn by most topless...

MONTREAL - Federal Transport Minister Jean Lapierre says he wants a report explaining how security uniforms and badges disappeared from airports across the country. More than 1,000 uniforms and parts of uniforms were lost or stolen, and nearly 100 security badges went missing over a nine-month period, CBC News reported after uncovering documents from the federal agency responsible for making air travel safe. "I want a report by Monday morning on all the details of all those elements," Lapierre said when asked for his reaction on Saturday. Lapierre also gave assurances that all airports in Canada are "now double checking...

The NYRA has a sponsored protest at the Ithaca Police Department tomorrow. Ithaca as you well know is the most liberal city in the US. The protest will be in response to the Chief (only elected because the more qualified opposition ran against the mayor for the position) removing the US Flag from the uniform. Please come and join, also notify the Media!!!

Just mentioned on channel 4 in DC - 50 missing Police badges and patches for the Pentagon security police. Police are searching ...

<p>Hundreds of badges, uniforms, identification cards and decals have been stolen from police agencies in five states, prompting the Department of Homeland Security to warn law enforcement authorities to guard against the theft of equipment that may be used by terrorists.</p>

Troops bear 'Moor Killer' badges Giles Tremlett in Madrid Friday July 25, 2003 The Guardian (UK)A row broke out in Spain yesterday after the country sent its first troops to patrol Iraq wearing on their shoulders the Cross of St James of Compostela - popularly known in Spain as "the Moor Killer". Patches bearing the cross, the symbol of a saint who allegedly guided the medieval Christian re conquista of Spain from the Muslims, are to be worn by a 2,000-strong Spanish brigade in central Iraq, who will patrol the sacred Shia city of Najaf. While newspapers and radio stations...

Alternative police badge for Muslims The Metropolitan Police Force is to drop the crown and cross from its insignia for non-Christian officers because of objections from a Muslim recruit. A Muslim traffic warden resigned because he complained he was unable to wear the symbol from any other faith. The Sunday Times reports that the force has come under pressure from a threatened employment tribunal resulting from the case. Currently all officers in Britain's 51 police areas wear the badge which incorporates the St Edward's crown, topped with a Christian cross. Choice Now the Met is proposing to develop an alternative...

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