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Harvard Grad Chooses $25,000-Salary Job as N.Y. Cop BY CHRISTOPHER FAHERTY - Special to the Sun June 28, 2007 URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/57456 Cheryl Walter is a graduate of Harvard University and has a master's degree in forensic psychology, but yesterday, as she addressed the city's newest class of police officers as their valedictorian, she realized a lifelong dream: becoming a police officer. "They always knew I was going to do law enforcement," Officer Walter said of her parents. "They were just surprised I didn't do the feds." With Officer Walter's pedigree — she earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Harvard...

PLANTATION, Fla., July 26 (UPI) -- A Plantation, Fla., Police Academy DUI instructor was charged with drunken driving after she was clocked doing 90 mph and found to be lacking any pants. The Plantation Police Internal Affairs report released this week says Officer Laurie Primeau had an open bottle of Southern Comfort in her car when she was arrested on Dec. 9. But her lawyer said the booze was merely a training device for cadets, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported.

Police are continuing to question five men and a woman about the murder of rookie woman police officer Sharon Beshenivsky , who was gunned down by armed raiders. Pc Sharon Beshenivsky: Police said the gunman had not hesitated to open fire on the unarmed officers Pc Beshenivsky, 38, who had three children and two stepchildren, was killed on her youngest daughter Lydia's fourth birthday as she arrived at the raid in a travel agent's shop in Bradford, West Yorkshire, on Friday. The former childminder had been a community police officer for two years before joining the full-time West Yorkshire force...

LIMA, Peru (AP) - The latest scandal swirling around President Alejandro Toledo involves an attractive 23-year-old policewoman who posed on the cover of Peru's leading news magazine in a black sleeveless sweater and tight red jeans, with her midriff exposed and 9 mm pistol drawn. For months, rumors that police Lt. Lady Bardales was romantically involved with Toledo were strictly fodder for Peru's tabloid press, which dubbed her Lady "Bi" - an allusion to Britain's Princess Diana. But then last month, Bardales' brother, a policeman in the northern coastal city of Chiclayo, allegedly beat up a television news reporter who...

(IsraelNN.com) Meirav Taliaz, the traffic policewoman injured in an assault yesterday is reported in light condition. Taliaz, who is pregnant, was kicked in the stomach by an angry female Arab motorist who was being issued a summons. The assailant and daughter, who were in the vehicle, were both taken into custody.

WASHINGTON, July 10 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – Many U.S. based Muslim and Arab organizations criticized a discriminatory court verdict depriving a mother from her child after she became a Muslim, just after the same organizations praised the decision of the Cook County police department in Illinois which allowed a Muslim deputy commissioner to wear hijab (veil) while on duty. A South Dakota court ruled that a child be taken from his mother because she converted to Islam. The parents of the woman filed a lawsuit against their daughter accusing her of “adopting abnormal conduct, including wearing a Muslim outfit...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) -- No one ordered Officer Moira Smith to respond to the World Trade Center on September 11. She had been taking witness statements at a Manhattan police station and rushed downtown voluntarily.</p> <p>Her name tag and shield were discovered near her remains at Ground Zero on Wednesday, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.</p>