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Statistics show the number of arrests being made by British police has collapsed — while forces focus increasingly on so-called “hate crime” and “malicious communications”.

Police recorded crimes for England and Wales surged to over five million over the last year, according to a new Office for National Statistics (ONS) bulletin. Britain’s official statistical institute reports a 13 per cent increase in crime in the

London’s Metropolitan Police Force has said it will give up on investigating many instances of “low-level” crime such as shoplifting and vandalism, saying it is “not practical” to fight them in a time of cutbacks.

British police forces arrested at least nine people a day for “offensive” comments on social media in 2016.

TEL AVIV – Five knife-wielding teens on the prowl for “scary clowns” were detained by police in the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon Sunday night as the nationwide trend continues to sweep the country.

NEW YORK – American Jewish groups have slammed Interpol for for granting ‘Palestine’ entry to the international police organization as a full member state.

NEW YORK – The U.S. will not honor Palestinian arrest warrants issued through Interpol, a senior official in Washington said following the international police organization’s vote to include ‘Palestine’ as a full member state.

TEL AVIV – Israel is working to prevent the Palestinian Authority’s latest campaign to become a full member state in international bodies, this time by blocking its lobby to join Interpol.

HELSINKI (AP) — A Norwegian court has sentenced a former police officer to 21 years in prison for severe corruption and being an accomplice in one of Norway’s biggest drug-smuggling cases.

JERUSALEM – Nine people were arrested in violent clashes that erupted in Jerusalem Sunday between police and several hundred ultra-Orthodox, anti-Zionist Israelis  protesting a recent Supreme Court ruling that rejected an amendment to a draft law, effectively ending that community’s exemption from IDF service.

California’s legislature approved “sanctuary state” protections for illegal aliens in a last-minute vote Saturday, limiting city and state police cooperation with federal immigration officials.

The Berkeley, California, city council gave police officers the go-ahead after a vote Tuesday evening to use pepper spray on violent protesters.

California Governor Jerry Brown has reached a deal with Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) that will allow a “sanctuary state” bill to pass once it is amended to allow cooperation with federal law enforcement outside of immigration.

Police in Florida are reporting that dozens have been arrested for looting stores and homes and breaking curfew after mass evacuations; the curfews were set to protect life and property.

Police officers in a small Pennsylvania town are evidently afraid of a certain homicidal clown.

A photo of a Connecticut police department giving its K9 officer an emotional farewell before he is put down is tugging at the heartstrings of many social media users.

Almost 200 Houston, Texas, police officers lost their homes in the devastating floodwaters of Tropical Storm Harvey.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Police in Finland released a third suspect Friday in a fatal stabbing attack allegedly carried out by a Moroccan asylum-seeker, a development that came hours after the Nordic country’s news agency said officers will be issued MP5 submachine guns in addition to their normal equipment.

The San Jose Police Department has launched an LGBT recruitment campaign, attempting to attract new officers at the Silicon Valley Pride Parade.

Berkeley police deliberately allowed masked “Antifa” anarchists to jump a barricade and attack a demonstration by a peaceful right-wing group on Sunday, leading to five assaults, including on Patriot Prayer group leader Joey Gibson.

Healthy, middle-aged men who speak fluent English will be less of a priority for London police when they are the victims of violent crime, one of Scotland Yard’s most senior officers has suggested.

TEL AVIV – Israel can learn from the Europe how to fight terrorism and not only the other way around, EU envoy to the Jewish state said on Tuesday, sparking a backlash from pro-Israel activists.

BARCELONA (AFP) – Barcelona will boost police patrols at tourist sites including the iconic Sagrada Familia church and major sports and cultural events in the wake of last week’s deadly vehicle attacks in Spain, officials said Wednesday.

President Donald Trump reacted on Twitter to the clash between Boston free speech protesters and counter-protesters on Saturday, praising local officials for handling the situation.

PARIS (AP) – Dutch police quickly arrested a man armed with a knife who briefly held a woman hostage Thursday at a radio station building in the Netherlands. The woman was shocked but otherwise unhurt in the early morning incident

A man climbed to the roof of a New York City school and stripped naked while spraying a garden hose at police, authorities say.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A fugitive Romanian businessman sentenced to seven years in prison for real estate fraud was detained in London on Monday, British and Romanian police said.

The owner of an exercise gym in Atlanta, Georgia, is standing firm on his policy of refusing to serve police officers, reports say.

BERLIN (AP) — A court has nixed the minimum height requirement for police recruits in Germany’s most populous state, arguing that it is unfair to men.

LONDON (AP) — A British ex-police officer has been given a year in jail for using a helicopter to film people having sex.

Cell phone video has emerged of an officer pointing a gun at a passenger for over nine minutes after pulling over the vehicle.

A burns surgeon who treats many acid attack victims coming out of East London has suggested that the proliferation of such crimes is now at epidemic levels.

TEL AVIV – Children dressed as Islamist militants at a summer camp run by the Gaza-based Hamas terror group reenacted the recent turmoil over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem by “storming” and “liberating” the holy site by “stabbing” Israeli “police officers,” new footage shows.

An LGBT Pride march in Calgary, Canada, has banned police officers from attending in uniform, citing “historical oppression” and “institutionalized racism.”

Pop superstar Chris Brown lashed out at Donald Trump on social media over the weekend in response to jokes the president made during his speech to federal, state, and local law enforcement about cracking down on the deadly MS-13 gang.

Molotov cocktails, fireworks, and bottles have been hurled at police during a ‘Black Lives Matter’ riot in East London following the death of an alleged drug dealer.