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Police in Arctic Norway say helicopter now needed for border surveillance

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, January 16, 2023 at 08:53
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A former commander with the Kremlin-linked Wagner private military company fled across the border to Norway in dramatic circumstances last

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Police respond to rising burglaries in Swedish Lapland

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, December 28, 2021 at 10:34
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In north Lapland, people are most afraid of home burglaries so the police have set up an organization to react

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Mounties discuss committee findings on 7 sexual assault cases in Canada’s Northwest Territories

Avery Zingel, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at 09:43
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Reporting a sexual assault takes guts and few Northwest Territories victims ever come forward, making it all the more important

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Featured • Zone 2 General Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

Swedish Security Police: Increasing threat against Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 11:30
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The threat from foreign powers and violent extremism continues to increase, according to Sweden’s Security Police, Säpo. In its yearly

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* Featured * Canada Featured • Zone 3 General News RCI Society Society (Canada) 

To stop violence against Inuit women in Canada, ‘we need to heal generations,’ says survivor

CBC Radio
Posted: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 08:58
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A Labrador woman who lost both of her parents in a murder-suicide when she was a child says more must

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Top Nunavut cop gives more details into how man was killed by officer in Arctic Canada

Thomas Rohner, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 16:12
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In the face of mounting pressure for transparency and rising tensions in Kinngait, Nunavut, the territory’s top Mountie made the

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Canada Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canada’s Arctic province wants to stop relying on Ottawa police force to investigate police shootings

The Canadian Press
Posted: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 at 11:06 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 16:13
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The government of Nunavut is affirming its intention to create a civilian police oversight body after a recent review of a shooting

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RCI Society Society (Canada) 

No charges in police-related death in Arctic Canada, Ottawa police say

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 at 11:38
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After completing an investigation into the RCMP-related death of a man in Kinngait, Nunavut, the Ottawa Police Service says the officer

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Denmark/Greenland General RCI Society Society (Denmark/Greenland) 

Greenland, Denmark ministers receive 16 recommendations for improving child welfare in Arctic

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, August 21, 2020 at 11:47
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The social affairs ministers of Greenland and Denmark have received recommendations for improving child welfare in the Arctic and pledged

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Geopolitics Geopolitics (Norway) Norway Politics 

Norwegian police arrests citizen suspected of selling state secrets to Russia

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 09:44
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The arrest happened at a restaurant in Oslo. « We have detained a man his 50s, suspected of sharing information

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Police in Northwestern Canada’s border territory can now ticket people who violate travel restrictions

CBC News
Posted: Friday, August 14, 2020 at 11:59
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Yukon RCMP can now ticket visitors who violate the territory’s coronavirus-related travel restrictions. In a news release on Thursday, police say

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Police-related death rate in Northern Quebec 30 times higher than Ontario’s

Thomas Rohner, CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 10, 2020 at 15:53 — Last Updated: Monday, August 10, 2020 at 16:11
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Nunavik has seen more police-related deaths in the last two decades than any of Canada’s three territories, despite having a

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Former officers from Canadian police reflect on how to fix policing in the North

John Last, CBC North
Posted: Monday, July 20, 2020 at 11:29
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Since the RCMP’s earliest days, it has relied on Indigenous people for survival. In the North, Canada’s project of extending

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Arctic Canada : Lawyer wants man in violent Kinngait arrest video to join his class action

Katie Toth, CBC News
Posted: Friday, June 12, 2020 at 10:56
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A lawyer is trying to get in touch with the Kinngait man who, earlier this month, was captured on video

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Violence by Canadian federal police against Inuit: few are stopping systemic racism, Indigenous leaders say

Thomas Rohner, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at 14:10
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To address the systemic racism against Indigenous people shown by police forces such as the RCMP, Canadian leaders need to look

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