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Largest police force in the world.


Nigeria: 371, 800






The only African nation in the top 10 list, Nigeria’s 371, 800 police officers provide the citizens with a policing ratio of 205 officers per 100,000.


Nigeria is a huge country, with a population of over 174 million people (the seventh largest country by population)









There are about 2 million police in China, largest police force in the world.
Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Bigger moustache, higher salary


Police officers in Madhya Pradesh are given a slight pay upgrade for having a moustache.

Their bosses believe that its lets them command more respect.

The average salary for a police officer in Canada is over $100,000 a year.

In US, Police have a national average of 11 minutes to respond to a call.

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Police robot in Beijing

In 2010, heavily-armed SWAT teams raided nine barbershops in Orlando, Florida and arrested 34 people for barbering without a license

The Dubai police fleet includes a Lamborghini, Ferrari and Bentley.


This is to allow them to catch speeders who can outrun other cars.

Japan

Arresting and brutalising a lot of people does not make you the best police force, having the least amount of crime makes you the best.




That's why Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, And Dutch police are rated the best in the world.

Every police officer should have an ID number; this is so each officer is responsible for their actions.

In 1998, a woman disappeared while awaiting trial after she had drunkenly killed a woman in a fatal car crash.


In 2013, she was arrested in Manitoba, Canada after bragging in a bar about having gotten away with the crime.

The Nigeria Police Force was rated the worse police organisation in the a world by the Internal Security and Police Index International.

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

In 2007, Iranian intelligence operatives arrested 14 squirrels, claiming the rodents were serving as spies for Western powers

Male victims of domestic violence who called the police for help were more likely to be arrested themselves, than have their female partner arrested

In 1993, Tupac Shakur shot two off-duty police officers who were assaulting a young man.


Charges against Shakur were dropped because the officers were intoxicated and in possession of stolen guns.

In 2015, police in Belfast, Northern Ireland used music from ice cream van to calm angry teen rioters.

The Honolulu Police Departments police cruisers are required to have their blue steady lights on when they are on duty so people are aware where police officers are.

Some Canadian police departments give out ‘positive tickets’ to thank people for doing something good.

Finnish police have shot only 4 people to death in 25 years.

The town of Estelline in Texas ranks as one of the worst speed trap cities in the US. With a population of 168 people, its only police officer writes an average of 23 tickets a day bringing in more than $300,000 of ticket revenue a year

Until recently, The Honolulu Police Department were able to legally have sex with prostitutes while being undercover.

In 2008, Lamborghini gave the Italian state police the world’s fastest police car, a Gallardo LP560-4, which was equipped with a video surveillance camera, gun racks, GPS, organ transplant cooler(in the luggage compartment) and defibrillator.

In 1990, a police department in Michigan staged a fake wedding with undercover cops acting as thebride and groom and invited local drug dealers to attend. At the reception, they busted them all at once.

There’s a teddy bear in every Dutch police car, in case something troubling happens to a child.

After capturing Robert Black, a Scottish serial killer of children in 1963, the arresting police officer found his own daughter tied and gagged in the back of the killer’s van.

US police detectives have worn suits for more than 100 years.

Dressing formally is “psychological armor”; it “establishes a barrier between them and the messiness” of police work according to psychologists

Some police departments in the U.S. are starting to create Internet Purchase Exchange Locations so that Craigslist or similar transactions can be conducted in an area with video surveillance and police presence and keep participating parties safe

Japanese police fire paint-balls at fleeing vehicles so that other police vehicles can see them and identify them at a later date if they get away.


The paint is Bright orange and difficult to remove.

It takes three years of higher education to become a police officer in Norway.

The training takes place at a university college and each graduate gets a bachelor’s degree in “Police Studies”.

In 2004, the Republic of Georgia fired 30,000 police officers (almost the entire traffic police force) due to corruption and built glass police stations to encourage an image of transparency.

Since then crime in Georgia has dropped and the public confidence in the police has risen drastically.

They are to serve and protect.

Police officers enforce laws, fight crime, solve crime and keep peace in the community.


They must be in top physical and mental shape to withstand the stresses of their career.

They need to take charge in tough situations and think independently under pressure.

They also need the communication skills to deal with a wide range of people in difficult circumstances






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