FBI raids researcher who discovered private patient data on public server (2016)

Re:FBI raids researcher who discovered private patient data ... by jacquesm on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @04:10AM (#28997676)

Police in Europe is quite different from country to country, between the French, German, Spanish and say Dutch police the difference is huge. But nothing that I'm familiar with comes close to describing the police force that you apparently have as a model for the EU. Even the former SovBloc states, where the police traditionally have more problems than in the Western part of the EU in terms of corruption and having to deal with overt violence are not covered by your description. I've lived on the US border for quite a few years and even the difference between the Canadian police and the US police was night and day.

Would you mind explaining which country in the EU you believe has this model that you describe?

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Re:FBI raids researcher who discovered private patient data ... by brigandish on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @08:00AM (#28999275)

Spain[1]:

> The Guardia Civil (Civil Guard) is a gendarmerie force and therefore, has a military status

> The Policía Nacional or Cuerpo Nacional de Policía (the National Police Corps, or CNP) has a civilian status

Italy[2]:

> The two main police forces in the country are the Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie, and the Polizia di Stato, the civil national police.

France[3]:

> There are two national police forces called "Police nationale" and "Gendarmerie nationale".

Need I go on? There are more, as the other comments show.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Spain

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Italy

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_France

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