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Nerdy Policemen? Is That Like Copper Wire?

This is a modern equivalent of crime and punishment. Police in India are desperately seeking geeks to help them fight the rise in cyber crime. Officers in Chandigarh, in the Punjab region, plan to recruit a team of computer-savvy nerds. A senior Punjab officer told the Times of India: "Geeks will be the masters and act as the real super cops in the virtual world. Once hired, the police geeks will also be used to train cops who currently can't tell a laptop from a PC.

FOOTNOTE: That's rank - and file!

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German Mechanic Gets The Boot

Pointing out stories you may have missed: German police staged a major operation to find a kidnapped child after a woman spotted a "young boy" being locked into a car boot. The panicked woman alerted authorities as the car drove off, and police set up road blocks and dispatched patrol cars to intercept the vehicle. But when the car was finally sighted and stopped, police found the "boy" was actually dwarf car mechanic Klaus "Shorty" Mueller, 27. He had climbed in the boot and asked to be driven around so he could see where a strange rattling noise had been coming from.

News source: iol.co.za.