One of the community leaders in charge of an operation to rescue the illegal miners at a disused mine in Stilfontein, North West, says they would communicate with the zama zamas underground urging them to move away from the tunnel as mining experts prepare a cage to rescue them.

Community leader Thembile Botman says mining experts were to start preparing from Tuesday and they were told it would take five to six days for them to build a cage that would assist in bringing them to the surface.

The illegal miners in Stilfontein who do not want to resurface are not trapped, they just fear being arrested, according to the deputy police commissioner responsible for policing, Lt-Gen Tebello Mosikili

The FOX 8 I-Team has confirmed US Marshals tracking a fugitive led to a police incident that closed I-77.

Federal police officers carried out five arrest warrants on Tuesday, the police said without providing any names, as well as three search and seizure warrants and other 15 precautionary measures. These included banning suspects from contacting others and forbidding them from leaving the country.

Application brought by the Society for the Protection of Our Constitution says they are trying to prevent another Marikana massacre

Brazilian police have arrested five military personnel over an alleged coup attempt which included killing Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his vice-president weeks before they took office.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says she is 'shocked' how little crime prevention work was being done at the Home Office as she lashed out at ageing technology holding forces back

Brazilian police arrest officers involved in coup plot to overthrow government and kill President Lula, leading to legal repercussions.

A 43-year-old father was shot and killed in his home by a Las Vegas police office last week, authorities said.

Yvette Cooper warned victims no longer believed police would turn up amid dwindling numbers of officers on the streets.

A Conservative shadow minister has said that police should not pursue non-crime hate incidents unless there is a "real risk of imminent criminality".

Stephen Parkinson, the director of public prosecutions, said there was 'surprise at the level' of NCHIs recorded within police forces as demands to overhaul how they are handled grew.

A Westminster toddler and her father are recovering at home after police said a woman tried to stab the young girl in a random attack over the weekend.

It will make a mockery of the justice system if police were to allow the bulk supply of food and ARVs to the illegal miners trapped in a Stilfontein mine in the North West, according to deputy police commissioner responsible for policing, Lt-Gen Tebello Mosikili

The Samajwadi Party on Wednesday accused police personnel of deterring some people from casting votes in Uttar Pradesh where bypolls are underway, while the Bharatiya Janata Party alleged that the faces of some burqa-clad women voters are not matching with their IDs.

An average voter turnout of 20 per cent was recorded in the first four hours of voting in the bypolls to 15 assembly seats spread across Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala and Uttarakhand on Wednesday amid an incident of stone pelting in a village in UP's Meerapur and allegations of police personnel deterring voters from casting their ballot.