Viejos y descuidados son un peligro en la calle. No cumplen con la Verificación Técnica obligatoria. Además, uno de cada tres tiene más de 20 años de antigüedad. Según los expertos, hasta un 25% de los accidentes se produce por fallas técnicas.

Dos semanas después de asumir el cargo, la nueva secretaria de Gobierno de Bogotá anuncia su primera gran apuesta para combatir la inseguridad ciudadana. Consiste en la instalación de cámaras en unos 3.000 taxis de la ciudad, en un proyecto piloto que busca masificarse en el mediano plazo.

AT 50, Nigeria has never been short of blueprints and proposals aimed at uplifting the lives of her people, but there has always been problem with implementing such proposals. In many, if not most of the situations, such well intended blueprints have been turned into avenues of personal enrichment, while the masses for whom they were intended were always left in the lurch.

The Lagos State Police Command seems to be matching action with words, regarding warnings to kidnappers to stay away from Lagos, or have themselves to blame. This followed the smashing of three different notorious kidnap gangs in one week, with the rescue of their victims which included children , ladies and a man.

A division bench of Justice A M Khanwilkar and Justice P D Kode, while hearing a petition filed by Ashwini Rane, wife of slain Pune-based builder Nikhil Rane, last week had suggested that the Maharashtra police too should consider opening an account on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to interact with the public.