1.   A government-run press centre in the tense Presevo valley area bordering Kosovo claimed special police had thwarted the abduction attempt.

2.   Special police units were ordered in from outside the city to deal with the gangs.

3.   Although all of the dead have been gang members, the threat posed to the general public has spurred creation of a special police task force.

4.   At the same time, republicans complain British leaders have failed to deliver on promises to de-militarize the province and reform its special police.

5.   Bacon said one problem was that Serbian troops and special police are widely dispersed through the area and operating in small groups.

6.   Bosnian Serb special police are considered to be under the command of Karadzic, who has been indicted by the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague.

7.   A half-hour after the shooting began, a heavily armed special police brigade arrived and finished off the surviving assailants.

8.   A special police unit created a database to catalog incoming calls.

9.   A special police unit is already probing another incident, where police allegedly unleashed pit bulls on blacks scavenging in a waste dump.

10.   Bridges were struck to limit the ability of the Yugoslav army and the special police to resupply their forces.