But in no other country are crime fighters quite so knowledgeable about citizens as in Britain.
Even the stalwart Capitol Hill crime fighters Sarbanes and Oxley would have a tough time confronting hot lead.
Increasingly, cities are enlisting private security forces and citizen watchdogs as crime fighters.
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Earlier this month, senior European crime fighters Europol detailed how match-fixing had reached the upper echelons of European football.
The 43-year-old, an expert in money laundering and firearms control, said cybercriminals should now be a central focus of international policing as they caused untold damage at little cost to themselves and crime fighters were struggling to keep up with them.
Lucky and Flo, the two danger-loving police dogs whose exploits as international crime fighters are well know to readers of this site, have just become the first non-humans to be awarded Malaysia's outstanding service award for their tireless work in trotting around and sitting down at the first whiff of plastic.
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Crime-fighters compete with rappers for celebrity: most people can name half a dozen lawyers, judges or police chiefs.
Policing reforms would reduce bureaucracy and return officers to the streets, Mrs May said, making them "crime-fighters not form-writers".
Police constables are not just crime-fighters, they are social psychologists - looking for ways to calm an anxious citizenry.
In Operation Delego the US authorities co-operated closely with EU crime-fighters, including the justice agency Eurojust and police agency Europol.
Digital crime-fighters plan to use the same techniques the researchers used to identify students at Carnegie Mellon University to identify English rioters.
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For more than a decade, activists and some governments have been pushing for international rules to try to keep illicit weapons out of the hands of terrorists, insurgent fighters and organized crime.
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