An Indian policeman walks past charred train carriage in Ludhiana, in
the northern Indian state of Punjab, May 15, 2003. Fire killed 38
people in a packed passenger train in northern India on Thursday,
catching many people in their sleep, officials and rescue workers said.
REUTERS/Ajay Verma

JSG/FA 

A policeman arranges floral tributes outside Windsor Castle following the death of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother March 31, 2002. [The Queen Mother died in her sleep on Saturday afternoon at the age of 101, with her daughter Queen Elizabeth II at her bedside, following a period of declining health.] 

A policeman examines floral tributes outside Clarence House following
the death of Britain's Queen Mother March 31, 2002. The Queen Mother
died in her sleep on Saturday afternoon at the age of 101, with her
daughter Queen Elizabeth II at her bedside, following a period of
declining health. REUTERS/Chris Helgren

CH/NMB 

A policeman arranges floral tributes outside Windsor Castle following
the death of Britain's Queen Mother March 31, 2002. The Queen Mother
died in her sleep on Saturday afternoon at the age of 101, with her
daughter Queen Elizabeth II at her bedside, following a period of
declining health. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty

KD/NMB 

A Russian medic examines a juvenile delinquent (R) as a policeman looks
on at a children's detention centre in Moscow, January 31, 2002. The
boy is one of thousands of children living on the frozen streets of
Moscow, sleeping in pipes, commuter trains or parked buses, left to
fend for themselves after post-Soviet social and economic
disintegration pushed many families to the brink of distitution.
REUTERS/William Webster

AS/CLH/ 

An Israeli soldier sleeps on his tank at the Erez checkpoint to the Gaza Strip December 15, 2001. [Israeli armour carrying troops hunting for militants has rumbled deep into Palestinian territory and tanks firing heavy machineguns have killed one policeman and wounded four others as they occupy swathes of the Gaza Strip.] 

An Israeli soldier sleeps on his tank at the Erez checkpoint to the
Gaza Strip December 15, 2001. Israeli armour carrying troops hunting
for militants has rumbled deep into Palestinian territory and tanks
firing heavy machineguns have killed one policeman and wounded four
others as they occupy swathes of the Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Reinhard
Krause

RKR 

An Italian policeman talks to a resident at a security barrier in
Genoa's old town, July 18, 2001 as the city was sealed off to protect a
weekend Group of Eight summit against an onslaught by
anti-globalisation demonstrators. With concrete barricades and steel
mesh fences, the police closed off a key-shaped 'red zone' including
the 13th century Ducal Palace where the G8 leaders will meet and the
old port where most of them will sleep on board a luxury ocean liner.

AKW 

Policeman sleeps in a bus prior to leaving Belgrade October 7, 2000. Yugoslavia headed for more momentous change on Saturday with the swearing-in of president-elect Vojislav Kostunica to replace Slobodan Milosevic two days after a popular revolt.

PEK/ 

Norismah Musbani, wife of Malaysian policeman Abdul Jawa Salawat, who was kidnapped with 20 other people by pirates on Sunday, sits blankly at the floor of her wooden home while her four-year-old son Hishamuddin Jawa sleeps in Semporna April 27. Abdul Jawa became the first Malaysian policeman to be abducted in the line of duty when pirates armed with machine guns and a bazooka struck at the tourist island of Sipadan off the east Malaysian state of Sabah at the weekend.

ZH/DL 

A Palestinian woman holds her sleeping infant as she is questioned by an Israeli Border Policeman who checks her Israeli identity papers at a roadblock leading from Jerusalem to Bethlehem September 7. Israel imposed a closure following the triple suicide bombings in Jerusalem on September 4 and West Bank identity holders are not allowed to enter Bethlehem or Israel. This woman and her child were allowed to pass the roadblock.

MIDEAST 

Filipino seamstress Gina Espina is identified by a policeman as the 21-year-old woman who cut off her husband's penis while he was sleeping in a Manila motel July 30