The move is aimed at reducing the high rate of crimes of passion among officers, the interior minister said at a televised ceremony taking place at a police college.

One sultry afternoon in the main city of the Italian island of Sicily, a Nigerian mother is intensely watching her two-year-old son play. They are in the courtyard of a housing block they share with other African families in a run-down corner of Palermo. The woman is content sitting on a worn plastic chair enjoying her son having fun in …