Example sentences of "of the [noun] [prep] [art] police " in BNC.

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1 We have in the Home Office a copy of the very helpful report by the chief constable of Northumbria and we have also been greatly assisted by the work of the members of the Police Federation , who have co-operated in the analysis of the serious problem of offending on bail .
2 She had denied anything of the kind to the police but it was real enough .
3 All the same , when Wycliffe arrived , there were three vehicles parked on the opposite side of the square from the police station ; two were blue vans carrying the badge of the area police force , while the third belonged to the telephone engineers .
4 In 1977 , the Joint Central Committee was asked to examine the effects of the Act on the Police Service in Scotland and to make recommendations regarding the employment of female officers .
5 For many years the official view of the position of the police in liberal democracies like Britain was that it acted merely as an administrative agent to enforce the law .
6 The headman was then supposed to send a copy of the receipt to the police magistrate .
7 Commander Briggs had counselled Blanche to calm down and accept more of the things in the police she could not change .
8 The phone rang and he moved to answer it , but the flex was pulled out of the wall by the police before he could speak .
9 I welcome very much the opportunity to raise on the Adjournment the question of the working of the police national computer mark 2 and the need for effective safeguards , and I am delighted that this debate is starting at a relatively civilised hour .
10 However , except in some cases of serious or organised crime , prosecutors leave the interrogation of the suspect to the police .
11 The general drift of Punch 's enthusiasm , in fact , was that gentlemen should take steps to arm themselves because of the uselessness of the police force .
12 The result of all this was that the Government 's claims about the march and its defence of the actions of the police carried very little conviction outside the ranks of its own supporters .
13 Certain groups of individuals — ethnic minorities , homosexuals , young people — may also be suspicious of the attitudes of the police towards them .
14 They were then smuggled out of the building in a police decoy operation , being driven away in unmarked cars with blankets over their heads .
15 The outcome is a power which transforms the nature of the relationship between the police and the public .
16 of the cost of the police service comes from the Exchequer , the taxpayer , and only 10 per cent .
17 Casting a despairing glance around at the stark walls of the interview-room in the police station , she took a deep unsteady breath .
18 This view of the use of the police as agents of government economic policy was shared , frequently with concern , by much of the public …
19 His conclusion is that ‘ In part , therefore , my covert research is justified by my assessment of the power of the police within British society and the secretive character of the force … .
20 Mr John Bates for the prosecution [ when six football supporters were charged ] said : ‘ While a football match years ago used to be regarded as one of the perks of the job by the police , it is now the reverse .
21 The Divisional Court said that this did not matter and was not caught by section 78 , which the judges stressed was concerned with no more than the narrow question of the effect of the police practice on the fairness of the proceedings in court .
22 Evaluation of the effect of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 on police interrogation
23 In January 1988 Leeds crown court excluded statements by the accused with the result that he was acquitted of the murder of a police sergeant and the attempted murder of a constable .
24 A witness at the trial of two men accused of the murder of a police informer has claimed that one defendent drove the victim to a meeting with the other , who them killed him .
25 92 year old , Mary Tanshill spent the day giving details of the theft to the police .
26 ‘ Keep them out of the hands of the police , that 's the thing .
27 ‘ The question is , should we , for the good of the diocese , for the good indeed of the Church , keep knowledge of that problem out of the hands of the police or , at least , the press ? ’
28 And just to make sure that everything was fair and above-board , the computer , like the facilities for tapping phones , would be located at the law courts , safely out of the hands of the police .
29 Now one of the jobs of the police force , and especially the CID , is to try to establish a pattern in crime , if this is possible , and in this instance both Sergeant Lewis and myself found it difficult not to believe there was some link between the two events .
30 YOU REPORT ( November 7 ) that the president of the Police Federation is worried lest the use of the police in the ambulance dispute would jeopardise the idea of the impartiality of the police in the eyes of the public .
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