Example sentences of "[prep] [art] police [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Clarke unknowingly stole the thunder of Douglas Hurd , the Home Secretary , who had been intending to make a veiled public appeal for more cash for the police services in the law and order debate . |
| 2 | One of the mothers said she felt quite sorry for the police officers involved and was tempted to offer them warm drinks to keep out the cold ! |
| 3 | Well actually this is a matter for the police authorities and despite the fact that the Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan had said this is a centralising measure and er and a number of other Noble Lords have , have said er s similar things , what my Right Honourable Friend is trying to do is to give down to local authorities more power , more responsibility and not to keep that r responsibility to himself . |
| 4 | Fortunately for the police complaints department , skins seem to regard this as part of the normal way of life , in the same way they might get a good hiding from their old man to make them toe the line at home . |
| 5 | Stephen Richards for the Police Complaints Authority . |
| 6 | It was designed as a more effective replacement for the Police Complaints Board ( PCB ) which the public appeared to have lost faith in due to the fact that few complaints were ever substantiated , and that all investigations were carried out by the police themselves . |
| 7 | Well as I understand it the er these lawyers for the defendants took the view that as all the statements had been prepared for the police complaints authority investigation , public immunity er yes er public interest immunity attached to them . |
| 8 | It is not uncommon for the police magazines to feature this antipathy to the academic , and especially the social science researcher : |
| 9 | This was surprising in view of the fact that , under this Act , it is the local authorities who are empowered to provide and maintain such buildings , vehicles , apparatus , and equipment as may be required for the police purposes of their area . |
| 10 | The solicitor should be present during the police interviews , which are tape recorded . |
| 11 | Irish diplomats mounted a full-scale search in Argentina , and eventually found that the girl was among those rescued from The Family during the police raids . |
| 12 | Some readers may therefore have identified them as the police officers referred to in our article of May 13 , 1986 . |
| 13 | He was virtually the only cabinet member who really had Franco 's ear and , until October 1940 , had been responsible , as Minister of the Interior , for such nationwide networks of social and political control as the police forces , the press , censorship , propaganda , cinema and radio . |
| 14 | Although external organs such as the police networks were used to enforce control , much of it was exercised through existing social institutions , for example , the family and the company , and through official organizations such as the reservists , youth leagues and women 's groups , of which membership , where appropriate , eventually became compulsory . |
| 15 | He described the March 3 attack as an " aberration " , although transcripts of radio conversations between the police officers involved and their control included references to other violent incidents and contained a number of derogatory racial remarks . |
| 16 | His arguments for such a conclusion are , first , the narrow one that the appellant 's complaint of 15 July 1989 was about the police officers ' fabricating the interview notes — whereas the inquiry was principally into the possibility of their having , following his complaint , removed them from Warwick Crown Court . |
| 17 | ‘ There will have to be a very full investigation through the Police Complaints Authority . ’ |
| 18 | But before the meeting could commence a group of young demonstrators attempted to break through the police lines to get at the counter-demonstrators , who were jeering , shouting slogans and singing party songs . |
| 19 | Pickets broke through the police lines and flung themselves into the road in an attempt to stop the vehicles . |
| 20 | The example of the police radios shows the relative permanence of being allocated a piece of spectrum — radios and other broadcasting equipment , whether for entertainment or communication , are designed to sort out what it wants to pick up from the rest of the signal . |
| 21 | There was a brief attempt at a sit-down in front of the police lines , and a ragged snatch of ‘ We shall overcome ’ was sung . |
| 22 | The annals of the police courts , and headlines in the newspapers , tell a rather different story . |
| 23 | pointed out ) an effective police force requires a margin of reserve strength in order to deal with emergencies , and to employ that margin of reserve , when not otherwise required , on special police service for payment is to the advantage both of the persons utilising their services and of the public who are thereby relieved from some part of the police charges . |
| 24 | He was jailed for three months suspended for two years on each of the Customs offences and fined £100 on each of the police charges . |
| 25 | For all its underground samizdat quality , this document is designed to be discovered in order to draw the attention of the police authorities to the strength of rank-and-file feeling . |
| 26 | If in the judgment of the police authorities , formed reasonably and in good faith , the garrison was necessary for the protection of life and property , then they were not entitled to make a charge for it , for that would be to exact a payment for the performance of a duty which they clearly owed to the appellants and their servants ; but if they thought the garrison a superfluity and only acceded to Mr. James 's request with a view to meeting his wishes , then in my opinion they were entitled to treat the garrison duty as special duty and to charge for it … … . |
| 27 | My Lords , any discussion of this group of amendments must surely be conducted against the background of the vital Amendment thirty-one concerning the Chairman of the police authorities . |
| 28 | I simply say that on the debates we 've had on the Policing Bill , I 've learnt what the functions of your Noble House is all about and the speech that 's just been made from across the Chamber from me , sums up entirely my views on the matter , and I say to your Lordships House that on the basis of experience as Northern Ireland Secretary when one is a Home Secretary for a province and there 's a number of people in this House who 've had a job to do including the Noble Lord , The Noble Viscount Whitelaw who set the tone of the way we all proceeded , I accept that , the one of the things we had to do there was bring democracy back to policing and the primary force of policing is taking a long time to do and that here as Home Secretary , everything I learned there was , stop the growing centralisation and the weakening of the police authorities and police force and this Bill does exactly that But now one of the questions I 've asked myself and it 's the only point because all the points have been made that I really want to ask the Government is what are these appointees for ? |
| 29 | As an experienced community policeman in the area said , the attitude of the police changes because policemen and women can see that the community ‘ is not all yobbos ’ ( FN 15/5/87 , p. 4 ) : |
| 30 | Of a sudden , one of the police helicopters shot overhead , startling me with its enormous clatter , as if the thing were a flying tree , streaking out of sight behind the crisp crest of the Jungfrau . |