Example sentences of "from a police [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It might not induce a particular favour from a police constable but then , as now , it ensured a level of co-operation .
2 No one in the shop seems surprised at two men slipping away from a police raid .
3 Describes prisoners about to be transported to prison from a police station , in particular two younger sisters , the elder hardened to it all but the younger one bitterly distressed .
4 In scarlet and black they had written " Support the Women of Greenham Common " on the dull grey-green paint of a bridge two hundred yards from a police station .
5 When a person is arrested away from a police station , section 30 says that he should be taken to a police station as soon as practicable unless the investigation requires his presence elsewhere .
6 Section 32 regulates searches where an arrest is made away from a police station .
7 A woman 's been assaulted in her car just yards away from a police station .
8 If they 're gon na be driving from village to village , they might as well work from a police station and drive from village to village in a transit van or a police vehicle .
9 Following disturbances in Southall , London , in April 1979 , when Asian youths assembled to protest against a National Front political rally during the general election , and when a New Zealand demonstrator was killed , some alleged by a blow from a police officer , the Home Secretary set in motion a review of the law .
10 But it includes much more … from personal hygiene to library studies … from a Police course to knowing what it 's like being deaf .
11 It is headed by Suresh Grover , who , like many associated with the organisation , has been active in radical Asian politics since the mid-1970s and the bitter campaign which followed the death of Blair Peach from a police truncheon blow in 1979 .
12 The plaintiff there was claiming damages for her son 's death brought about , she alleged , by a blow from a police truncheon .
13 A POLICE hotline set up to take calls about a rave party in Stafford got two complaints — about the noise from a police helicopter .
14 Superintendent Cyril Donnan , a member of the group , said : ‘ From a police point of view , this is good news .
15 The demonstrators stopped their march , a few metres away from a police line deployed in the temple 's front square .
16 ONE of the guns found in West Belfast recently had been stolen from a police inspector in 1988 .
17 The boy — dubbed Houdini — had escaped from a police cell last week .
18 Coming from a police family and married to a police officer , her inculcated beliefs were such that the alternative concepts which the sociology of law posed were beyond acceptability .
19 During preliminary police investigations into Norman Scott 's allegations that he had been the victim of a conspiracy to murder in order to protect a former lover , Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe MP , the " Daily Telegraph " obtained a scoop from a police source .
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