Example sentences of "of a police [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had last gone through the pointless business in the visitors ' room of a police station . |
| 2 | within 48 hours thereafter notice was given to the officer in charge of a police station . |
| 3 | A shot of a police station was used to accompany a voice-over commentary that " some CID men take bribes " ; for two and a half seconds , the officer could be identified in the film as he walked down the station steps . |
| 4 | Thousands of pounds worth of antiques are filling the cells of a police station while officers try to find out whether they were stolen . |
| 5 | A Vietnamese was said to have attacked a taxi driver in a black market-related dispute , although other reports spoke of a police operation against black-marketeers . |
| 6 | The arrests of 26 people in Palermo , Milan and Modena on March 18 came as part of a police operation to break up what was alleged to be a network operated by the Sicilian Mafia . |
| 7 | They claimed that the ruling nullified the government 's argument that it had no liability for the death of the Palestinian because it was an act of war , and that it effectively restored the government 's response to the intifada to the status of a police operation . |
| 8 | You know , I , I have been put in that situation before , when I 've actually seen , you know , and most reporters are working secondhand , but , you know , I have been in the position where I 've actually seen , part of a police operation take place , mainly because I 'd got stopped coming out on the Huntingdon Road after the , the Mill Road Post Office was , was knocked over a year or so ago . |
| 9 | Meadowell has even discovered a new martyr in the shape of one Willy Hunter , a local hard nut awaiting trial for murder , and allegedly the victim of a police frame-up . |
| 10 | A man whose name was linked to the killer of a police informer was found murdered at his home in Chapel Street , Stroud , Glos , early yesterday . |
| 11 | Danny Morrison , 38 , the former publicity director of Sinn Féin , was sentenced in Belfast on May 9 to eight years in prison for his part in the false imprisonment of a police informer , but was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Alexander " Sandy " Lynch , who had been held and interrogated by the IRA 's security department for two days in January 1990 ; seven others were given prison sentences of up to 12 years for false imprisonment in connection with this and other cases . |
| 12 | Two men have gone on trial for the murder of a police informer , whose body was found weighted down in a lake three years ago . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The face of a police chief who was having a ‘ tough one ’ . |
| 15 | On arrival in Turkey , the three became aware of a police campaign to stamp down on counterfeiters . |
| 16 | Another binary is created here , for we became separated in our communitas of spontaneity from the rigid belief systems and certainties of a police structure rooted in language , law , and custom . |
| 17 | She picked up the bag , checked inside to see that everything was still there , and was about to confiscate the switchblade when she heard the sound of a police siren in the distance . |
| 18 | Hillsborough was the result of a police decision to open an exit gate to allow mass entry onto an already crowded terrace . |
| 19 | The bishops ' caution came after 2,500 Basques marched through San Sebastian on Saturday protesting against ETA 's killing of a police officer , Jose Angel Alvarez , father of six . |
| 20 | PC Timms strolled into the inn , confronted the man at the bar and accused him of being Robert James , wanted for the murder of a police officer at Harwell . |
| 21 | Failure to obey any instructions he or she might issue in this context may amount to the statutory offence of obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his duty , for which the sentence can be either imprisonment or a substantial fine . |
| 22 | He was arrested and , although there was no blockage of the highway , disorder , or violence , he was later charged with obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his duty . |
| 23 | The overwhelming majority of Scottish cases related to one of four offences : conduct likely or intended to cause a breach of the peace , obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his or her duty , criminal damage or breach of bail conditions ( Wallington , 1985 : 150 ) . |
| 24 | The affair thus highlights the unreality of the common-law rule which continues to concentrate on the independent judgment of a police officer who is in fact simply obeying instructions which are issued as part of a general policy not necessarily susceptible of being influenced by the specific facts of particular cases . |
| 25 | Not long ago we reported a case where a child died of fright caused by the approach of a Police officer in Uniform . |
| 26 | Freddie the Nark 's impersonation of a police officer had sounded convincing to him , until he said that Peggie had fallen at her home . |
| 27 | It is sometimes a question whether a particular confession is the unaided work of an accused or is a fabrication of a police officer . |
| 28 | A failure on the part — ( a ) of a police officer to comply with any provision of such a code ; or ( b ) of any person other than a police officer who is charged with the duty of investigating offences or charging offenders to have regard to any relevant provision of such a code in the discharge of that duty , shall not of itself render him liable to any criminal or civil proceedings . |
| 29 | This was the murder of a police officer , one of their own , no one would step aside . |
| 30 | In the past eight years , some 5,400 police officers have been freed for operational policing duties by civilianising posts which do not require the powers or skills of a police officer , representing an efficiency gain of around £100 million per year . |