Example sentences of "in a [adj] police " in BNC.
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| 1 | The common police services must be combined in a central police agency so that we can deal with serious and organised crime , not necessarily crime which immediately affects the lives of constituents but crime which can affect them through the stealing of their pension funds or the misappropriation of their assets and savings . |
| 2 | Then your detective should have much more of the qualities that make for success in a real police officer , and much less vulnerability to comic events . |
| 3 | The alarm was raised shortly afterwards by a milkman and officers in a passing police car who spotted the smoke and flames . |
| 4 | He was caught in a massive police hunt launched after the four fled through a hole in a fence around the jail playing field . |
| 5 | Both of the Deanses have been charged with fraud in a continuing police investigation into the affairs of the club . |
| 6 | A crackdown on speeding and aggressive driving will be the first step in a one-year-long police campaign to cut the number of deaths and accidents on motorways . |
| 7 | In order to facilitate a quick arrest under difficult circumstances — ‘ the crowd was jeering and becoming unpleasantly restive ’ — Robert Mark then confesses that he indulged in a little police brutality , by using his strictly non-regulation rubber truncheon to give the offender ‘ a hefty whack on the shin' which apparently broke his leg . |
| 8 | Such individuals may wait many weeks on remand in a prison hospital wing , sometimes even in a cell in a local police station , before they are assessed by the local service . |
| 9 | Behind , in a marked police car , Sergeant Dixon sat beside his driver , a moderately excited PC Watson . |
| 10 | Her imagination went wild ; she pictured Barney seated in a hard chair in a dingy police interview room while the detective probed and bullied and cajoled , plucking away at the outer layers of his mind , stripping it down to its sensitive core , implacable in his search for signs of weakness or guilt . |