Example sentences of "a police " in BNC.

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1 In 1990 a police officer accused of distributing copies of a patriotic song to high-school students was sentenced to 13 years ' imprisonment by a military court .
2 The death of one 16-year-old under interrogation at a police station in January 1990 has yet to be properly investigated .
3 They say no , 'cause I 've got a police house .
4 For example , the Audit Commission ( an arm of the treasury ) spent some time in 1987/8 with myself and others in a police research department assessing an OSU ( Operational Support Unit ) administrative system which they claimed had ‘ revolutionized police decision making ’ and released manpower for patrol equal to £6.358 million .
5 Usually I was challenged as to why I was not reading law , which was always quoted as the ‘ proper ’ subject for a police officer .
6 Harry Templeton ( 1980 ) , a police officer in North Wales , suggested :
7 The Disciplinary Code in Schedule 1 to the Police ( Discipline ) Regulations 1985 contains an offence of ‘ improper disclosure of information ’ , which is committed where a member of a police force without proper authority communicates to any person , any information which he has in his possession as a member of a police force .
8 The Disciplinary Code in Schedule 1 to the Police ( Discipline ) Regulations 1985 contains an offence of ‘ improper disclosure of information ’ , which is committed where a member of a police force without proper authority communicates to any person , any information which he has in his possession as a member of a police force .
9 As it is , when I showed close colleagues my first working paper ( Young 1979a ) on experiences in a police bridewell ( see Chapters 2 and 3 ) , they were alarmed .
10 Again , as I recorded in a fieldnote , this assistant chief exhibited aspects of what I could only then describe as ‘ institutional paranoia ’ , when he went on to deride an unnamed social scientist who had been allowed research facilities inside a police force ( unspecified ) .
11 Improper disclosure of information , which offence is committed where a member of a police force ( a ) without proper authority communicates to any person , any information which he has in his possession as a member of a police force …
12 Improper disclosure of information , which offence is committed where a member of a police force ( a ) without proper authority communicates to any person , any information which he has in his possession as a member of a police force …
13 Not unnaturally a police world values uniformity , for as the language infers it embodies the essentials of a system obsessed with physical and ideological concepts of order and discipline .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Owners of ‘ dangerous ’ breeds are likely to have a three-month period — until the end of November — to obtain a police permit for their animals .
18 The perplexed driver took him to a police station — which then contacted Steve .
19 My husband and I bought Millie as a companion for Mac , my Standard Poodle , and for my peace of mind , as my husband is a police officer who frequently works nights .
20 In Harlow , Essex , police arrested at least 45 people when they closed down an acid house party attended by 3,000 to 4,000 people at a disused warehouse at 6am yesterday , a police spokesman said .
21 At the very minimum they must have been made on the basis of a police guarantee that matters would be manipulated so that courts would not impose additional punishment for the illusory offences .
22 He is believed to have been one of two armed men who last month hijacked a police car , prompting a manhunt over three Irish counties .
23 He dispatched a police patrol car , but when it arrived 16 minutes later the telephone was swinging on the end of its cord .
24 He has now been positively identified by detectives as one of two men who hijacked a police car when traffic patrol officers checked out a suspect van in Co Limerick three weeks ago .
25 About three hundred burst through a police cordon between the park behind the embassy and the road outside .
26 The communique which accompanied the agreement accepted the principle that , when the UDR and the Army came into contact with the public , a police officer should , whenever possible , be present .
27 This is very much the way in which the law approaches the extraction of the truth , and it is different both from the vivid imprecision of ordinary life and the intimacy of a police interrogation .
28 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 .
29 One old man hauled into a police van declared : ‘ They 've invited us to the birthday celebrations , do n't you see ! ’
30 Robert Heslop , 70 , of Tanfield Lea , Stanley , Co Durham , died from head injuries after being in an accident with a police car on Saturday night while crossing a road .
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