Example sentences of "in a police " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 The field-worker was a captive audience to whom members of the force could display their competence when riding around Easton in a police vehicle , and conversations were punctuated by policemen pointing out significant sites and personnel .
4 For example , a drunken woman was brought into the station one night after assaulting a policewoman and using very abusive language , something to be expected from gougers , but was allowed home uncharged after spending a night in the cells : she was even allowed to leave early enough in the morning to avoid all but the milkman from seeing her arrive home in a police vehicle .
5 In a police statement she said : ‘ On Malta he visited a friend who owns a bakery and a brother whose name is Abdes Salam .
6 They were seized in a police raid on his home .
7 IN A POLICE STATE
8 ‘ Last week a woman who lives near here was arrested for not paying her fine , and she was actually put in a police wagon headed for Mountjoy Jail in Dublin , ’ Mrs Knelle told me .
9 By most measures Meadowell is the worst council estate in Britain , and probably the most notorious since the riots last September , which followed the deaths of joyriders Colin Atkins and Dale Robson in a police chase .
10 Diplomatic sources who witnessed the incident said he was driven off at speed in a police convoy and his whereabouts are unknown .
11 He was in top form , witty and debonair , and the party continued until the next day when Modigliani , still in a happy mood , became so rowdy that he had to be thrown out and locked in a police cell all night .
12 They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours .
13 It is in section 58(1) , which declares in ringing terms that a person arrested and held in custody in a police station or other premises shall be entitled , if he so requests , to consult a solicitor privately at any time ’ .
14 When an American member of the International League for Civil Liberties is shot dead in a police ambush , the killing is explained as an unfortunate but justifiable occurrence in the war against terrorism .
15 Johnson was rushed away from the airport in a police motorcade .
16 Within days sixteen-year-old Anita was again in a police report .
17 This is one for the tigers a traditional links with fairways wriggling between sand dunes and where bunkers and gorse are as thick as thieves in a police cell .
18 A PRISONER in a police car died when he fell under its wheels while trying to escape .
19 SIX people have been arrested and nine million dollars of fake notes recovered in a police raid .
20 The RRA 's chairperson , Ted Forde , commented ‘ It 's clear now we live in a police state ’ .
21 Trying to dissuade a father from sending his gay teenager to a psychiatrist ; calming someone who 's just been beaten up in a police cell ; sharing someone 's joy at discovering that there 's another lesbian in the next village , all serve to remove some of the complacency which can so easily set in .
22 They were then smuggled out of the building in a police decoy operation , being driven away in unmarked cars with blankets over their heads .
23 He was arrested on 25 November 1991 and held overnight in a police cell in Urosevac .
24 A PASSER-BY paid £4 to take part in a police video identification parade of a robbery was given the police photographer 's expensive leather jacket to wear and asked to jog down some steps and round a corner .
25 And he was the second Bristol joyrider to die in a police chase this week .
26 Later more obscene material was seized in a police raid on his home .
27 One minute I was in Holland working as a clerk in a police station and the next I was zooming all around the world .
28 We 're also buzzed by two cops in a police car who spot our New Jersey number plate and think we 've come down to score crack in Washington Heights .
29 One front-page exclusive in the Daily Mirror reported that child porn photos involving two top television stars were uncovered in a police raid on a photographic studio .
30 A MAN injured in a police shoot-out was last night in hospital with chest wounds while police pieced together the tangled events of a night of violence that also left one man dead and three policemen injured .
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