Example sentences of "number [prep] police " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even a number of police forces including Dorset and Bedford have switched to diesel patrol cars . |
| 2 | In August 1988 a number of police officers joined forces to pursue a person whom it was alleged had been driving recklessly . |
| 3 | After a three-year investigation involving the Police Complaints Authority , it was announced that a number of police officers were to be admonished or advised about their conduct and were to face disciplinary charges . |
| 4 | A number of police officers face charges relating to their alleged misbehaviour on that night , after complaints involving more than 100 officers were referred to the Police Complaints Authority . |
| 5 | The Assistant Government Agent at Matara agreed that the establishment of village tribunals had led to a decrease in the number of police court cases , but asked ‘ what good end is obtained by merely removing the scene of litigation from one set of courts to another , and doubling the amount of litigation in the process , and how it is supposed that by increasing litigation twofold the peace and harmony of the district is secured , and litigation robbed of all the rancour and bad feelings it engenders in the ordinary courts ? ’ |
| 6 | In 1872 , when a fifteen cent stamp fee for criminal plaints was instituted , the number of police court cases immediately fell by one-third . |
| 7 | The authorities took no chances , doubling the number of police on duty , closing schools along the march route and diverting the farmers away from both the European parliament and US consulate fearing they would come under attack . |
| 8 | But apart from the number of police rapidly increasing , their technological and quasi-military capacities shamelessly strengthened , their discretionary powers of apprehension , interrogation , detention , and arrest liberally extended , and new prisons built or old ones extensively refurbished ( all with money the government claims the country has not got to maintain existing standards of education , health , unemployment welfare , and social services ) , nothing much justifies the optimism . |
| 9 | ‘ A steward had his head cut through being struck , it is believed , with a spanner , ’ the Times correspondent wrote , ‘ The chairman read the Public Meetings Act 1908 in the presence of a large number of police . |
| 10 | And he was to be the first of a growing number of police officers to take part once a week — as we tried to persuade our viewers to do more to help the police in preventing and solving crimes , as well as catching the villains . |
| 11 | A substantial number of police came out with truncheons , went into the house and very forcibly removed eight women and drove them off to Risley . |
| 12 | During half-time today a number of police officers will be questioning you all over the disappearance , during the early hours of Monday morning , of our grandstand . |
| 13 | People on the bus were talking about the number of police cars on the road and someone said another girl was missing . |
| 14 | Between May 1979 and March 1988 the number of police officers increased 11 per cent ( from 111,493 to 124,080 ) . |
| 15 | a careful reading of this study ( Carr-Hill and Stern ) shows that the authors never carried out the test in question … but instead test the contribution of unemployment to explaining the number of police per capita in each area . |
| 16 | they had met at a number of police conferences . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , after the Baltic Exchange bomb last year , the Corporation of London increased the number of police officers by 40 at a cost £1.5m , the extra cost being mainly borne by the large financial institutions . |
| 18 | When my right hon. Friend is considering Cumbria 's representations , will he also consider the position of Cambridgeshire , where the number of police per thousand population is the lowest in the country ? |
| 19 | If Strathclyde increased the number of police officers by 200 to the complement that it deserves , there would be a much stronger law and order policy there . |
| 20 | The number of police officers has increased enormously during the past 10 years . |
| 21 | On the question of police numbers , why has the Minister constantly refused to provide chief constables with the number of police officers that they need to reduce crime ? |
| 22 | But the actual number of police officers employed at 15 |
| 23 | Hilda Lini , the Prime Minister 's sister and a VP MP , proposed that a number of police and court functions might , under the terms of the amended constitution , be shifted to the traditional authority structures of the villages . |
| 24 | The number of police and troops was put at 50,000 . |
| 25 | The state police commander and prison director were also arrested as were a great number of police officers . |
| 26 | The report was also highly critical of the LTTE for the summary killing of Sinhalese , of Moslems and of Tamils suspected of " treason " , and for the massacre of a large number of police taken prisoner in June 1990 [ see pp. 37529-30 ] ; a mass grave containing the corpses of 35 police was found near Batticaloa on Sept. 9 , the third such discovery in recent weeks . |
| 27 | The trial began amid controversy when the presiding judge , Stanley M. Weisberg , chose to move the venue to Ventura County , an almost exclusively white area inhabited by a disproportionately large number of police officers . |
| 28 | You 've had a bit of luck there , you might turn the other way next year , and you might find that you 've got an increased number of police retiring , and if you have , you 're going to find extreme pressure on the police budget , and you will see that there is the reductions that the Chief Constable told you he would have to make if that happened . |
| 29 | And we know that through that period , there has been a steady increase in the number of police officers the county have got , and this county has always up to now , willingly funded those police officers . |
| 30 | A freeze on the number of police officers , but we know that through the review of the police ranking system , that the Home Secretary has said that will mean a considerable number , and I think the figure of two thousand was mentioned , extra officers will be back on the beat . |