Example sentences of "of police [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lea ( 1986 ) , in a discussion of police racism , suggests that a common theory of apologists for the police force is the ‘ bad apple ’ approach which views the problem as one of individual officers being bigoted . |
| 2 | This can tie into the occupational or ‘ canteen culture ’ explanation of police racism , which in the words of the Policy Studies Institute ( Smith and Gray 1983 ) suggests that racialist talk : |
| 3 | This view puts the dynamic of police racism in the norms and values through which the police define their roles and legitimate their activities . |
| 4 | Left realism is not intentionally racist , but it has been responded to as such , because of the complex element of police racism . |
| 5 | Trial of police chief — Legal decision on status of foetus — Massacre by Sydney gunman |
| 6 | Resignation of police chief |
| 7 | While there are , of course , many recent causes célèbres of police abuse ( Reiner , 1985 , ch. 2. 2 ) , memoirs of earlier times ( e.g. Mark , 1978 ; Daley , 1986 ) suggest that there was an enormous extent of subterranean wrong-doing in the cosy days of the traditional bobby on the beat . |
| 8 | As to serious and organised crime , in the 1990s we must address the subject of police structure with greater enthusiasm . |
| 9 | The vilification of Arthur Scargill , the unbalanced emphasis on picket-line violence and intimidation , the failure to explain issues at the heart of the strike , the criminalization of striking miners , the unquestioned assumptions of police neutrality and the fundamental contradiction between the reality experienced by striking communities and the distorted presentation of that reality through the mass media — these were the key components of the media 's ideological policing of the strike . |
| 10 | Critics of consultative committees dismiss them as ineffectual talking shops , dominated by the ‘ concerned and worthy ’ middle classes and excluding those members of dispossessed minorities on the receiving end of police policies ( Brogden et al. , 1988:176 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ At present , only about one per cent of police officers in England and Wales and about 1.5 per cent of Metropolitan Police officers are from racial minorities . ’ |
| 12 | The committee proposes relaxation of height requirements and an equal opportunities policy ‘ based on a genuine commitment to increase the proportion of police officers from the ethnic minorities to match the proportion in the local population . ’ |
| 13 | Police helmets could be seen bobbing above the crowd as a small corps of police officers attempted to force their way through to rescue Clasper from the hands of the mob . |
| 14 | ‘ The benefits of such a development would be a renewal of public confidence and a reawakening of the morale of police officers of all ranks . ’ |
| 15 | Information collected on the professional experience of front-line practitioners revealed that the majority of police officers w&re more experienced than their social work counterparts . |
| 16 | The practice developed of ferrying this minority of strike-breakers to their collieries in NCB vehicles , protected all the way by large numbers of police officers . |
| 17 | In August 1988 a number of police officers joined forces to pursue a person whom it was alleged had been driving recklessly . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | New policing strategies The commitment of large numbers of police officers to the task of keeping the pits open made it impossible for the National Union of Mineworkers to achieve a total shut-down in domestic coal production . |
| 20 | A second feature of public order policing highlighted by the miners ' strike was the use of èlite groups of police officers within each police force . |
| 21 | But the miners ' strike did not only reveal that èlite groups of police officers were operating to some extent under national co-ordination and control . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Watch Committee 's dismissal of one Liverpool constable in 1843 illustrates the orthodox explanation of the rapid turnover of police officers in the early years , when a force such as the Metropolitan could lose one-third of its work-force annually . |
| 24 | Meet these demands and the targeting of police officers will stop ! |
| 25 | At his east London home Vernage had crude pictures and photographs of police officers pinned to a wall . |
| 26 | Just before dawn on Thursday , Joanna was dumped a quarter of a mile from the spot where she had vanished , right under the noses of police officers searching for her . |
| 27 | ( ‘ Reliance is rightly placed ’ , he wrote , ‘ on the integrity and competence of police officers . ’ ) |
| 28 | Unremarkable by the standards of police officers , that is . |
| 29 | A team of police officers swooped on the men 's home in Penny Lane at 9am yesterday and arrested them after breaking down the front door . |
| 30 | They were : ( a ) murders in the course or furtherance of theft , ( b ) murders by shooting or causing an explosion , ( c ) murders in the course or for the purpose of resisting lawful arrest or of escaping from legal custody , ( d ) murders of police officers in the execution of their duty and persons assisting them , and ( e ) murders by prisoners of prison officers in the execution of their duty and persons assisting them . |