Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] a police " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As far as the police part of the Bill is concerned , the er Government er under considerable pressure from erm er er members on their own side er as well as from these benches , have made the er very welcome concession that the chairman of a police authority shall no longer be appointed er by the Secretary of State , by the Home Secretary , but elected from among the members of the police authority er they have also made provision that the er er er i in response to the er criticisms that were made at second reading that the size of the p of a police authority shall no longer be limited to er sixteen members but could er by er order of the Secretary of State be extended to er twenty er er er twenty-four members . |
| 3 | They were then smuggled out of the building in a police decoy operation , being driven away in unmarked cars with blankets over their heads . |
| 4 | Following the preliminary roadside ‘ breathalyser ’ test , the old code provided that the specimen to be taken for analysis from the driver at a police station should be of blood or urine , in effect at the driver 's option . |
| 5 | A POLICE hotline set up to take calls about a rave party in Stafford got two complaints — about the noise from a police helicopter . |
| 6 | THE brutal murder of a child leaves a firm trace on the mind of a police officer like an indelible pen . |
| 7 | Irrespective of its formal purpose to introduce community policing , the appearance of a neighbourhood patrol restricts its effects to simply the demonstration of a police presence on the streets . |
| 8 | PC Timms strolled into the inn , confronted the man at the bar and accused him of being Robert James , wanted for the murder of a police officer at Harwell . |
| 9 | In January 1988 Leeds crown court excluded statements by the accused with the result that he was acquitted of the murder of a police sergeant and the attempted murder of a constable . |
| 10 | This was the murder of a police officer , one of their own , no one would step aside . |
| 11 | Two men have gone on trial for the murder of a police informer , whose body was found weighted down in a lake three years ago . |
| 12 | A witness at the trial of two men accused of the murder of a police informer has claimed that one defendent drove the victim to a meeting with the other , who them killed him . |
| 13 | Hillsborough was the result of a police decision to open an exit gate to allow mass entry onto an already crowded terrace . |
| 14 | A man whose name was linked to the killer of a police informer was found murdered at his home in Chapel Street , Stroud , Glos , early yesterday . |
| 15 | On Aug. 26 Inge Viett , 48 , a Red Army Faction ( RAF ) member , was sentenced to 13 years ' imprisonment for the attempted murder in Paris on Aug. 4 , 1981 , of a French policeman , whom she shot in the neck during a police chase . |
| 16 | The siege , which ended with Keith Pringle being shot in the neck by a police marksman , was the latest incident involving firearms and has renewed calls for a clampdown on Britain 's gun laws . |
| 17 | Pringle , of Thirlmere Road , Darlington , was shot in the neck by a police marksman on Tuesday after 21-year-old Leanne Rees had been held at gunpoint for 47 hours . |
| 18 | He was attending a conference which had been called to discuss the formation of a police force in Oxfordshire . |
| 19 | ‘ It raises the spectre of a police force increasingly controlled by the Home Secretary . ’ |
| 20 | Myeloski was beginning to realize that he could be taking on forces that encompassed the very people who ran the Soviet Union , the powermasters who employed him to keep the peace as a police officer . |
| 21 | In fact he had me arriving at the scene in a police car with two tones , at , at , at that time we did n't have police cars with two tones , just siren , so they obviously put some sound on it . |
| 22 | Finbar O'Doherty presided and denounced the RUC ban on the original route : ‘ On future occasions the question of a police ban at the dictates of their Orange masters would be a matter for meeting in a different manner . ' |
| 23 | She picked up the bag , checked inside to see that everything was still there , and was about to confiscate the switchblade when she heard the sound of a police siren in the distance . |
| 24 | It was widely suspected that the Tucayana had links with the military and had been involved with anti-insurgency operations against the Jungle Commandos and that they feared the establishment of a police force for the interior composed mainly of former Jungle Commando members . |
| 25 | And you 're also summoned that on that same occasion you not having given your name and address to any person requiring it at the time , you failed to report the accident at a police station , or to a constable as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case within twenty four hours of it happening again , that 's an offence under section twenty five of the road traffic act to that effect do you plead guilty or not guilty ? |
| 26 | In cold January weather a crowd of 2,000 , kept on the pavement by a police cordon , lined the streets to watch the cortège , draped in the imperial splendour of red and white , move from the Chapmans ' home in Haslemere Avenue to Hendon Parish Church . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But old Hoggatt founded the place as a police lab , and when the chips are down that 's what it 's all about . |
| 29 | He is accompanied in the cab by a police officer armed with binoculars , two cellphones and a radio who can spot vandals hundreds of yards ahead . |
| 30 | He is accompanied in the cab by a police officer armed with binoculars , two cellphones and a radio , able to spot vandals hundreds of yards ahead . |