Example sentences of "of a [adj] police [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had explained to her mother how it was an innovation for Hoggatt 's having a clerical officer on the desk instead of a junior police officer . |
| 2 | Thompson ( 1980 ) has warned of the potential danger of a strong police autocracy , conscious , no doubt , of the slim line which exists between the democratic use of power and its subversion by a more centralized totalitarianism . |
| 3 | Drawing back the curtains , he saw a pair of men in blue overalls get out of a black police car , open the gates to the yard and give a mock salute as the driver and his passenger drove in . |
| 4 | Mr Shahal , moreover , has been discussing the creation of a Palestinian police force for the West Bank and Gaza . |
| 5 | It is the beginning of the search for a confession rather than the conclusion of a well-managed police operation . |
| 6 | The establishment of a European police Office ( Europol ) has been condemned by Interpol as unnecessary and likely to lead to confusion . |
| 7 | The European Council agreed on the creation of a European police office ( Europol ) , the initial function of which would be to organize the exchange of information on narcotic drugs at the level of the Community 's 12 member states … |
| 8 | In Moss v. McLachlan for example , the setting up of road blocks , etc. , was clearly part of a coordinated police strategy , not wholly governed by the decisions of the policeman on the spot ( although , as the quote from Moss v. McLachlan illustrates , it was the assessment of the senior police officers present that was being made the subject of review ) . |
| 9 | You compare the lowest figure for an out-of-London ambulance worker ( on £10,000 ) with the possible earnings of a Metropolitan police constable ( £25,000 ) . |
| 10 | The Minister of Law and Order Hernus Kriel announced on Nov. 8 the formation of a new police unit which would have the specific task of stabilizing and controlling political unrest . |
| 11 | Could it be a coincidence that this huge increase came after the formation of a new police policy designed to encourage victims of violence to report ? |
| 12 | The spectacle last week of 400 officers in riot gear running round the Broadwater Farm Estate and finding little or nothing in the way of drugs reminded me of Sir Robert Mark 's definition of a good police force as one which employed fewer criminals than it caught . |
| 13 | I 'm part of a major police operation . |
| 14 | What they 've been told has led to the establishment of a major police investigation , assisted by three full time social workers , going back over 20 years . |
| 15 | Granted the intriguing premise , one might reasonably expect some attempt to probe the morality of a privatised police force , and of a society which allows someone like Kuffs to buy and use firearms as casually as he does here , but no . |
| 16 | This fear of the mob has continued to haunt the executive , who saw that control could best be determined by the installation of a professional police organization formulated on strict hierarchic , semi-militaristic lines , and possessed of discipline , obedience , and loyalty . |
| 17 | In the early years of British rule the government paid far more attention to the judicial system than to either the police duties of headmen or the establishment of a regular police force . |
| 18 | In reality , road-blocking was part of a broad police strategy , decided upon at a high level , aimed at preventing ‘ flying pickets ’ travelling from county to county lending support to striking miners . |
| 19 | 10 years later , in spite of a massive police investigation which named the officers guilty of Blair 's death , not a single policeman has faced prosecution or disciplinary action . |
| 20 | All day long at the Janata Dal officers in Amethi yesterday , Mr Jain and his supporters scrambled to update the list of party workers and activists who were beaten up by Congress I supporters — many of them in the presence of a senior police officer . |
| 21 | In November 1990 the government removed the power of arrest from the military police following the August murder of a senior police chief who was investigating army officers thought to be involved in criminal activities . |
| 22 | Raphael Samuels has also reported an instance of a suspected police informer in the East End who was visited by a mob who expressed their displeasure by burning effigies . |
| 23 | A Home Secretary spends many hours conscientiously reading background papers which set out the whole history of a single police officer 's alleged offences , sometimes in a bundle of papers an inch thick , in order that justice and equity may be done . |
| 24 | That day brought the acquittal of a white police officer , William Lozano , of the killing of two black men in January 1989 . |
| 25 | It was the first conviction of a white police officer on charges arising from such killings . |
| 26 | At the other extreme , they can not long do the job of a local police force . |
| 27 | Where A makes a promise to B in consideration of B doing or promising to do something which he is already bound to do by reason of a duty imposed upon him by law , whether by a Statute or otherwise : for instance , the duty of a local police authority to afford adequate protection to A and his property ; |
| 28 | Federal investigators concluded that the thieves ( they were caught in the act ) had been shot with revolvers on the order of a local police captain who then , with the help of a town official , instigated the lynching to mask the shooting . |
| 29 | The speed of the Home Secretary 's intervention and the rapid deployment of riot-trained officers between forces ‘ announced the arrival of a national police response to ‘ civil disorder ’ ' ( Scraton , 1985a:149 ) . |
| 30 | It also examines a recent case study of a British police operation which exemplifies current trends . |