Example sentences of "[adj] police [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is a measure of the tension and complexities of our contemporary society that the police have gradually been transformed from a universal corpus of ordinary police officers performing all manner of general duties , including public order maintenance , to one which now in part approaches the quasi-military-order police model of continental Europe and elsewhere .
2 Another police officer opened the front door of her house .
3 A police officer negligently sent the plaintiff , another police officer , into the tunnel , against the traffic flow .
4 Another police chief was sacked .
5 We should warn you that next March 12th another police constable will be on foot duty in Convent St. , and should he notice a repetition of your behaviour , we shall have to consider the possibility of taking even more stringent action than we have on this occasion .
6 Another police word .
7 SDLP deputy leader Seamus Mallon has called for the immediate suspension of the officers involved and for the investigation to be carried out by officers from another police force .
8 The jury has heard after Magee and O'Brien drove off their Sierra was chased by Pc Whitehouse and WPc Larkin in another police car .
9 Another police car , parked on the village green .
10 There was another police car at the kerb , with a woman sitting in the back .
11 The stolen car collided with the land rover , bounced off it and then hit another police car .
12 Soon after he had learned another police car giving chase had lost the men 's Ford Sierra nearby .
13 On the river , another police launch had arrived to complement the first one .
14 Dhirendra Saha and another police doctor , Chulam Salim , both from Grimsby , were found guilty at Nottingham crown court of the manslaughter of heroin addict Graham Rawlinson , 23 .
15 Even if it is not technically required , it would no doubt be sensible police practice to spell out the fact that an arrest is imminent in the event of non-compliance .
16 Since the mental element required for the commission of the the offences of organisation and participation is knowledge which the courts increasingly interpret to require an awareness of all the circumstances by virtue of which it is said that an offence is committed , it may well be sensible police practice to issue a warning before arresting and prosecuting with an offence under this Part of the Act .
17 The abduction sparked a house-to-house police search in the Willenhall area of Coventry .
18 It also examines a recent case study of a British police operation which exemplifies current trends .
19 Belpan 's police force , if at all , were trained in the British police tradition .
20 This somewhat idiosyncratic interpretation is no doubt coloured by the specificities of French history , yet there is little doubt that the British police system is also a political construction of the nineteenth century , created to contain the potential in the newly urbanized working classes for mob disorder , which the excesses of the military had seemed likely to exacerbate rather than disperse .
21 I hope the Noble Earl will be able to give me an answer in perhaps in correspondence following this , also the date upon which at they were informed , because I am sure he will realise the implications as far as the rest of the British Police Service are concerned that as from April of this year they will have to take on a heavy burden of work which is now being carried out by the British Transport Police .
22 They have taken this position not because they are resistant to change , but because they believe that these proposals will politicise the British Police Service and they are in my view entirely right to have that view .
23 I must tell the House it is probably one of the most momentous in the history of the British Police Service .
24 There is a real danger that the passage of this clause unamended will do the most grievous damage to the British Police Service , that is not simply my view , it is the opinion of every chief officer of police with whom I have discussed this matter .
25 For the conventional ‘ cop-sided ’ histories of British police development , Coldbath Fields marks the crucial turning-point in their battle to win consent for their very existence .
26 As though this were not enough , a gang of Ugandan footpads then raided the homes of the newly-arrived British police training mission and made off with their video machines — plus their training tapes for the local police on how to prevent burglaries .
27 In February 1944 , the Irgun Zwei Leumi , ( the Irgun , in short ) killed a British police inspector and constable .
28 As the director of the Police Foundation , Barrie Irving ( 1984 : 4 ) commented , ‘ Unlike their American counterparts , the British police community , together with their administrators , do not devour large quantities of written material [ and ] if a research project does not produce results which can be acted upon … no amount of careful editing and dissemination will make an impact . ’
29 The PSI report is the most detailed study of a British police force yet produced , and Section Four of the report , entitled ‘ The police and people in London ’ , examines the relationship between the police and the public in some depth .
30 Under the Act , the British police force is divided into forty-three separate constabularies .
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