Example sentences of "[prep] a police " in BNC.

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1 The Sheffield United manager , who was accused of foul language and making a V-sign by Chelsea fans , was cleared after a police investigation .
2 A lot of people like it because basically th er when you look after a police dog it becomes your pet as well , you take it home with you and you take it to work with you , and the u you 'll have a police dog for sort of like its working life of seven to eight years , so basically you 're gon na have him for seven to eight years and he becomes a fa like a family pet .
3 Riots erupted in the Mount Pleasant area of Washington DC , on May 5 , hours after a police officer shot and critically wounded a Hispanic man .
4 Support for the US-installed Endara government fell sharply and its legitimacy was further undermined in December 1990 when US troops intervened to restore order after a police rebellion [ see p. 37912 ] .
5 Riot police in Oxford clashed with youths over three nights from Sept. 1 after a police crackdown on " hotting " — racing stolen cars through Blackbird Leys estate at high speed ; a woman suffered severe stab wounds during clashes on Sept. 3 .
6 Two people have been charged with firearms offences after a police operation to smash a gun ring .
7 LEADING UDA figures in West Belfast have gone into hiding following a police swoop on the organisation 's headquarters on the Shankill Road .
8 Three men were arrested following a police operation in Birtley , near Gateshead , Tyne and Wear , on Saturday night .
9 The Disciplinary Code in Schedule 1 to the Police ( Discipline ) Regulations 1985 contains an offence of ‘ improper disclosure of information ’ , which is committed where a member of a police force without proper authority communicates to any person , any information which he has in his possession as a member of a police force .
10 The Disciplinary Code in Schedule 1 to the Police ( Discipline ) Regulations 1985 contains an offence of ‘ improper disclosure of information ’ , which is committed where a member of a police force without proper authority communicates to any person , any information which he has in his possession as a member of a police force .
11 Improper disclosure of information , which offence is committed where a member of a police force ( a ) without proper authority communicates to any person , any information which he has in his possession as a member of a police force …
12 Improper disclosure of information , which offence is committed where a member of a police force ( a ) without proper authority communicates to any person , any information which he has in his possession as a member of a police force …
13 Another binary is created here , for we became separated in our communitas of spontaneity from the rigid belief systems and certainties of a police structure rooted in language , law , and custom .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 The bishops ' caution came after 2,500 Basques marched through San Sebastian on Saturday protesting against ETA 's killing of a police officer , Jose Angel Alvarez , father of six .
17 The police are called upon to perform many public services ( for example , see Punch 1979b ; Punch and Naylor 1973 ) , which is true even of a police force in a divided society like Northern Ireland , as the last chapter showed .
18 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 .
19 On his way round , via the Operations Room , he hears about the armed escort vehicles in hot pursuit of a police Hotspur Land-Rover , which in turn is giving chase to an orange Lada for minor motoring offences .
20 Mr Coetsee said a warrant would also be issued for the arrest of Captain Dirk Coetzee , the former head of a police murder squad who confirmed and amplified Nofomela 's disclosures , claiming that the killings had been approved at the highest level .
21 Wearing his very best clothes and shoes , he had played all alone in the pouring rain while she and a balding detective discussed important business behind the steamy windows of a police car .
22 He had told Ladislav when the Communists came to power : ‘ This is the beginnings of a police state . ’
23 Meadowell has even discovered a new martyr in the shape of one Willy Hunter , a local hard nut awaiting trial for murder , and allegedly the victim of a police frame-up .
24 Censorship is alive and well , one arm of a police state which has shed the outer trappings of communism to survive .
25 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 .
26 At least one of the companies involved , which does not advertise its holidays with travel agents , is now the subject of a police investigation .
27 At least one of the companies involved , which does not advertise its holidays with travel agents , is now the subject of a police investigation .
28 They had last gone through the pointless business in the visitors ' room of a police station .
29 A Renaissance had last happened in the days of the ‘ Glasgow Boys ’ and the other artists , architects and the like at the turn of the 20th century , and one of the stars of that re-birth of style and innovation , was the late , great son of a police superintendent , Charles Rennie Mackintosh .
30 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 .
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