Example sentences of "[to-vb] police [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D d er do the people get to know police officers name ? |
| 2 | A reluctance to prosecute police officers . |
| 3 | At the outset parties were reminded that they could not hold political meetings in places of worship and had to obtain police permission to hold any meetings at all . |
| 4 | On May 6 the government announced that the security forces had made 28 arrests in foiling plans by the Islamic Jihad group to bomb police stations in Cairo and Jizah . |
| 5 | We will redeploy police resources in order to increase police presence in local communities and establish local neighbourhood offices . |
| 6 | It was seen as necessary to increase police powers to ban and control demonstrations and marches and to remove ambiguities in the existing law . |
| 7 | We are continuing to increase police numbers . |
| 8 | This elaboration indicates the process of social change , for it reveals an increasing separation between ‘ real polises ’ and a public who are much less likely now to accept police versions of reality ; while increasing ‘ civilianization ’ within the forces presents another perceived challenge to the defensive integrity and introspection of the institution . |
| 9 | There is particular concern that an informant may try to set police officer against police officer and force against force . |
| 10 | ( b ) Failure to answer police questions does not , by itself , amount to obstruction of the police in the execution of their duty . |
| 11 | A refusal to answer police questions is plainly not an offence under section 51(3) . |
| 12 | A refusal to answer police questions undoubtedly makes the policeman 's job more difficult when the person interrogated knows the correct answers , and the suspect intends to make the task of the police more difficult , in the sense that he is fully aware that he is doing so . |
| 13 | KIM GRIFFIN , the eight-week-old whose parents refused to answer police questions about her death , was unlawfully killed , according to an inquest verdict yesterday . |
| 14 | A MOTORIST who witnessed a violent street robbery has failed to answer police pleas for help — even though they probably hold the vital key to solving the crime . |
| 15 | Examples include warning someone so as to render police investigation fruitless ( Hinchcliffe v Sheldon [ 1955 ] 1 WLR 1207 ) and drinking alcohol after driving to frustrate the breath test procedure ( Ingleton v Dibble [ 1972 ] 1 QB 480 ) . |
| 16 | Cattle transport routes were taken into account when the authorities decided where to open police stations , and efforts were made to enforce branding and voucher regulations . |
| 17 | On June 12 Prime Minister Edith Cresson announced a F140,000,000 ( about US$23,000,000 ) emergency plan to help 300,000 young people in 400 low-income suburbs , and to counter police organizations ' complaints of lack of policy planning and inadequate resources . |
| 18 | The government decreed that land was to remain the property of the landlords , that peasants were to remain subject to communal organizations ( which reduced the likelihood that they might turn into entrepreneurs ) , that the gentry would continue to exercise police duties in the countryside , and that state and local taxes were to be paid as before . |
| 19 | Nor would such a study have been given permission by the RUC , for it is utopian to expect police authorities in divided societies to open up these sections of their force to scrutiny and observation by outsiders . |
| 20 | The other may well have had something to do with a desire to spike police interference with football . |
| 21 | That is what it is , a tool to help police officers carry out their difficult task of investigating and detecting crime and bringing offenders to justice . |
| 22 | Also blamed are other Arabs — Lebanese , Sudanese , Yemenis and Jordanians — who were brought in by the Iraqis to help police Kuwait . |
| 23 | So they 'd seem to be ideal for anyone wishing to avoid police cameras . |
| 24 | While trying to avoid police officers guarding the building , Howard falls headlong into a cellar . |
| 25 | One way to strengthen this position is to use police definitions of abuse : |
| 26 | Headmen were inclined to use police powers in their own interests rather than act as bureaucratic tools . |
| 27 | At one time during field-work the traffic police became more unpopular than usual because they were under instruction not to let police colleagues off minor traffic violations . |
| 28 | You have declined to give police details of your account for reasons that are best known to yourself and in my view the only inference I can draw from that is that you have the money at least to pay a fine . ’ |
| 29 | They are not intended to confine police investigation of crime to conduct which might be regarded as sporting to those under investigation . |
| 30 | Although such figures might create public alarm , the main reason given for non-reporting was because the offence was considered too trivial to waste police time ( 38 per cent of reasons given ) , or that the police could do nothing about it ( 16 per cent ) . |