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

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1 Looking at five sets of data relating to different police areas , the author finds that the proportion of defendants given bail who are found guilty of offences committed while they were on bail is around 10 to 12 per cent. , rising to some 17 per cent .
2 However , this tactic has been abandoned due to improved police surveillance and the greater likelihood of being caught .
3 These figures provide political ammunition to chief police officers arguing for more resources , although this is clearly a double-edged sword since the figures could be interpreted as showing the police being unable to do much about crime levels .
4 This places a greater burden on local fraud squads attached to individual police forces .
5 I wonder how much of that information is passed on to individual police officers .
6 Partisan Street , opposite the Reach , was a rough place , well used to answering police enquiries .
7 Contact with less advanced elements might well fluctuate , subject as it was to constant police intervention .
8 I have many examples in my fieldnotes which show this mode of thought to be so ingrained , that even when the possibility of making such a journey ‘ back ’ to basic police work has long since evaporated , the supremacy of the belief still remains :
9 He should recall that in the last two years of the last Labour Government , up to 5,000 police men and women were leaving the police force each year and voting with their feet .
10 The Home Secretary performs the following functions in relation to all police forces : ( a ) Some degree of control over the appointment and dismissal of senior officers .
11 His description was circulated to all police forces throughout Britain , and a number of anxious relatives visited the mortuary to see if they could recognise him as a missing husband , brother or son , but no one did .
12 National training in basic interviewing skills to be given to all police officers — this recognises the central role that confessions play in the police investigative strategy and the need to train officers out of the use of the ‘ persuasive techniques ’ , witnessed by the Commission 's researchers , which run the risk of producing unreliable evidence , in favour of a more open minded and even handed approach .
13 The drug squads discovered more cases of drug use , which led to more police manpower and money being invested , which led to more discovery .
14 ERDOGAN KIZILKAYA : aged 23 , on 4 August 1991 he was taken from his home in Kayseri , Central Turkey , to Kayseri Police Headquarters and reportedly interrogated under torture in connection with his alleged membership of the armed organization Devrimci Sol ( Revolutionary Left ) .
15 Banks are often reluctant to admit being stung , but the company involved could be committing a crime itself , according to one police expert .
16 The community does relate to one police officer .
17 He was blindfolded and taken to Secret Police headquarters .
18 Meciar , 49 , had been a member of Public Against Violence and a minister in the Slovak government after the collapse of the Communist regime ( and before his own increasing identification with Slovak nationalist causes ) , and had become Slovak Prime Minister after the June 1990 elections , but was dismissed in April 1991 following allegations that he had abused his access to secret police files [ see pp. 38161 ; 38830-31 ] .
19 Your equipment is registered on a national database , with details available to 51 police forces and over 500 used equipment dealers across the country .
20 The object of the operation was to ensure the man was brought out of the pit shaft without any harm to him or to any police officers or the workforce .
21 In my judgment , magistrates add an important element of non-political independence to any police authority and they help to improve the effectiveness of that authority .
22 The extent to which liability can be established can be explained , each party putting his version before the court referring to any police report if a road acccident , together with counsel 's opinion on liability if such has been obtained .
23 It is not that the Sergeant really objects to the constable having a legitimate excuse for being late , but it is because he too has to satisfy his superior officers that his omission to visit all the constables regularly is due to efficient Police duty .
24 ‘ It is quite simply not fair either to other police officers or to the public they serve to put them at risk by failing to deal with poor performance . ’
25 It is intended to disseminate the results of the analysis to other police forces which may seek to develop rational systems of management in the future .
26 There is one other distinguishing feature of researching the RUC compared to other police studies .
27 In addition , the police service itself has issued a code of practice setting out how the principles underlying the Data Protection Act should be applied to the PNC and to other police computer systems .
28 Police forces in this country are local forces accountable to local police authorities , except in London where the police authority is the Home Secretary .
29 Poachers in search of antlers are preying on red deer on Exmoor , according to local police sources .
30 In R. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department , ex parte Northumbria Police Authority , the police authority sought judicial review to compel the Home Secretary to withdraw a circular issuing plastic bullets and CS gas to local police forces .
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