Example sentences of "police have " in BNC.
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| 1 | To reinforce a belief in their own omnipotence and popularity , the police have made increasing use of market research to show they are well liked ; especially by that important category ‘ the silent majority ’ . |
| 2 | Furthermore , he will know that his contemporaries are not really too keen on its revelation : indeed they may well argue that the police have research facilities of their own which are geared up to the internal needs and interests of the institution ( Benyon 1988 : 21 ) . |
| 3 | there is a deep feeling that academic training gets between a policeman and his knowing and getting the respect of the crude masses of a very crude , very egalitarian and anti-intellectual European race … the police have indeed a general belief that they know more psychology than academics . |
| 4 | He argued , historically , that he knew ‘ of no period in which the police have had such a loud and didactic public presence , … [ or ] when they have offered themselves as a distinct interest as one of the great ‘ institutions ’ and perhaps the first in the realm ’ . |
| 5 | I suspect it is no accident the politics of the times seems to parallel the growing toughness of the police image , or that the police have taken on an increasing resemblance to the black-clothed enemies of goodness who sprinkle the popular science fantasy films such as Star Wars , Superman , and the like . |
| 6 | With the public appropriation of certain categories of property , however , the police have been on more certain ground , for the status attributed to the ‘ capture of the thief ’ has remained fairly constant , at least since the police were created as a public body . |
| 7 | Much of our daily work was ten years in advance of the official police community involvement programmes and yet our actions were only an extension of those social welfare activities the police have been heavily involved in for generations , but which are never given status as ‘ real police work ’ simply because of the institutional emphasis placed upon summons lists , numbers of arrests , crime detections , and other statistical returns . |
| 8 | However , since then the police have been remarkably reticent about the exact quantity of drugs which they recovered . |
| 9 | The police have had the estate under video surveillance for many weeks . |
| 10 | Suffolk police have arrested six men on suspicion of involvement in the theft of the bronzes . |
| 11 | Police have linked the crew to 30 murders ; Mr Edmond is charged with three . |
| 12 | Police have still to trace where the suspected bombers went between leaving Campbell Road on 16 September and the bombing six days later . |
| 13 | Sussex police have warned other female students on the campus to be on their guard after the attack on Sunday . |
| 14 | POLICE have found the van belonging to a murdered social worker half-a-mile from the drugs centre where her battered body was found . |
| 15 | Leeds play Sunderland tomorrow and police have appealed to supporters without tickets to stay away from Elland Road . |
| 16 | The almost inherent suspicion the police have of strangers was in the RUC 's case added to by worries about whether their personal security would be compromised and concern over the intentions of the police management . |
| 17 | We therefore dispute van Maanen 's view that researchers on the police have to be male ( 1981 : 480 ) , in order to be able to participate fully in the masculine occupational and leisure culture of the police . |
| 18 | What is more important than gender is the personality and skill of the fieldworker in overcoming the feelings of suspicion the police have of all outsiders , especially in the more enclosed and threatened world of the RUC , and in our case the field-worker 's gender seemed no bar to her obtaining access to the masculine ‘ canteen culture ’ of the men or to participating in conversations on the topics which are popular in that culture , which van Maanen describes as ‘ sports , cars and sex ’ ( 1981 : 476 ) . |
| 19 | Southgate ( 1980 : 33 ) has shown how British police have diffiulties in dealing with domestic disputes , but if anything the situation in Northern Ireland is easier for the police because they have a clearer knowledge of their role : to be on hand to prevent serious crime . |
| 20 | It is stories like these which help to protect Easton 's policemen and women from the loss of morale which Manning claims is an inevitable result of the contradiction between the image the police have of themselves and their work and the low-key nature of practical policing ( Manning 1977 : 349 ; also see Holdaway 1983 , 1988 , who makes a similar point ) . |
| 21 | Easton 's section police have two sets of primary typifications : one categorizing trouble-makers , the other the abnormal . |
| 22 | Quite often things will not go to plan because of the variability of people 's behaviour in situations of stress or the unusual and horrific nature of some of the calls the police have to attend . |
| 23 | It is clear from the nature of police work in the district that the relations the police have with the public in this largely Protestant area parallel those that police forces have in societies where religion is not a social marker . |
| 24 | There are the honest and decent people of Easton , and then the ‘ gougers ’ , ‘ mouths ’ , and other trouble-makers , with whom the police have as problematic a relationship as do all police forces with miscreants . |
| 25 | Hence the attitudes that section police have towards Easton 's ‘ gougers ’ , virtually all of whom are Protestant , are typical of those that policemen and women everywhere have towards criminals . |
| 26 | This reflects the view of head teachers that what the police have to offer does not apply to their children rather than any unwillingness among the police to deal with middle-class children , or , even more preposterously , a belief that grammar school children present no problems in terms of juvenile crime . |
| 27 | This was not always successful because of the autonomy neighbourhood police have while on the beat , and he told us , with some regret , that as a final resort he was instructed by the sergeant not to take his book of fixed-penalty tickets with him when he was accompanied by the field-worker . |
| 28 | The observational data show that Easton 's neighbourhood police have two recipes for resolving this dilemma and its associated conundrum . |
| 29 | Indeed , a popular view amongst community relations police in the area is that many more schools would welcome them but for intimidation , a factor which the community relations police have to be very sensitive towards if they are not to threaten the safety of children and teachers . |
| 30 | Under the Quadripartite Agreement for Berlin the East German Police have no jurisdiction over any of the three Western Powers , though they often try to assert their authority by demanding that soldiers produce identity documents . |