Example sentences of "a police [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was subsequently Chief Constable of the combined Sheffield and Rotherham Police Force which whilst a joint committee , still regarded so very much as serving the two separate authorities and finally I was Chief in a Metropolitan country , with a county council and a police committee and I 'm quite sure that the police were much more sensitive to the needs and the wishes of their local communities when you were sitting at one of those , not necessarily police committee meetings , but the county council meetings , when they discussed the minutes of the police authority . |
| 2 | Gqozo said he had been forewarned of a coup plot , and the two conspirators were stopped by a police road block as they attempted to enter the capital , Bisho , from the direction of Transkei . |
| 3 | Miss Jeanette , who at the time was Nichol 's 16year-old girlfriend , told how a week after the attack they were stopped at a police road block . |
| 4 | Near Perth , they burst through a police road block , put in place for another enquiry . |
| 5 | That 's not really a police word is it ? |
| 6 | Over the weekend she helped a police artist draw an impression of her attacker . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Albert Rice was knocked down as he left a pub by a police Sierra racing to answer a distress call from two WPCs . |
| 9 | The field-worker was a captive audience to whom members of the force could display their competence when riding around Easton in a police vehicle , and conversations were punctuated by policemen pointing out significant sites and personnel . |
| 10 | For example , a drunken woman was brought into the station one night after assaulting a policewoman and using very abusive language , something to be expected from gougers , but was allowed home uncharged after spending a night in the cells : she was even allowed to leave early enough in the morning to avoid all but the milkman from seeing her arrive home in a police vehicle . |
| 11 | Branson was wired to a tape-recorder connected to a police vehicle outside . |
| 12 | I was the commander and er I was erm in a control vehicle , a police vehicle , er was parked nearby to the flat . |
| 13 | If they 're gon na be driving from village to village , they might as well work from a police station and drive from village to village in a transit van or a police vehicle . |
| 14 | The Sierra Cosworth was chased along the A5 before it crashed into a police roadblock near Milton Keynes . |
| 15 | However , in April a thief who fled from a house in Hartlepool , Cleveland onto an adjacent cricket pitch was apprehended on the boundary by two of the fielding side — one a prison officer , the other a police cadet . |
| 16 | Then , since this did n't appear to be enough either he hurried on , ‘ Her nephew is a police cadet . |
| 17 | Senior Police Officers from the United States and from our partners in Europe believe that we have succeeded in creating a police service that is politically independent , unlike those in their own countries where all powerful politicians , be they ministers of the interior or mayors , have imposed their will upon the police and often with the most damaging consequences . |
| 18 | Each policeman is supplied with a police court attendance card , on which is recorded the date of all attendances at police court in connection with charges or summonses , and each entry has to be initialled by the officer in charge of the station . |
| 19 | Up to the passing of the new Act , the loan societies recovered money owed to them either by a summons to a Court of Requests or to a Police Court . |
| 20 | The initial decision of the complainant was not without importance , for if , after hearing the evidence of witnesses , the justice of the peace decided that the case was not serious enough to be sent to a superior court , he could not then and there try it as a police court case . |
| 21 | For instance , the maximum period of imprisonment for simple theft was three years , much longer than the six months term which a police court could now impose . |
| 22 | The two claims were made for damage to machines , and neither was serious or a Police Court case . " |
| 23 | Well of course erm the basis used to be that many courts erm had written above them ‘ Police Court ’ and I think some of the older courts where this was sort of carved in stone may still have this above them , but Magistrates have gone to great lengths erm in recent times to emphasise this is not a police court , this is a magistrates ' court . |
| 24 | Paramount supremo Frank Mancuso received death threats as he voiced plans to do a Police Academy -style Star Trek . |
| 25 | Dr Major , a police physician , found Day 's trousers smothered with red lead , thereby completely obliterating any sign of blood . |
| 26 | The death of one 16-year-old under interrogation at a police station in January 1990 has yet to be properly investigated . |
| 27 | The perplexed driver took him to a police station — which then contacted Steve . |
| 28 | They said the sailors were detained after about 500 seamen brawled along Lisbon 's dockside , besieging a police station , smashing windows in shops and bars and overturning cars . |
| 29 | It is hard for those who live near a police Station , |
| 30 | But a car bomb is reported to have gone off in the Palestinian quarter of the city and a police station has been blown up ( the interior ministry says by an accidental explosion ) . |