Police-force Sentence Examples

The police force and fire companies in the larger cities are organized on a military basis, and are sometimes used for military purposes.

She wrote a cover story about how the police force is sitting around on their thumbs while the poor widow's little twin darlings remain missing.

The police force of each municipality, or rather of each of 66 police districts, is maintained and controlled by the insular government; justice in each municipality is also administered by the insular government; the building, maintenance and repair of public roads are under the management of a board of three road supervisors in each of the seven insular election districts; and matters pertaining to education are for the most part under the insular commissioner of education and a school board of three members elected biennially in each municipality; nearly all other local affairs are within the jurisdiction of the mayor and municipal council.

The mounted police force of the republic is also organized on a military basis.

There is a police force composed of Europeans, Indian Sikhs and Chinese; and a strong military garrison.

Since then law and order have been maintained without difficulty by a small mixed police force of Punjabis and Malays.

In 1901 the total strength of the civil police force was about 145,000 men, maintained at a total cost of about 2,200,000.

In fact, they were a police force as well as an army.

Order was maintained by a mounted native police force.

The police force is another well-trained and successful service.

The police force is controlled by the government.

The police force is an efficient and well-organized body of 3000 men headed by a European commissioner of police.

In 1737 he had been appointed postmaster at Philadelphia, and about the same time he organized the first police force and fire company in the colonies; in 1749, after he had written Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania, he and twenty-three other citizens of Philadelphia formed themselves into an association for the purpose of establishing an academy, which was opened in 1751, was chartered in 1753, and eventually became the University of Pennsylvania; in 1727 he organized a debating club, the " Junto," in Philadelphia, and later he was one of the founders of the American Philosophical Society (1743; incorporated 1780); he took the lead in the organization of a militia force, and in the paving of the city streets, improved the method of street lighting, and assisted in the founding of a city hospital (1751); in brief, he gave the impulse to nearly every measure or project for the welfare and prosperity of Philadelphia undertaken in his day.

A small police force of natives has been formed.

He was taken from the Federal service in Washington to New York City by a reform mayor and put in charge of the police, because he had shown both physical and moral courage in fighting corruption of all sorts; and the New York police force at that time was thoroughly tainted with corruption, not in its rank and file, but among its superior officers, who used the power in their hands to extort money bribes chiefly from saloonkeepers, liquor-dealers, gamblers and prostitutes.

A small police force continued to occupy the district until April 1881, but, ignoring the wishes of the Bechuana and the recommendations of Sir Bartle Frere (then high commissioner), the home government refused to take the country under British protection.

Many Sikhs are also to be found in the native regiments of east and central Africa and of Hyderabad in the Deccan, and they compose a great part of the police force in the treaty ports of China.

A police force is similarly organized and controlled by a second enactment.

The strength of this military police force was fixed at 4400 men with 2562 horses, and Baker Pasha (General Valentine Baker) was entrusted with its formation, with the title of inspectorgeneral.

Order is maintained by a purely native police force.

The country was flooded with spies, and a special Russian police force was created, the expenses being charged to the Finnish treasury.

This gives the national executive absolute control of all administrative matters in every part of the republic. The police force also is a national organization under the immediate control of the minister of interior, and the public prosecutor in every department is a representative of the national government.

The establishment of a systematic police force was of slow growth in England, and came into effect long after its creation abroad.

Acts of 1839 and 1840 permitted the formation by the justices of a paid county police force.

Action in this case was optional, but after an interval of fifteen years the Police Act of 1856 made the rule compulsory, it being found that an efficient police force throughout England and Wales was necessary for the more effectual prevention and detection of crime, the suppression of vagrancy and the maintenance of good order.

The aim and object of the police force remain the same as when first created, but its functions have been varied and extended in scope and intention.

The total police force of England and Wales in 1908 was 30,376, almost equally divided between counties and boroughs; that of Scotland numbered 5575.

Police duties are carried out under the direction of the royal police presidency, the executive police force comprising a police colonel, with, besides commissaries of criminal investigations, captains, lieutenants, acting-lieutenants, sergeant-majors and a large body of constables (schutzmanner).

As the peaceful results of British rule developed, and the old feuds between the Mhairs and their Rajput neighbours died out, the Mhair battalion was transformed into a police force.

The payments which the county council have to make in substitution for the local grants formerly made out of Imperial funds include payments for or towards the remuneration of the teachers in poorlaw schools and public vaccinators; school fees paid for children sent from a workhouse to a public elementary school; half of the salaries of the medical officer of health and the inspector of nuisances of district councils; the remuneration of registrars for births and deaths; the maintenance of pauper lunatics; half of the cost of the pay and clothing of the police of the county, and of each borough maintaining a separate police force.

In such a case, while the general expenditure in respect of the entire police force is defrayed by the county at large, the local expenditure, i.e.

Under the act of 1882 every municipal borough might have its own separate police force.

As has already been stated when dealing with county councils, boroughs having a population of less than io,000 according to the census of 1881 can no longer have a separate police force.

A regular police force was also established and a gaol built in the Bazaar.'

Order is maintained by a special police force.

Dublin has a separate metropolitan police force.

The police force of each mudiria is independently organized under the control of the mudirs.

The elevator door opened to reveal the massive form of Travis, one of Jenn's spies on the local police force.

He began to doodle, listing the names she was calling not only him, but the entire, inept, Parkside police force.

The two were eventually amalgamated in 1946 to form the Peterborough Combined Police Force.

Our police force are quite approachable at the moment.

Europol, a para-military police force with full diplomatic immunity, would no doubt be introduced.

He quotes Colquhoun's plan for a professionally paid police force - a novel idea in those days to stop pilferage.

Police to recruit transsexuals A police force is planning to recruit transsexuals to promote its equal opportunities policy.

In February 1905, France had violated this treaty by demanding control of the Sultan's army and police force without consulting Germany.

We have a police force and a court system to apply the laws equally to all.

No such system of laws controls relations among nations, no significant world police force exists, and the world court system is very weak.

In February 1905, France had violated this treaty by demanding control of the Sultan 's army and police force without consulting Germany.

There must be accountability between the officers of our police force for there to be trust.

Reality show concepts run the gamut, with the latest series featuring WWE wrestler Trish Stratus and a host of other celebs as they serve on the Muncie, IN police force.

Reno 911 is a show on Comedy Central that mocks and "reinacts" a typical police force.

Another riot was held that night in which tear gas and police force was used to break it up.

However, the sturdy, hardwearing Doc Marten style was soon picked up by other sectors of society, such as the police force.

She's a detective with the police force.

The uniforms worn by each police force differ depending on the branch for which they serve.

In fact, today they've grown to be Italy's most professional police force.

One police force known as the Guardia di Finanza, was originally put in place to deal with financial felonies.

This police force may be as small as one person known as a Vigile.

This included setting up the milice, an adjunct police force which had the primary mission of tracking down and arresting the rebel maquis who were still resisting the German occupation with the help of the British.

There is also an armed and mounted police force of 870 Europeans.