Sentence examples for basic police work from inspiring English sources

"Then it was just a matter of basic police work, setting up surveillance," he said.

So much technological overreach, yet counterterrorism officials still couldn't do basic police work and catch the Boston bombers before the marathon by following up on warnings from the Russians.

HO CHI MINH CITY — "It's basic police work," said Michael Brosowski describing his activities with the Blue Dragon Children's Foundation, a nongovernmental agency that rescues children working in sweatshops in Vietnam.

As young as 16 and trained for only four weeks, the "plastic police", as detractors call them, cannot make arrests, carry out stop-and-searches (except, oddly, on potential terrorists) or do much other basic police work.

Baltimore commanders say that their officers are engaged — making major arrests, conducting raids and taking weapons off the streets — but that basic police work is now more labor intensive.

But here in Nuevo León State, prosecutors, detectives, human rights workers and families are poring over cases together and in several instances cracking them, overcoming the thick walls of mistrust between civilians and the authorities to do the basic police work that is so often missing in this country, leaving countless crimes unsolved and unpunished.

Relatives and friends of the Waltham murder victims — Brendan Mess, 25, Erik Weissman, 31, and Raphael Teken, 37 — have long contended that the authorities were too quick to write off the murders as the unfortunate outcome of a low-level drug dispute and that they failed to do basic policing work that could have solved the case.

It is a basic, fundamental tool of police work in the whole country.

"If China is going to develop the rule of law, the police are going to have to become better at doing basic, nonpolitical, everyday, investigative police work," said Murray Scot Tanner, a senior political scientist with the RAND Corporation with an expertise in criminal justice in China.

And then police work intervened.

The police work for them.