Sentence examples for catch crooks from inspiring English sources

The police mission in the 19th century was not to catch crooks, but to prevent crime and keep order.

Like most law enforcement officers in this country, McClaskey has been trained to catch crooks, not to stop submerged suicide bombers.

All sorts of police forces get into difficulty for all sorts of reasons - an obsession with speed cameras, a badly handled murder case or casual data retention which offends the civil liberties lobby but doesn't catch crooks.

While the industry wanted to help the authorities to "catch crooks" and prevent mass terrorist attacks, he said there needed to be serious debate about the privacy implications of the proposals.

The president noted that the government already has the power to use such subpoenas without a judge's consent to catch "crooked doctors" in health care fraud cases and other investigations.

Catches crooks by "information".

"Catching crooks" was not such a purpose, he said.

Catching crooks is a matter of luck.

Tsiskaridze dismissed the notion that he was involved in any way with the crime: "If you like detective stories, then you know that he who shouts loudest to catch the crook is the crook".

Everyone will now have a gold standard for what to do and how to do it in order to have the best chance to catch the crooks.

As Mr Zondo found, pub brawls quickly become fatal.Too rarely do the police catch the crooks: it was typical that no witnesses in the busy shebeen would talk about Mr Zondo's death.