Sentence examples for competent cops from inspiring English sources
Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are barely competent cops working undercover at a high school, blasting away at clichés with goofy abandon.
Much of it has to do with Friel, who manages to imbue that old dual personality cliche (hyper-competent cop, complete mess at home) with a sense of scratchy, intense vulnerability.
Kate seems a competent if sentimental cop, and for some reason her banal, clichéd interrogations don't incite the plain-spoken Amish to drive her off with pitchforks.
But now many judicial experts on both left and right hold a vision of children as competent legal decision-makers, reared on cop shows and Court TV and casually familiar with their due-process rights and how to demand them.
Kojak was a TV cop who appeared marginally competent, thus throwing suspect off their guard.
Ted Danson and Patrick Wilson are the head cops this time, both more competent than all the others, and the roster of villains who overwhelm the cast never fail to be creepy and hilarious.
Officers complain that prosecutors can throw around the "Brady cop" designation based on their own hunches, without relying on competent evidence, and without giving the officer a chance to defend himself from the Brady label.
— Are competent and honest.
