Sentence examples for criminal arm from inspiring English sources

The Chicago Police Department, which has worked closely with the Fire Department to investigate the blaze, will be in charge of the criminal arm of the investigation, he said.

CALLED STATE CRIMINAL ARM According to investigators, militias in Rio de Janeiro function like a criminal offshoot of the state, extorting protection money from residents, operating unlicensed public transportation, charging commissions on real estate deals, meting out punishment to those who cross them and, most alarming, carrying out extrajudicial killings.

This dissolved the wall between the intelligence and criminal arms of an investigation.

For 20 years, other court decisions and Justice Department policy had erected a wall between the department's intelligence and criminal arms.

Pine is a former soldier turned night manager of luxury hotels who goes undercover for the British intelligence services to infiltrate a criminal arms-dealing enterprise.

But the judges today said that the passage of the legislation, the USA Patriot Act, ensured that there is no wall between officials from the intelligence and criminal arms of the Justice Department.

Most were the targets of direct threats from criminal armed groups; many saw their loved ones murdered or disappeared, or were forced to pay unaffordable "cuotas" (gang taxes) because they lived in a certain area.

"The increasing reach of criminal armed groups, often amounting to de facto control over territory and people, has surpassed the capacity of governments in the region to respond," the report said.

The two basic points of purpose of The Arms Trade Treaty are to reduce human suffering and to reduce illicit weapons to the criminal arms trade.

Some experts worry that arming police officers all the time will only lead to an escalation of violence as criminals arm themselves in response.

No nation on earth has an interest in seeing this band of criminals arm itself with nuclear weapons and missiles.