Sentence examples for detain a suspect from inspiring English sources

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When we do detain a suspect, we interrogate them.

There was another raid on a hospital to detain a suspect last month.

They can make citizen's arrests but cannot investigate accusations of criminal activity or detain a suspect.

When the purpose is "to investigate or pre-emptively detain a suspect," at most a prosecutor is entitled to qualified immunity.

But a European arrest warrant, which enables a foreign force to detain a suspect, needs evidence strong enough to bring a criminal charge.

Ministers are also said to be considering restoring a power for the police to detain a suspect without charge for 28 days instead of the current 14 days.

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The authorities have detained a suspect in the assault.

The police said late Tuesday that they had detained a suspect, though he had not been charged.

Police in eastern France have detained a suspect after a car was driven at a group of soldiers this morning.

Nor could the interest in "preventing flight" be stretched, he wrote, to "justify, for instance, detaining a suspect who is 10 miles away, ready to board a plane".

In the weeks after Williams's death, police said they detained a suspect but released the man for lack of evidence.

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