Sentence examples for failure of police from inspiring English sources

This was a failure of police leadership.

The failure of police control was the main reason for the disaster, he said.

He concluded that the main cause was overcrowding, and the main reason was the failure of police control.

"It certainly substantiates the comments made, not only by my clients but by others as well, about the failure of police officers to take action," he said.

The Rotherham case highlights the collective failure of police, social services and the local council to act despite repeated complaints from the girls.

The security arrangements and failure of police to shoot dead any of the attackers led to heavy criticism of the authorities.

To an audience still shell-shocked by the damage to their homes and livelihoods wrought by the riots and failure of policing last August, my theme was the urgent need for the police, particularly in urban communities, to rediscover a service ethos that had been sacrificed on the altar of so-called management efficiency over the past 15 years.

Barring a calamitous failure of policing or on the transport network, problems are unlikely to be left at his door.

The review, published by the independent police advisors LGBT Advisory Group, condemned the 1993 Gay Slayer police investigation as a "serious failure of policing".

Theresa May has described the failures of police and council agencies in Rotherham to deal with child sex abuse as a complete dereliction of duty.

The judge Wright remarked on the past failures of police and social services to bring the Hussains and their associates to justice between 1987 and 2003, when their crimes were committed.