Sentence examples for functioning police from inspiring English sources

Nightfall, without electricity or a fully functioning police force, brings its own terrors.

With no functioning police force and the streets a battle zone, it could not be determined if the children had been caught in cross-fire or had been deliberately shot at by militia fighters, as Ayman's father suggested.

Security was required because Baghdad, like the rest of Iraq, remains an unsteady place without a functioning police force and without enough American troops to keep the streets safe.

But four days of interviews with residents and United Nations and local officials provide a picture of an anxious and violent city with weapons caches and a barely functioning police department.

I wonder if New York or any other big American city could survive for over two and a half years amid such political uncertainty without a functioning police force.

Obama promised, of course, to support Colombia in its struggle against the FARC, but also to stop the illegal flow of guns across the US border into Mexico, and to help the country build an independent judiciary and functioning police force with which to tackle its drug gangs.

They also make a mockery of any attempt to establish a functioning Palestinian police force.

British officials acknowledge that the Libyan government badly needs help to shore up its authority as an administration, including a functioning civil police and integrated army.

The country, without a functioning army, police force and government is vulnerable to internal violence and attack from foreign countries for the foreseeable future.

In the absence of a fully functioning Iraqi police force or national intelligence service, agencies like the Army's Criminal Investigative Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have taken on a larger role.

What would the "form follows function" police say?