Sentence examples for patrolman from inspiring English sources

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patrolman

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A police officer, especially a junior one who does patrol instead of detection or supervising other policemen.

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No one had a problem with figuring out what reasonable was; as youngsters, most of us tested the limit and were told that it meant "never pass a highway patrolman", usually by the Highway Patrol shortly after receiving our licences.The 55mph limit at night was for our own protection; in the old days, anything over that speed would be dangerous.

A patrolman on the beat did not necessarily reduce the crime rate; but the elderly woman at the bus stop, who felt safer, thought he did.

Meanwhile, a vehicle travelling at 120mph (200kph) will cover a further 176 feet (54 metres) for every second wasted.That is allegedly what happened last August when a Lexus ES 350 driven by an off-duty Californian highway patrolman accelerated out of control in San Diego county.

That is a lower standard than the "beyond a reasonable doubt" used in criminal cases.Sometimes the patrolman gets things wrong.

"SEE that trailer?" H.R. Blake, a young patrolman with the Nitro police department, points to a standard 53-foot shipping container on the back of a tractor-trailer.

While Ferguson police have said Brown pushed the officer as the patrolman was trying to exit his car and then struggled with him over his gun, Johnson has said the officer was the aggressor.

Lack of a cuppa from No 10 Dave Bromley, an AA patrolman, reveals on the motoring organisation's website that he had a call to rescue a car that was jammed on a rising bollard – in Downing Street.

The video shows the patrolman handcuffing the victim as he lies on the ground, before walking back to a spot near where he opened fire.

St Joseph patrolman Zackary Craft appeared in Kansas City rapper Josh Smith's video "Before This Bomb Blows Up (Racism Goes Both Ways)." Patrolman Craft can be seen reaching for his gun and holding a "cops lives matter" sign in the 3 27 minute video.

Whenever they arrest somebody they'll have to go to the gates and summon a regular patrolman, there being no place of detention inside the grounds.

The patrolman, a laconic Texan — "tight-lipped and cool," Youngblood called him — pulled up within a few feet of the armored car's rear bumper, and kept his car there as the two vehicles, with the Presidential limousine not many feet ahead of them, roared along the expressway and then swung right onto an exit ramp.

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