Sentence examples for police commandant from inspiring English sources

His father retired as a police commandant in Paris.

This was embarrassing, as Obote was about to promote Amin to chief of staff, so the police commandant, Inspector-General Oryema, took no action.

"We have not been able to see in all the vehicles to know if they have corpses in them, but we have not found any more corpses lying outside," Reto Hambacher, police commandant for the Canton of Uri, said.

But the pivotal role, that of the police commandant who helps and occasionally hinders Regina Lambert (Thandie Newton) in her attempt to discover who killed her shady husband, went to Christine Boisson, a stunning actress who came to attention in Michelangelo Antonioni's 1982 "Identification of a Woman".

Gaynes is probably best known for his film and television work in the 1980s – as an adoptive father on Punky Brewster, doddering police commandant Eric Lassard in seven Police Academy films, and a seasoned soap opera star besotted with Dustin Hoffman's alter ego in 1984's Tootsie.

Carefully picking his way along a narrow alleyway and stepping over a broken sewage pipe in Guinea-Bissau, police commandant Augusto Nhanga points up at the metal grill above him.

There, they fraternised with a squad of military police led by Commandant Reyes (Leonor Varela), a lady with some tantalising history with Coulson.

Commandant Border Military Police (BMP) and acting District Deputy Officer Revenue (DDOR) Hameed Rehmani said they were busy helping people vacate homes and reach safer places.

Herbert Kappler, the commander of the German security police in the city, and Kurt Mälzer, the armed forces commandant in Rome, decided that a reprisal was needed after conferring with Adolf Hitler -- they settled on the execution of 10 Italians for each of the Germans killed.

Ordered by Hitler and led by Herbert Kappler, the commandant of the Rome security police, the action was conducted in secret and the caves sealed.

When we tried to get to the hangar in which the prisoners were held, we were stopped by the commandant and Prijedor's chief of police, Simo Drjlaca, cocking their guns.