Sentence examples for police containment from inspiring English sources

He could see the police containment positions — in rooms, on the roof and in the garden of neighbouring properties.

A case that will decide the legality of the police containment tactic of kettling is to be heard at the European court of human rights in Strasbourg later.

A local TV station, WUSA-9, said members of the Capitol police containment and emergency response team were "furious" and were "convinced they could have saved lives".

Jury No 7 Do you consider that it is established as likely that insufficient weight was given after 9.09pm to the fact that Mr Saunders was a member of what used to be called a special population group (now "vulnerable person") with regard to the nature, proximity and numbers in the police containment?

The jury found that after Saunders fired his shotgun at 9.09pm, police gave insufficient weight to the fact that he was a member of a so-called special population group – vulnerable through alcohol – in deciding "the nature, proximity and numbers in the police containment positions".

Finally, they must consider whether, after Saunders shot out his kitchen window at 9.09pm that night "insufficient weight" was given to him being a "special population group" – someone vulnerable through alcohol or drugs – "with regard to the nature, proximity and numbers of the police containment".

Ketting, which the police called "containment", was only used "wisely, on the best of information and carefully", he said, saying it had been necessary to prevent further disorder.

A spokesperson for the Metropolitan police said: "Containment and dispersal is a tactic available to us, but it is only used as a tactic of last resort to prevent an actual or imminent breach of the peace.

The Bank of England protesters were held in place from 12.30 pm until 7.00 pm using a series of cordons, a process the police called "containment" and the media called "kettling"; it consisted of corralling protesters into small spaces ("kettles"), then keeping them there until the police wanted to disperse them.

So despite some recognised advances in policing and containment recently, this lack of empirical knowledge is thwarting the professionals who seek to tackle the problem.

She and the rest of the protesters were steered by police into a containment pen, built of interlocking metal barricades, on the east side of Eighth.