Sentence examples for police terms from inspiring English sources

This is, in police terms, the "kettle".

Like many in the African community, he has long overstayed his visa and become, in Chinese police terms, a Triple-Illegal Person — illegal to enter, illegal to reside, and illegal to work.

Jeff showed the reporter his training manual, which had a glossary of police terms and a short description of the work of an auxiliary police officer: "Crime results from the DESIRE to commit an unlawful act along with the BELIEF that the OPPORTUNITY to do so exists.

In 2008, with the FBI involved in frequent firefights, the bureau began taking a harder look at these engagements, seeking input from the military to make sure, in police terms, that each time an agent fired it was a "good shoot," former FBI officials said.

It is a form of the supposed conundrum that was being floated in American political discussions after September 11th: neoconservatives accused liberals and traditionalists of thinking in police terms when they should have been thinking in military terms.

Using a police term for ambulance, the officer repeatedly asked, "Where is the bus?" according to both emergency officials and someone who monitored the conversation over the scanner as it unfolded.

Here we reported how police had recorded that the group had set up a stall at the festival and were selling what police termed "political publications and merchandise of a XLW anti-capitalist nature".

In what the police termed a bias-related incident in 1988, a group of Hispanic men, some wielding baseball bats and iron rods, beat several worshipers outside an Islamic mosque, which was then at Queens Boulevard and 50th Street.

The sudden move came after the discovery of what the police termed a terrorist master plan ranging from the kidnapping of diplomats and Government officials to the bombing of buildings.

I know about newspaper and business deadlines, but wasn't "deadline" or "dead line" a special police term in New York City? A. The "dead line" was the invention of Thomas F. Byrnes, who announced it on March 12 , 1880 the day he became New York City's chief of detectives.

Its less-than-memorable name inspired by the old police term "all points bulletin," APBNews quickly distinguished itself on the national media landscape, securing both industry accolades and big name employees, including two Pulitzer Prize winners– Sydney Schanberg Sydney Schanberg, a former reporter for The New York Times, and J. Robert Port J. Robert Port from the Associated Press.