Sentence examples for preventative policing from inspiring English sources

"We want to be able to reassure people, we want to do preventative policing - it's far better if we can prevent crime and harm happening than simply sweeping up the mess after the event.

In a letter clarifying that statement in The Guardian-Journal of Claiborne Parish, Mr. Mills wrote that residents of high-crime neighborhoods had urged him to do something about numerous shootings, so he had developed a policy of "preventative policing," in which officers stop groups of young people walking in these neighborhoods, ask for identification "and possibly pat them down".

At the Floating Pool, beautifully designed by Jonathan Kirschenfeld with its dramatic and symbolically resonant views — Rikers Island in one direction, the Manhattan skyline in another — trouble has been minimal, a fact owing to the ennobling capacity of good architecture or, perhaps more realistically, to engaged, preventative policing.

"However, politicians and the public should be mindful of the fact that preventative policing is both resource-intensive and often very difficult to measure," he said.

He said: "A reduction on this scale poses a grave risk to policing in the West Midlands, with less resource available for the preventative policing that has consistently driven down recorded crime for the last 15 years.

In a statement early last year, the mayor's office praised such preventative policing.

Among other measures, Mr Calderón has proposed to unify the two main federal police forces, the federal preventative police and the federal investigative agency, to increase their effectiveness, and to enact judicial and penal reforms to improve the functioning of the justice system and to stiffen sentences.

Speaking on The View, he said the PSNI would be forced to become more of a reactive, rather than preventative, police service.

"It is likely to mean a service with virtually no preventative capability, neighbourhood policing would be eliminated in all but a small number of the most vulnerable neighbourhoods and as a service we would be primarily focused on emergency response policing and serious harm policing to tackle the most dangerous threats".

The preventative detention orders allows police to hold suspects without charge for a fortnight and George Brandis said that while no application had been made for control orders on any of the people detained in the raids, he is open to expanding them.

In Belarus, the campaign group says, President Alexander Lukashenko's government has increased the number of blocked websites and arrested some bloggers while inviting others to "preventative conversations" with the police during which they are pressured not to cover protests.