Sentence examples for term police from inspiring English sources

The term "police power" connotes the time-tested conceptional limit of public encroachment upon private interests.

The meaning of the term police has changed over the last 5 centuries.

The term "police state" as represented by Germany under National Socialism and the former Soviet Union under communism suggests the opposite of a democratic state.

There appear to be no threats of punishment — the very term "police" is used only once, as a warning when David refuses to attend school like other children; no police officers ever appear.

Sophie Khan, who specialises in representing children in custody, said where there was no alternative but to hold a child in the short term, police should grant bail or arrange "secure detention" overnight.

The term "police state" was once brushed off by mainstream intellectuals as the hyperbole of paranoids.

The infrastructure of long-term police surveillance of leftwing and far-right campaign groups has remained in place ever since – and continues today.

"What they gain in short-term tax revenue they are losing in long-term police costs, emergency room costs and work-force readiness costs in terms of the Monday morning effect".

But while social media is a potent tool to stem violence, it is merely reactive, and cannot replace economic development in crime-ridden neighbourhoods, or a long-term police presence to build community trust, say experts.

While there is understandable outrage over revelations that a long-term police agent infiltrated a non-violent green activist group which attempted to close a Nottingham power station, this scandal is nothing compared with what went on during Ulster's "dirty war".

The new rules say that officials in civilian prisons (or county jails or juvenile-detention facilities or short-term police lock-ups) must determine on a case-by-case basis where to house a trans inmate — in a male facility or a female one, and in what kind of rooming arrangement — and that the decision must take into account "the individual's own perception of their vulnerability".