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was policing
noun
A civil force granted the legal authority for law enforcement and maintaining public order.
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It wasn't enabling, it was policing.
Sussex police later said it was policing the EDO demonstrations in "an objective and neutral way".
I imagined him on the frontline; now he was policing standup gigs in Hampshire.
The lapses have raised questions about who, if anyone, was policing the chief investment office and whether regulators were sufficiently independent.
On 17 April 1984, PC Yvonne Fletcher was shot from inside the Libyan embassy as anti-Gaddafi demonstrators she was policing came under fire.
Bone's father said she had never expressed any fears about her job, but complained how boring it was policing the annual party conferences in Manchester.
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What matters is policing.
"The question becomes, who is policing that?
Why is policing devolution so important?
"Nobody's policing this.
The Everton fans were policing themselves.
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