noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chief constable
police constable
special constable
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
assistant
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For Don Dovaston, assistant chief constable of Derbyshire police, a series of schoolgirl murders made that mark run deeper.
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He was one of three applicants for the post of assistant chief constable .
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His appointment comes with next month's retirement of assistant chief constable Fred Smith.
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Fuss Mr Wilmot's six assistant chief constables are likely to join the boycott in November.
chief
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Merseyside's chief constable yesterday defended the handling of the arrest of a 12-year-old in the hunt for James's killers.
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Yet, according to the chief constable , in the same period calls for service have increased by 85 percent.
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The minister may also call for the retirement of a chief constable .
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It is virtually impossible for a Police Authority to obtain a report from a chief constable contrary to his wishes.
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The implementation of section 39 is an operational matter for the chief constable .
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The chief constable is responsible for other appointments and promotions.
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The county's chief constable , who heads a national committee on crime, says he hasn't the resources to cope.
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His appointment comes with next month's retirement of assistant chief constable Fred Smith.
special
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Too old to fight, he had served as a special constable during the war.
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Several people volunteered for being special constables but Tom remained silent.
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The home secretary, Kenneth Baker, launched a £4.5m campaign to recruit thousands more special constables .
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Seven other County Durham officers and a special constable have also been commended by the chief constable.
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Mr. Lloyd Our objective is that the number of special constables should equal about 20 percent. of the regular police force.
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The campaigns that we have been conducting are moving in that direction because special constables have a particularly valuable part to play.
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Every one else was virtually a special constable . ... The women were better.
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He became a special constable , a member of the local emergency committee.
uniformed
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They loomed up, two uniformed constables .
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There was a uniformed constable by the bed all the time, but David Evans was hanging about as an unofficial extra.
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P.C. Clifford and the other uniformed constable lent a hand in getting the stretcher with its heavy burden up the steps.
young
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A pleasant spoken young constable arrived at Riverview with a warrant and asked if he might look over the boat.
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The young constable and the landlord each grabbed a combatant and frogmarched them into the village street.
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Who knows why he attacked the young constable ?
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Meryl followed the young detective constable to the library door with a sick feeling in her stomach.
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The young constable had come round the side of the inn, ready to support Hewett.
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A young constable coughed with embarrassment.
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On more than one occasion I caught senior management using our symbolic disorder to dress down young constables .
■ NOUN
detective
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The victim, a detective constable , tried to arrest the accused.
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The detective constable who was supposed to be guarding him was out of the ward at the time chatting up some nurses.
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She harried the detective constable who was checking Christine Mills' alibis.
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Meryl followed the young detective constable to the library door with a sick feeling in her stomach.
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The door of the interview room swung open and a detective constable swaggered in.
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Uniformed men and Wycliffe's detective constables were questioning the very few people who actually lived in the street.
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A detective constable was working away in a corner.
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The three of them, with four detective constables , would set the ball rolling.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Before shaving, he rang his office and spoke to the woman police constable who acted as his secretary.
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But all Mrs Ullman found was the intimidating bulk of three police constables.
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I've already given their names to the constable in the library.
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I recognised the uniform of a police constable .
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Seven other County Durham officers and a special constable have also been commended by the chief constable.
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The constables were known to the certificate-holder personally.
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They stopped at the modern bungalow that was the home and office of the local police constable .
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Yet, according to the chief constable , in the same period calls for service have increased by 85 percent.