bureau
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McDonnell has taken steps to streamline the LAPD’s operations, including folding the department’s four homicide bureaus into the Robbery-Homicide Division and updating the department’s patrol plan to account for the department being down fewer officers.
From Los Angeles Times
The bureau wants to narrow how it enforces the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, a 1974 law.
From MarketWatch
Slovakia's parliament voted to abolish the whistleblower protection bureau on December 9 and replace it with a new body under the authority of the government.
From Barron's
The Philippine immigration bureau told the BBC that they were in the country from 1 November to 28 November.
From BBC
In a Feb. 14 memo addressed to the leadership of the State Department’s Africa bureau, Adler asked the administration to release money to keep people alive.
From Salon
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