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"Our hearts, thoughts and prayers go out to our colleagues in the constabulary, local communities and the people who have worked extremely hard in very difficult circumstances."
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
Det Supt Haskins said while the teenagers - who were unknown to them - tried to evade the police, they used "all the powers and the force of the constabulary" to catch them.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2024
Andy Cooke, chief inspector of constabulary, said the current police funding formula was "an anachronism".
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2024
The custom dates back more than 150 years, but was stopped in 1909 by the local constabulary, which saw the "straw bears" as a form of "cadging", or begging, for rewards.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024
The headquarters of the constabulary are at Enniskillen.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
Miller told the BBC that constabularies had been taking steps to improve wellbeing.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
The Guardian approached the remaining police forces in England and Wales, as well as constabularies in Scotland and Northern Ireland, none of whom are currently investigating allegations, fresh or historical, into Heath.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 6, 2015
Police commissioners were invented by the current government with the admirable motive of making constabularies accountable to their local communities.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2014
This is a really savage thing to say, that we can't trust the leadership of our constabularies to measure their own performance.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2013
These laws appear based upon the idea of common good, and to have been supported by the "posse comitatus" before standing armies or state constabularies were formed.
From Landholding in England by Joseph Fisher
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