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"I hope that our case will highlight failings within the constabulary and the chief constable will ensure that this never happens again."
From BBC • Nov. 16, 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
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
Scotland's chief inspector of constabulary has called for a strategic whole system review of mental health services.
From BBC • Dec. 11, 2023
Before the days of the rural police, he organized a voluntary system of constabulary in his desperately disturbed parish of Lyng.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles
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