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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
"Molly Bury's behaviour fell way below what the constabulary expects and what the public would expect of a serving police officer."
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2025
Couzens, 51, joined Kent Police as a special constable in 2002 and became an officer with the Civil Nuclear constabulary in 2011.
From BBC ● Feb. 29, 2024
Scotland's chief inspector of constabulary has called for a strategic whole system review of mental health services.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2023
When disturbances in one province would become formidable, constabulary from provinces would be hurried thither, thus denuding the latter provinces of proper police protection.
From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount
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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