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Continuing his evidence on Wednesday, Beggs said: "All of the interactions with the police and VC from my constabulary were borne of mental illness."
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood also stated she had lost confidence in the chief constable, following an update on a "damning" review from the chief inspector of constabulary and what she called a "failure of leadership".
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026
He added: "I believe the school tried to use the police to close down legitimate inquiries, and for some reason the constabulary played along."
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025
“In the meantime, I would like to assure residents and criminals alike that the constabulary will be operating as normal, keeping our residents safe, and preventing and detecting crime.”
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2024
"But say, there 're some constabulary there; do you know how many?"
From Caybigan by James Hopper
"A small percentage of the FOI requests the constabularies received last year were returned with some of the raw data still attached to the information that we sent," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2023
"Changes need to be made across the board in all constabularies nationally," said Mr Spinks.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2022
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
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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