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policeman

[puh-lees-muhn] / pəˈlis mən /


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Afterwards, Gandhi presided over waves of civil disobedience protests, encouraging supporters of the Indian National Congress to manufacture contraband salt, boycott foreign goods, and face down phalanxes of lathi-wielding policemen.

From BBC

Two senior officials were transferred and six policemen suspended.

From BBC

In a later video taken from the same scene we see the body covered in a cloth and carried towards a group of policemen standing by the university building.

From BBC

There is a policeman who directs traffic in front of the school, and as soon as he saw the Vespa, he started laughing.

From The Wall Street Journal

While Amine's murdered elder brother, Brahim, was known to have become involved with drugs gangs, investigators say that was not true of Mehdi, who had ambitions to become a policeman.

From BBC