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police

[puh-lees] / pəˈlis /


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The hearings scrutinised authorities that had interactions with Calocane in the years before the attacks, laying bare failures and missed opportunities by agencies, including the NHS and police.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Israeli authorities said a police investigation is under way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

After police officers had used megaphones to call on those gathered to desist from violence, they used water cannons and tear gas to temporarily disperse the crowd.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said 150 police officers were injured in the unrest.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

It was the same in the center room of the barracks: half a dozen guards or camp police always present.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Mills pointed to polices such as control areas for the number of short-term lets and an ongoing review of how key workers are allocated council housing.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

A Spotify spokeswoman said the company polices spam aggressively and has been removing content related to this attack for more than a year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

“Not all term polices have conversion features,” Harrison said.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 13, 2026

It polices remedies and the finality of convictions, not the enforceability of unconstitutional laws going forward.

From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2026

It is England that polices the Seven Seas, and America has reaped no small benefits from the self-imposed task, an aspect of the matter to which every thoughtful American is alive.

From The Crime Against Europe A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 by Roger Casement

At Google and Microsoft, employee discourse became disruptive enough that the companies policed internal message boards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Compliance would be policed for 10 years by an independent auditor chosen jointly by Meta and the states, and paid for by the company.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

It was the era of “Urban Cowboy” and purity was being policed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

And as the pit-lane speed limit is policed by the time taken to pass through a series of timing loops over a specific distance, that meant the drivers were wrongly penalised.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

“Before...before camp, my parents thought the PSFs were investigating them, which, you know, they were. They sent me up to my grandparents’ cabin to hide, and—you remember what I said about the Internet being policed?

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

There had been rumblings of frustration in criminal justice circles over policing, for which Mamdani has largely retained the status quo in New York.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

But it is not all down to policing, Zimbo said.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

As a result it has had to fund record amounts of overtime payments and take neighbourhood officers away from community policing duties to cope with the demand.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Mamdani also campaigned on a promise to change policing, including moving the role of responding to mental-health crises to a new department.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

But there is a puzzling gap between the scale of the changes in policing and the size of the effect on places like Brownsville and East New York.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell


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