police officer

Example Sentences

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Burrows is a former police officer who was unopposed for the post, which is regarded as one of the toughest in Northern Ireland politics.

From BBC

Prosecutors and defense attorneys had agreed, in a motion filed by Delcid’s attorney, not to disclose to jurors that Solorio was an off-duty police officer, since it was not considered a factor in the crime.

From Los Angeles Times

The 1869 Chicago home of the police officer Richard Bellinger was built of wood—a common practice at the time, which is part of the reason the city went spectacularly ablaze two years later.

From The Wall Street Journal

He served for three years as a military police officer, including a stint guarding the Da Nang Air Base with the South Vietnamese army.

From The Wall Street Journal

The cautious approach stands in contrast to the way these same companies responded to the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis in 2020.

From The Wall Street Journal