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policing

[puh-lee-sing] / pəˈli sɪŋ /


NOUN
law enforcement
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“These tactics — if you call them that — are far and away out of touch with contemporary policing standards.”

From Los Angeles Times

Questioned whether Mahmood's response was a kick in the teeth, Morgan said she had made her position on the devolution of policing "clear" in her speech.

From BBC

Human rights and privacy campaigners have raised concerns, describing the announcement as "one of the most significant threats to civil liberties in the history of British policing".

From BBC

The home secretary has announced a blueprint for reforming what she called the "broken" policing model in England and Wales.

From BBC

And so policing conduct that they saw maybe 10 years ago, and would have found reprehensible then, could actually seem to be okay now with the bar so low.

From Salon