state police
Example Sentences
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Operations targeting Indians are often staffed by Indian nationals who themselves were lured into working in the scam compounds, said Mohanty, the Karnataka state police official.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
Delta state police have rejected claims circulating online that the Alue-Do festival in Ozoro was a "rape festival".
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026
Snyder had previously ruled the “No Vigilantes Act” could take effect because it did not exempt state police, a decision the Justice Department appealed to the 9th Circuit.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026
On Wednesday she ordered state police and prison agencies to cancel all agreements with federal immigration authorities.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
Created in the nineteenth century as a volunteer citizen militia to fight American Indians on the frontier and, later, Mexicans along the border, the Rangers had evolved into a kind of state police force.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.