How to Use police force in a Sentence

police force

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  • He joined the local police force.
  • Pifer, who is still on the police force, was not charged in the killing.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Marc Davis, 35, who has been on the police force nine years, was charged with one count of fraud.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Richardson has served on the police force for 28 years.
    — I.c. Murrell, Arkansas Online, 15 July 2022
  • Victor Herrera, the head of the police force for Guayaquil, was mulling whether to give the order to breach.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2024
  • George, who had been with the police force for 10 years at the time of the shooting, could not be reached for comment.
    — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The court has no police force of its own to enforce warrants.
    — Mike Corder and Raf Casert, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The change to public safety is a big upset given the high crime rates in the city and the shrinking police force.
    — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The city north of Seattle has a small staff that includes a police force and public works crew.
    — David A. Lieb, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2022
  • The Montgomery police force has faced such tragedy before.
    — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The flow of arms enables the gangs to have superior firepower to the police forces.
    — Mitchell McCluskey, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
  • His father was a 37-year veteran of the city’s police force.
    — Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 12 July 2022
  • One of the slain officers was a veteran of the police force, with at least 22 years on the job, Meyer said.
    — CNN, 15 June 2022
  • For Pakistan’s military and police forces, the last year was the bloodiest in a decade.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Mendez was killed three days shy of celebrating his 23 years as a member of the police force.
    — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 14 Oct. 2023
  • The way the nation’s biggest police force communicates has evolved over the past 200 years.
    — Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Members of the police force were able to join Saturday's march of their own accord.
    — Mike Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2022
  • On Monday, a special police force was expected to take over the search.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The police force operates outside of the city’s control, leaving much of its work opaque.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2023
  • And more than half the police force in Memphis, a majority Black city, is Black.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
  • He is retired from the police force but is still haunted by the man who got away: the Long Island serial killer.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 14 July 2023
  • The six men charged were not serving in the police force while participating in the WhatsApp chat.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
  • At stake is the chance to lead the country’s third-largest local police force at a crucial time in its history.
    — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
  • Perdomo, a canine handler, has been on the police force for about five years.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Potter, a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center police force, resigned in the wake of Wright's death.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Victims of a city that had seen 40 racially motivated bombs over the last two decades, of a police force that had solved none of them.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The vast majority of that sum — almost $28 million — came from claims against the city's police force and jail.
    — Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Liu agreed, telling the Mercury News that increased funding for the police force played a key role in helping the homicide rate drop to zero.
    — Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Homewood’s budget anticipates some of the revenue will be used to increase the police force.
    — Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 10 Oct. 2024
  • With an all-Tesla police force, Crook believes incidents involving more than one party will require more officers to respond with more cars, putting strain on resources, all because of the tiny back seat.
    — Erin Marquis / Jalopnik, Quartz, 16 Oct. 2024

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