police
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Bridges wrote that he had a California Department of Motor Vehicles print-out affixed to the back of his vehicle and asked if she was a police officer or DMV employee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Rakesh Maria, a former Mumbai police commissioner, has cited Bishnoi as an example of a new generation of gangsters who are more technologically adept and internationally connected than their predecessors.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Sperisen was Guatemala's civil police chief from July 2004 to March 2007.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
A police officer had allegedly previously warned Rezmives and his son that it was illegal to ride an e-motorcycle on city streets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
The police take Meadowlark and me to their station, to wait for Mom to come and get us.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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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
The statewide agency, which mainly polices traffic violations on freeways and oversees state property, has sworn in more than 600 new officers this year — a total that many departments would envy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2025
As Uncle Sam polices the two Americas, and John Bull the seas of the world, so the Mikado undertakes to police the sea lanes of the Orient.
From The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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
“It is great to see…the fans being policed according to their behavior, not an outdated reputation,” said chief constable Mark Roberts, head of the UKFPU.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 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
Residents of El Campesino El Mirador, a railside hamlet nestled at the foot of a mountain, tell this story: El Campesino El Mirador was policed by officers from nearby Nogales.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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Their demands vary, but they are united in wanting to make their often marginalised voices heard, sometimes even with radical methods in the face of heavy-handed policing.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
“Certainly they share some similar values when it comes to policing, especially on the prosecutorial side. Gascón was, I think it’s fair to say, lenient with some of his prosecutorial decisions,” Saggau said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Macron also asked for the introduction of “new policing tactics on the ground as quickly as possible” to put an end to the violence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
She urged Prime Minister Andy Burnham to give larger local authorities and mayors more of a role in providing better education, health, youth services and policing for children.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
The new age of scientific policing was built on numbers.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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