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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The chief’s death leaves the village at least temporarily without a staffed police force.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The arresting officer, William West, was a Union Army veteran, a black man a few years on the police force.
    — Peggy Noonan april 6, wsj.com, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Brookside more recently built a monstrous police force from scratch to churn fines and fees.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 6 Dec. 2022
  • My sister married a guy, Larry Seaver, that was on the police force in Huntsville, Alabama.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The nation’s largest police force first acquired the technology in 2020.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Large numbers of police forces with shields and visors fanned out on the streets, and parts of Bergen’s city center were cordoned off because of the violence.
    — Tia Goldenberg, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The 43-year-old man was not a student or employee at the university, according to the school's police force.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The Town of Herndon is a part of Fairfax County, just outside the nation's capital, but the town maintains its own police force.
    — Fox News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • In 2020, the Oakland school board voted to eliminate its campus police force amid national protests over the death of George Floyd.
    — Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Kansas City remains the only city in Missouri that does not have local control of its police force.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2024

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