Meaning of police work | Babel Free

Definitions

Work performed by police; the investigation of criminal activities.

uncountable

Examples

“The complement will consist of 290 persons, and these cruisers should prove valuable additions to our service, especially in the line of police-work—the peace time duty of most of our ships not assigned for manœuvres.”

“Many who are unfamiliar with real police work little realize the extent to which police science has developed.”

“All the ordinary developments in telecommunications can be applied to police work.”

“White officers were more likely to select skilled or other protective service positions (such as fireman) as a preferred employment at the time they entered police work.”

“Many puzzling aspects of police work fall into place when one ceases to look at it as primarily concerned with law enforcement and crime control, and only incidentally and and often incongruously concerned with an infinite variety of other matters.”

“As a result, there exists little or no transparency in police work at the station house level.”

“That's not a bad motto for police work overall, he thought. A vain and arbitrary search for a needle in a haystack, that's exactly what it always seemed to be like.”

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