How to Use police force in a Sentence

police force

noun

• 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
• 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 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
• 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 | [e-mail], 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 | [e-mail], al, 6 Dec. 2022
• Longtime residents point to the Charles Stuart case in 1989 as the low point in trust between the community and the police force.
  — Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2024
• Bard said this will be a small, publicly accountable police force.
  — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 30 Sep. 2022
• Back then, there were just three Black officers in the department, but Black officers now make up more than half of the police force, Doyle said.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 11 Aug. 2024
• The mayor placed Cody on administrative leave from the Marion police force that same day, and on Oct. 2, Cody resigned.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024