narcotics officer
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of narcotics officer
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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Anderson raised $231,000 this period, with $371,000 on hand, and Reeves — a veteran, former narcotics officer and an insurance salesman — hauled in $268,000, with nearly $390,000 on hand.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2022
"After issuing a ticket to a narcotics officer with the Houma Police Department, Petitioner’s supervisors began subjecting all tickets and reports to additional scrutiny," Cavalier wrote in his petition.
From Fox News ● Oct. 14, 2021
The miniseries implies that Prince Beasley, the narcotics officer who used Stoeckley as an informant and recognized her from MacDonald’s description of his alleged attackers, somehow convinced Stoeckley that she’d been on the scene.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2020
The narcotics officer stood on a windswept ridge near the Oregon border and surveyed the fields cut into the hills below, a landscape resembling a lost piece of wine country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2017
Sun Zhongwei, a former narcotics officer turned lawyer, dismissed the suggestion that the dealers were officially tolerated.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2015
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