provincial police
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The provincial police chief also alleged Mr Mchunu had ties to a controversial businessman who was "financially supporting" the minister's political career.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2025
A spokesman for provincial police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which neighbours Afghanistan, said that ammunition caught fire, "most probably due to an electric short-circuit".
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2023
Marcel Savard, a former deputy chief and 40-year veteran of the Sûreté du Québec, Quebec’s provincial police force, for which Gamache works in the books, said he appreciated the inspector’s relentlessness and humanity.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
Khan's party is in government in two of Islamabad's neighbouring provinces, Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkwa, and the provincial police forces are expected to be providing security to marchers.
From Reuters ● Oct. 28, 2022
So they got it into their heads I killed him, and tried to have the provincial police investigate.
From North of Fifty-Three by Fischer, Anton Otto
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