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provincial police

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noun

  1. (in Canada) the police force of a province, esp Ontario or Quebec

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The allegations were first made public by KwaZulu-Natal provincial police boss Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi last Sunday.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2025

Quebec provincial police divers and Canadian Forces members took part in the search for the missing adult.

From Seattle Times Jun. 3, 2023

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

With the aid of the provincial police, we were able to trace you to Dalehurst Grange.

From The Grell Mystery by Froest, Frank

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