provincial police
Britishnoun
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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
The friend ran away and left Sanit to pay off the debt, then his wife tried to take out a loan to help and got scammed, said provincial police chief Pallop Araemlah.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 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
The officer found himself in face of a situation which he could not gauge; and it would never do for a provincial police official to attract notice in remote St. Petersburg.
From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Gibbon, Perceval
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