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"The industry is growing, molding and adjusting," said Lieutenant-Colonel Miguel Calderon, subprefect of the police division in charge of licensing private security.

From Reuters • Apr. 25, 2023

"We needed to start from the beginning again," says Antoinette Uwimana, subprefect for the Kibungo region.

From Time Magazine Archive

In those days a deputy would call on the prefect of police with his hat in his hand, while today the subprefect meets the deputy at the railroad station and carries his bag.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Francois Coulet, General Charles de Gaulle's civil administrator for Normandy, fired subprefect Pierre Rochet, collaborationist chief of police of Bayeux, bitter-end patriots cheered.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sub′prēfecture, the office or jurisdiction of a subprefect.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various