Watch Committee

noun

1. history a local government committee composed of magistrates and representatives of the county borough council responsible for the efficiency of the local police force

Example Sentences

The Warrington Watch Committee, says a news item, have before them an unusual number of applications for pawnbrokers' licences.

From Project Gutenberg

What I vote is, that our set form ourselves into a sort of Watch Committee to attend to any little matters of this sort.

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