What's the difference between constabulary and police?

Constabulary


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to constables; consisting of constables.
  • (n.) The collective body of constables in any town, district, or country.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A report issued last Friday by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary revealed that only 2% of police staff across 37 forces had been trained in investigating cybercrime.
  • (2) That blockade has now been broken, thanks to good work by Transfield and their incident response team, and of course backed up by the Royal PNG constabulary,” Abbott said.
  • (3) As Alan Johnson came close today to accusing Scotland Yard of having misled him over the scandal, a leaked Home Office memo shows that the last government decided against calling in Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary after intense internal lobbying.
  • (4) The review of rape investigations by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and the Crown Prosecution Service follows high-profile cases such as the "Night Stalker", Delroy Grant, who raped and assaulted elderly victims over a 17-year period in London, Kent and Surrey.
  • (5) A spokesman for Hampshire police said: "Officers from Hampshire constabulary's specialist interview team are currently assisting with an investigation into a serious sexual assault of an English woman which is reported to have occurred in the Sharm el-Sheikh region of Egypt on March 6."
  • (6) The four panel members selected by the chair of the independent inquiry, Justice Lowell Goddard, are Drusila Sharpling, an inspector with Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary; Prof Alexis Jay, author of the report into the Rotherham child sex scandal; Ivor Frank, an expert in family and human rights law; and Malcolm Evans, chair of the United Nations subcommittee for the prevention of torture.
  • (7) Their report concluded: “The [Home Office] has insufficient information to determine how much further it can reduce funding without degrading services or when it may need to support individual forces.” They noted that the police watchdog HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) provides regular information on policing, checking and verifying data provided by forces through inspections.
  • (8) Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary has undertaken a comprehensive review of how all police forces operate stop and searches and we will learn from their findings."
  • (9) Excessive use of force by police has been key to undermining the historic principle of policing by consent in Britain, the report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary states.
  • (10) "We have made a complaint to Ofcom in respect of the unfair, naive and irresponsible reporting on the ITN 10 o'clock news yesterday evening," Avon & Somerset constabulary said in a statement.
  • (11) On the chief constable of Northern Ireland's last day in office, a damning new report has found that his predecessors in the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) could have prevented the murder of one of their own officers during the Troubles.
  • (12) As HMIC [the chief inspector of constabulary] has said, the frontline is being protected.
  • (13) Supt Dave Buckley of Norfolk police said: “We are assisting the National Crime Agency with their searches and while we believe we have recovered all the packages, should any member of the public find one, they are urged to contact Norfolk constabulary immediately on 101” This is not the first time a large quantity of illegal drugs has washed up on the shores of the UK and Ireland.
  • (14) The government is keen to move forward: this month’s consultation follows a Home Office-commissioned review by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary in March which found significant failings in the police response to victims of domestic abuse, including poor victim care and deficiencies in the collection of evidence.
  • (15) They include Tony Lake, who attended the Southall demonstration as an SPG sergeant, and later rose through the highest ranks of the constabulary, becoming the chief constable of Lincolnshire police.
  • (16) Deputy chief Constable Leicestershire Constabulary.
  • (17) The changes are being brought in after Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) found that 27% of stop and searches did not contain reasonable grounds for suspicion, meaning more than 250,000 of the 1m searches conducted last year could have been illegal.
  • (18) The statement – which was signed by four mosque leaders, Portsmouth city council’s chief executive David Williams and leader Donna Jones and Hampshire constabulary’s Supt Will Schofield and Ch Insp Alison Heydari – says the community is united in its condemnation of hatred, violence and racism and of Isis.
  • (19) Avon & Somerset constabulary has also complained to the media regulator, Ofcom, about what it claimed was the "unfair, naive and irresponsible reporting" of the case on ITV1's News at Ten last night.
  • (20) "We recommend that Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) should investigate the Metropolitan police service in respect of the treatment of PC Patrick and review the internal processes and procedures of the police for dealing with whistleblowers, in order to ensure that they are treated fairly and compassionately," the MPs' report said.

Police


Definition:

  • (n.) A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough.
  • (n.) That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.
  • (n.) The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws.
  • (n.) Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.
  • (n.) The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state / a camp as to cleanliness.
  • (v. t.) To keep in order by police.
  • (v. t.) To make clean; as, to police a camp.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
  • (2) There will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave on 18 June 1984 , the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced.
  • (3) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
  • (4) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
  • (5) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
  • (6) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (7) In Essex, police are putting on extra patrols during and after England's first match and placing domestic violence intelligence teams in police control rooms.
  • (8) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
  • (9) They were protecting the sit-in because they believed that, if they left, the police would follow them."
  • (10) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
  • (11) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
  • (12) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
  • (13) An official inquiry into the Rotherham abuse scandal blamed failings by Rotherham council and South Yorkshire police.
  • (14) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
  • (15) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
  • (16) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
  • (17) During the couple's 30-year marriage she had twice reported him to the police for grabbing her by the throat, before they divorced in 2005.
  • (18) There's a massive police station there, and they couldn't do anything.
  • (19) Hoare was subsequently interviewed under caution by the Metropolitan police.
  • (20) Another, discussing public attitudes towards the police, said: "I've lost count of [the number of] people who said: 'It's only cos you've got a uniform … if you didn't have the uniform on, I'd come and fuck you and this, that and the other … I hope your wife dies of cancer and your kids die of cancer.'"

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