What's the difference between police and precinct?

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.'"

Precinct


Definition:

  • (n.) The limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority; -- often in the plural; as, the precincts of a state.
  • (n.) A district within certain boundaries; a minor territorial or jurisdictional division; as, an election precinct; a school precinct.
  • (n.) A parish or prescribed territory attached to a church, and taxed for its support.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, the Iowa Democratic party decided to shift one delegate from Sanders to Clinton on the night and did not notify precinct secretary J Pablo Silva that they had done so.
  • (2) Raeisha Williams with the Minneapolis NAACP told the AP protesters plan to stay at the precinct until the names of the officers involved are released.
  • (3) But you could also help swing an entire precinct for Hillary’s opponent with a protest vote or by staying home out of frustration.
  • (4) Police and protesters clash during Jamar Clark protests as NAACP plans response Read more Tents, fire pits and stools have been set up outside the Fourth Precinct, in the heart of a predominantly black section of the city and just blocks from where Jamar Clark was shot early last Sunday after police responded to an assault complaint.
  • (5) Criminal complaints to the police in the ARTC area were not reduced as compared to surrounding precincts.
  • (6) We weren’t trying to satisfy the demands of that day.” It has hosted Britain’s first multiplex cinema, first peace pagoda and almost certainly its first public infinity pool Rather than create a centre from buildings like other new towns such as Cumbernauld with its hulking concrete shopping precinct, CMK was designed as a centre of broad boulevards edged in expensive Cornish granite and lined with London plane trees.
  • (7) Trump and his allies have repeatedly suggested that voter fraud took place in cities such as Philadelphia and Chicago in 2012, citing as evidence the fact that Mitt Romney failed to win a single vote in 59 almost wholly black precincts of Philadelphia’s 1,687 total.
  • (8) Marian Dalton (@crazyjane13) Emmo: We will provide $46m for Sunshine Coast health learning precinct.
  • (9) Some of the candidates have struggled to find enough precinct captains to get their voters out but Paul's campaign has released details of its network, saying it has 1,480 precinct captains.
  • (10) In Grinnell Ward 1, the precinct where elite liberal arts college Grinnell College is located, 19 delegates were awarded to Bernie Sanders and seven were awarded to Hillary Clinton on caucus night.
  • (11) The results of its investigation suggests a continuum between Guantánamo interrogation rooms and Chicago police precincts.
  • (12) By 2.30am, when all precincts had reported, Trump had a remarkable 45.9% of the vote.
  • (13) As Silva explained it, the Iowa Democratic party’s formula for apportioning delegates left no method of dealing with one delegate in the precinct.
  • (14) But those hopes have been dashed with 23,221 of 24,491 precincts in the state reporting votes.
  • (15) They can't even be photographed in the precincts of the building in which the court is held, although this law has been broken on a daily basis ever since security cameras were first installed.
  • (16) Cluster sampling helps to compensate for the inability to sample every precinct in the state, but the errors of each precinct add together to form a larger state error.
  • (17) He was forced to shout over the din of several hundred people from 12 precincts in the school cafeteria, where all but the loudest speakers were drowned out.
  • (18) Five protesters were injured in the Monday night shooting at the Minneapolis police department’s 4th Precinct, where protesters have been conducting a sit-in since the shooting of 24-year-old Jamar Clark on 15 November.
  • (19) Protesters also continue to occupy the front door and space surrounding the Minneapolis police fourth precinct building.
  • (20) Similarly, John McCain failed to win votes in Chicago and Atlanta precincts in 2008.