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Police work   /pəlˈis wərk/   Listen
Police work

noun
1.
The investigation of criminal activities.  Synonym: police investigation.






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"Police work" Quotes from Famous Books



... plane the work that he would, as it were, direct from the higher. The question was, who? Obviously it must be some one upon whose discretion absolute reliance could be placed. He must be highly skilled in police work, and have a reputation to enhance or lose as the result might decide. Suddenly a name occurred to him. A short time ago his friend the President had been telling him the inner story of a very intricate case which had involved a scandal ...
— The Mummy and Miss Nitocris - A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension • George Griffith

... knight. He had had misgivings a-plenty in bringing his gently-bred Provencal wife to this rough country. Often he had to be absent from dawn to moonrise, riding on some perilous expedition. He and his little force of men-at-arms and yeomen were doing police work on the Welsh border, and no one ever knew just when the turbulent chiefs of those mountains would ...
— Masters of the Guild • L. Lamprey

... is not easily accessible to illusions. He knew that a department is at the mercy of its subordinate officers, who have their own conceptions of loyalty. His career had begun in a tropical colony. He had liked his work there. It was police work. He had been very successful in tracking and breaking up certain nefarious secret societies amongst the natives. Then he took his long leave, and got married rather impulsively. It was a good match from a worldly point of view, but his wife formed an unfavourable opinion of the colonial climate ...
— The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale • Joseph Conrad



Words linked to "Police work" :   detection, detective work, sleuthing, roundup, investigating, investigation, surveillance, forensics, detecting



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