Sentences with phrase «police cordon»

A police cordon refers to an area that is cordoned off with barriers or tape by the police to prevent people from entering or leaving. It is done for safety or investigation purposes during emergencies or crime scenes. Full definition
Virginia State Police cordon off an area around the site where a car ran into.
Riot police cordon off areas at Singapore's Race Course Road on Sunday to maintain order following a riot Sunday in the Little India neighborhood.
Two bulls briefly escaped an urban slaughterhouse and had a quiet moment grazing a neatly mowed lawn near an apartment complex before police cordoned them off and they were recaptured.
The police cordon was later lifted and people were allowed to return to their homes.
At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, police cordoned off sections of terminal as up to 3,000 demonstrators chanted, «No hate, no fear, refugees are welcome here.»
As the police cordoned off the area,...
Police cordoned off the scene as they investigated but later stood down the incident, which was a false alarm.
Police cordoned off the scene, preventing him from seeing the white SUV that had pulverized a line of torso - thick trees before landing upside down in a culvert across the street from his home.
I was wondering - I guess, straying a little from the precise legal question, towards the pragmatic - but in the example of (football match / whatever) crowd control, would the police contain / kettle peaceable fans with violent hooligans for a long time (indeed, for any more than an initial moment to establish the police cordon)?
Police cordoned off a Cicero residential neighborhood Saturday morning to keep protesters away from a fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle.
Police cordoned off the street with crime scene tape as officers surrounded and searched the house.
Late on the evening of July 2, 1925, police cordoned off the Closerie des Lilas, a Paris café, after an intellectual altercation.
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By way of guidance for future police operations, the Court stated that, had the police authorities determined effective exclusion zones were necessary and rational steps taken to create and enforce them (as in Knowlton where the police cordoned off areas in front of a hotel entrance to protect Premier Kosygin of the USSR during his 1971 visit to Edmonton), the result would have been different.
Both appellants (Austin and Saxby) claimed damages for distress and also aggravated and exemplary damages, at common law in the tort of false imprisonment and under the Human Rights Act 1998, s 7 for alleged unlawful detention, contrary to their Art 5 Convention rights, essentially arguing that they should have been released from the police cordon much earlier than they were.
Unfortunately, a number of people who were not demonstrators — including Geoffrey Saxby, who had been in London on business for his employers, and not to demonstrate — were caught up in the events and the police cordon.
Tyra Hemans, a 19 - year - old senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, sobs as she holds signs honoring slain teachers and friends near the police cordon around the school in Parkland Fla., Feb. 15, 2018.
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