Sentences with phrase «senior police constables»

For centuries, our senior police constables have made operational decisions not at the behest of government and the political whims of the day, but based on their professional view of how best to uphold the law and keep the peace, dealing with everything from petty theft to major terrorist plots.

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Then prime minister Margaret Thatcher, who it has emerged was briefed on the «close to deceitful» behaviour of senior South Yorkshire police officers, wanted the chief constable to resign but did not act.

The calls — from senior figures including Sir Hugh Orde, former chief constable of the police service of Northern Ireland and former head of Europol Max - Peter Ratzel — were reinforced on Saturday night by Dominic Grieve, the Tory chair of the Commons intelligence and security committee.