constable definition

constable means a police officer, a British Transport Police officer, an officer of HM Revenue and Customs and any other official with a power of arrest by virtue of his or her office. It does not include any other investigators, e.g. government departments, local authority or Serious Fraud Office even if they have power to search premises or are required by section 66(9) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) to have regard to the PACE Codes of Practice;
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constable means a police officer below the rank of corporal;
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constable means any member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, the Rural Police (district constables), any military district constable and any parish special constable;
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Examples of constable in a sentence

  • Arnold Toynbee, The Western Question in Greece and Turkey (Constable 1322) 253–313.

  • A proposal for a revised Joint Independent Ethics Committee will be considered by the Mayor and Chief Constable.

  • On 16 October 2013, Mr Roulston emailed HMICS via the whatdotheyknow website1, making reference to an investigation by HMICS into the former CSJPB’s governance arrangements for the post of Assistant Chief Constable.

  • Constable is still working as a consultant to casework and will respond with qualified answers).

  • Ms Higgins made contemporaneous, credible and consistent reports of having been sexually assaulted to Ms Brown, Mr Payne, Mr Dillaway, Major Irvine, Mr O’Connor, Federal Agents Cleaves and Thelning, Detective Senior Constable Harman and Ms Cripps; and has never wavered in respect of the essential parts of those reports since.


More Definitions of constable

constable means the Chief Constable and a constable appointed under section 5(1) or (2) of the Police Act 1993;
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constable means a warranted Officer of the Police.
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constable means a police officer of the rank of constable of any grade and includes a recruit constable, auxiliary constable and community support officer;
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constable means an individual holding the office of constable who is serving as a constable of the Police Service and includes—
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constable means any member of the Service, and includes a recruit constable; “court” means the Grand Court;
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constable means an individual elected under A.R.S. § 22-102 and any deputy constable appointed, employed, or authorized by the county board of supervisors.
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constable means a Member classified and paid as a Constable.
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