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The chief constable held a lunch at police headquarters to offer the family a formal apology.
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Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
Led by Northern Ireland's chief constable, Jon Boutcher, the investigation has taken 1,000 witness statements and amassed 50,000 pages of evidence, and has cost £40 million.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 17 Mar. 2024
The deputy chief constable, Alan Speirs, repeated Police Scotland’s previous apology to the couple’s loved ones.
—Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 31 May 2024
Also on the case is Woman Police Officer Gladys Moss (Anjana Vasan), who in addition to following her eminently logical hunches has to endure demeaning treatment from her fellow officer (Hugh Skinner) and chief constable (Paul Chahidi), both of them prats of the first order.
—Ty Burr, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
Andy Marsh, chief constable of Avon and Somerset, expressed concern Monday that the scenes may be repeated across other cities as the government continues to try to expand police powers.
—Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2021
The suspects were killed after exchanging fire with police outside the bank in Saanich, according to Dean Duthie, the chief constable of the Saanich Police Department.
—Sharif Paget, Amy Simonson and Laura James, CNN, 29 June 2022
Shaun Sawyer, chief constable for Devon and Cornwall police, told reporters that officers responding to multiple emergency calls at 6:11 p.m. arrived six minutes later at an address in Plymouth's Keyham neighborhood, where Davison had shot and killed a woman who lived there.
—BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2021
Such secrecy was the direct result of a direct royal entreaty from the king to the chief constable of Suffolk, an unparalleled usage, and some might even say abuse, of royal powers.
—Alexander Larman, Town & Country, 19 Jan. 2021
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Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
Led by Northern Ireland's chief constable, Jon Boutcher, the investigation has taken 1,000 witness statements and amassed 50,000 pages of evidence, and has cost £40 million.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 17 Mar. 2024
The deputy chief constable, Alan Speirs, repeated Police Scotland’s previous apology to the couple’s loved ones.
—Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 31 May 2024
Also on the case is Woman Police Officer Gladys Moss (Anjana Vasan), who in addition to following her eminently logical hunches has to endure demeaning treatment from her fellow officer (Hugh Skinner) and chief constable (Paul Chahidi), both of them prats of the first order.
—Ty Burr, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
Andy Marsh, chief constable of Avon and Somerset, expressed concern Monday that the scenes may be repeated across other cities as the government continues to try to expand police powers.
—Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2021
The suspects were killed after exchanging fire with police outside the bank in Saanich, according to Dean Duthie, the chief constable of the Saanich Police Department.
—Sharif Paget, Amy Simonson and Laura James, CNN, 29 June 2022
Shaun Sawyer, chief constable for Devon and Cornwall police, told reporters that officers responding to multiple emergency calls at 6:11 p.m. arrived six minutes later at an address in Plymouth's Keyham neighborhood, where Davison had shot and killed a woman who lived there.
—BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2021
Such secrecy was the direct result of a direct royal entreaty from the king to the chief constable of Suffolk, an unparalleled usage, and some might even say abuse, of royal powers.
—Alexander Larman, Town & Country, 19 Jan. 2021
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