How to Use field officer in a Sentence

field officer

noun
  • Glazier knows the community well, having worked in Thomasville Heights as a young field officer in the mid-1990s.
    Christian Boone, ajc, 14 June 2018
  • In recent years, with the loose dog problem so bad in southern Dallas, field officers checked out every complaint.
    Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2020
  • The chief added that Sayago serves as a mentor, possesses a positive attitude and work ethnic and serves on the field officer training committee.
    Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Delany, a champion of black nationalism, went on to become the highest-ranking black field officer during the Civil War.
    Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Haspel drafted a cable approving the destruction that her boss ultimately sent to field officers, who fed the tapes into a shredding machine.
    Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2018
  • Haspel took a posting as field officer in Ethiopia, an unglamorous assignment, but one that taught her how to run operations against agents for the Soviet Union, then a benefactor of the Ethiopian government.
    Shane Harris and Karoun Demirjian, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2018
  • Every year, Work Camp partners with Arlington code compliance field officers to identify homes that have been issued a notice of violation by the city.
    Charlene Santiago, star-telegram, 13 June 2018
  • According to Seri Worden, a task force member and a senior field officer for the National Trust, other cities have bolstered preservation incentive packages with tax credits or abatements.
    Caitlin McCabe, Philly.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • On Saturday, while organizers at their field officers supervised phone-banking and volunteer trainings, Knapp and Saling went knocking on doors.
    Chloe Angyal, Marie Claire, 12 Dec. 2019
  • While an internal investigation takes place, Salgado has been reassigned to the department’s Alternate Response Section, in which staffers field non-emergency calls and determine whether to send field officers or make a police report over the phone.
    Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas, chicagotribune.com, 6 Nov. 2019
  • To reduce euthanasia rates, management discouraged field officers from impounding strays.
    Alicia Parlapiano, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2019

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