How to Use security police in a Sentence

security police

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• In early April, security police captured three alleged saboteurs near the town of Bobruisk and shot them in the knees.
  — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2022
• The video then shows security police banging on the door and entering his office and apartment.
  — Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2019
• The security police then ordered the deportation of Mrs. Carlson and her four children, ages 3 to 13, giving them a month to leave.
  — New York Times, 30 Aug. 2020
• And 90-year old Cardinal Zen, who was arrested in May by national-security police, is about to be put on trial.
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
• The clash between the heavily armed fighters and the security police turned the city into a free-fire zone, with residents cowering in cars and supermarkets.
  — Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2019
• He was also criticized for trying to rebrand rather than abolish the Stasi security police.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2023
• He was often followed by plain clothes security police.
  — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• Li was detained by local security police on charges of spreading rumors and forced to sign a document disavowing his statements.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2020
• His car, however, was damaged and the Swedish security police arranged a replacement.
  — Bloomberg.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• The guard heard a pop consistent with the removing of clothing sensors and confronted Quinones, who sparked a Vipertek taser at him, police said; mall security police physically obtained the taser out of his right hand, police added.
  — chicagotribune.com, 18 Mar. 2022
• The city’s June 4th Museum, which had already been forced to close, was raided in September by national security police who carried away boxes of exhibits.
  — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 4 June 2022
• The next month, the security police astride the Jordanian border in the dusty southern town of Daraa ignited the tinder by torturing children who had scrawled anti-Assad graffiti on walls.
  — Charles Glass, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• National security police in Hong Kong arrested seven people linked to pro-democracy news site Stand News, prompting it to close.
  — WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021
• Members of Kurdish security police check identity cards at a checkpoint on the northern edge of Qamishli, a northeastern Syrian city by the border with Turkey.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2018
• Yuen, a former member of the Canto-pop boy band E-kids, was arrested by national security police over the suspicion of sedition and money laundering.
  — Vivienne Chow, Variety, 15 Feb. 2022
• National-security police rounded up almost all of Hong Kong’s opposition politicians who had sought to run for the city’s legislative council elections in 2020.
  — Selina Cheng, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
• Norway’s security police have warned of the rise of a small but politically extreme and potentially violent group called the Nordic Resistance Movement, which uses the Tyr rune in its branding.
  — Richard Martyn-Hemphill, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
• The Chinese doctor who was reprimanded by security police for warning fellow doctors about the initial coronavirus outbreak died of the illness.
  — USA Today, 21 Apr. 2020
• Hong Kong’s new national security police unit on Thursday arrested five people accused of working on ‘seditious publications’ in the form of children’s books about sheep, a report said.
  — Fox News, 22 July 2021
• The group, people familiar with the matter said, included Andy Li, an activist who had been arrested in Hong Kong two weeks ago during a swoop by a new national-security police unit that also raided the office of a newspaper.
  — Joyu Wang, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2020
• The prince has also overhauled the state security police, recruiting former Egyptian officers to hound dissidents.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• Tikhanovskaya, 38, a former English teacher, jumped into the race last May, after security police arrested her husband Sergei Tikhanovsky, thwarting his presidential run.
  — Vivienne Walt, Time, 24 May 2021
• Security Chief Chris Tang also warned on Tuesday that those who do not comply with national security police orders would face consequences.
  — Jessie Yeung and Eric Cheung, CNN, 7 Sep. 2021
• The family later learned that Simelane had been abducted and subjected to weeks of brutal torture by members of apartheid’s notorious security police.
  — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019
• Steinberg starkly recounts how the violence in rebellious Black townships turned inward, with armed gangs colliding in battles encouraged and inflamed by the security police.
  — Glenn Frankel, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
• In return for allowing a delay to the judicial reforms, Netanyahu has apparently agreed to let Ben-Gvir form a new national security police force, directly under his command.
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2023
• Hong Kong’s national-security police charged Mr. Lai on Dec. 11 with colluding with a foreign country or external elements.
  — Natasha Khan, WSJ, 14 May 2021
• National-security police recently arrested several of her courtroom backers, charging two of them with sedition for their public displays of support for Ms. Chow.
  — Wenxin Fan and Elaine Yu, WSJ, 25 May 2022
• The latest arrests were made under existing antisedition laws that have been increasingly used by national-security police this year.
  — Newley Purnell, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
• Election hopefuls will undergo vetting by the national security police and a committee that oversees national security in the city.
  — Zen Soo and Ken Moritsugu, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Mar. 2021

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