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A detective-sergeant was sent at once to look at the abandoned car, discover if the widow was owed any money and get a full description of the man who had left her room without notice.
Poem About Never Growing Up Ryan McDermott 2010
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"She immediately became upset and tearful at the mention of the re-investigation" as it brought back bitter memories from a dozen years earlier, says Michael Britton, the detective-sergeant in charge of the case.
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"She immediately became upset and tearful at the mention of the re-investigation" as it brought back bitter memories from a dozen years earlier, says Michael Britton, the detective-sergeant in charge of the case.
The Gene Police Gautam Naik 2008
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Her husband, Jerome, a detective-sergeant with the Closter Police Department in the small Bergen County community where they made their home, picked up much of the slack.
Body of Knowledge Steve Giegerich 2001
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On Thursday morning Supt George Mason, who was a detective-sergeant at the time of the murder, testifited that
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Two of the policemen, a detective-sergeant and a sergeant, were arrested while on duty at the Izingolweni police station about 2km from the massacre site.
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Pietersburg for selling a court docket, two constables and a member of the public in the Free State for stealing dagga seized by the police and selling it at the police station, and a Cape Town detective-sergeant for selling engine clearances.
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This Canadian connection brought him to the Toronto Police and after 30 years of distinguished service as a detective in homicide, as a detective-sergeant, as a superintendent in internal affairs and then in public affairs, he was promoted to Chief of Police in 1989.
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A detective-sergeant attached to the Murder and Robbery Unit at Vanderbijlpark at the time of the Eikenhof shootings on
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That made him think of something, and he said to Nangi, 'That detective-sergeant, Tomi Yazawa, told me of a supposed threat on my life from the Red Army.'
The White Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1990
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