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  • noun Plural form of policeperson.

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Examples

  • That's why we have policepersons, jails, and prisons – at least, until further notice from the administration.

    Napolitano: No indication of wider plot in botched airline attack 2009

  • Like attack dogs running amuck they need pulling back into line and being directed back towards what they are SUPPOSED to do as policepersons of the United Kingdom.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • Suddenly white American males are surrounded by feminists, multiculturalists, P.C. policepersons, affirmative-action employers, rap artists, Native Americans, Japanese tycoons, Islamic fundamentalists and Third World dictators, all of them saying the same thing: You've been a bad boy.

    White Male Paranoia 2008

  • Better you got off your backside and did a full shift with one of our beat policepersons, before you going spouting off.

    Tarantara: A Policeman's Lot is not an Happy One 2007

  • Supervisor Mirkarimi has been trying mightily to get just a few, maybe two, policepersons actually walking a beat in their various districts and getting to know the people they are supposedly protecting, but the resistance from the police department has been astonishing.

    Archive 2006-10-01 sfmike 2006

  • Supervisor Mirkarimi has been trying mightily to get just a few, maybe two, policepersons actually walking a beat in their various districts and getting to know the people they are supposedly protecting, but the resistance from the police department has been astonishing.

    Goodbye to Miss Tina 2 sfmike 2006

  • Do people REALLY believe Bloomberg simply "doesn't give a damn" about fire- and policepersons making a reasonable wage?

    FDNY & NYPD: Mayor Bloomberg Doesn't Give A Damn Nathaniel Livingston 2004

  • As a result valuable police time is currently being wasted on bringing corrupt policepersons to book.

    THE STATEMENT BY PETER MARAIS 1997

  • The provincial average is 1.7 policepersons per 1000 residents.

    ANC CONCERN AT UNDERPOLICING OF POOR COMMUNITIES W/CAPE 1996

  • The provincial average is 1.7 policepersons per 1000 residents.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

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