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Examples
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“I am a true-blue, as you may see, and a warrant-officer already,” he said, with his old way of smiling at himself.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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Several security policeman tortured her, mostly a warrant-officer "Lotta" who almost suffocated her several times with a large plastic bag over her head while her hands were held by another policeman.
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A former detective warrant-officer, Steyn said he decided to kill the men after it became known that three policemen were killed in the shootout.
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Elizabeth, Gerhardus Johannes Lotz, a Port Elizabeth security police warrant-officer, Wybrand du Toit (correct), then a major at security police headquarters in Pretoria, Jacobus Kok, then a securiy police captain also based in Pretoria, and Marthinus Ras, then a warrant-officer based at Vlakplaas, the security police unit housed on a farm east of Pretoria.
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He retired from the South African Police in 1991 as a warrant-officer and became a private investigator working for insurance companies and political parties.
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A warrant-officer took the constable - named by Popcru - home more than two hours before he was supposed to have gone off duty.
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A police warrant-officer stationed at Empangeni has been arrested in connection with the deaths of two African National
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The 120 candidates in our class were known as WOCs for "warrant-officer candidates."
Chickenhawk Mason, Robert 1983
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On May 11, 1965, we got our warrant-officer bars and our silver wings.
Chickenhawk Mason, Robert 1983
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There are electronic-technician warrants, supply warrants, and warrant-officer pilots, among many other specialties.
Chickenhawk Mason, Robert 1983
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