Top 1200 Police Work Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Unless you work in HR, it's not your responsibility to necessarily police and monitor workplace conversation.
The police who did our training said 'Happy Valley' is one of the only police programmes they can watch and not burst out laughing, saying, 'As if you'd do that.' They think it's really authentic.
What the media does to Trump is what they did the cops - say the police are really harmful, then later ask why people are so scared of the police. — © Greg Gutfeld
What the media does to Trump is what they did the cops - say the police are really harmful, then later ask why people are so scared of the police.
I want our police officers to have the resources and training they need to investigate hate crime fully, and to ensure we have neighborhood police teams that understand and reflect the communities they serve.
We're now going to develop the standards on transparency, data collection for police, but the whole goal is to fully integrate the police into the community because everybody has the same goals.
I know there are those in the community who, rather than have us invest more in policing, even for community policing, instead want us to disinvest in the police department. We need a police department. We are going to have a police department.
I just got the endorsement of the Fraternal Order of Police.We have endorsements from, I think, almost every police group, very - I mean, a large percentage of them in the United States.
In 1953, the idea of a single female police recruit to the New York City Police Department, let alone a handful, was big news.
I don't want to play police games. When you start playing police games, I take myself out of the equation.
Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.
If you ever watch police chases on, like, helicopter cams, they very quickly become nightmarish when you start to see the police coming in from the edge of the frame. I always find that terrifying.
I know what it's like to be afraid of the police. When you see a police officer, you don't immediately feel safe. You wonder what you've done wrong and what could happen to you.
You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property.
We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
There is a legitimate role for the police to keep the peace, but there should be a difference between a police response and a military response. — © Rand Paul
There is a legitimate role for the police to keep the peace, but there should be a difference between a police response and a military response.
Well, intuition isn't much help in police work. Facts are what we need.
I was still a recruit in the Boston Police Academy when I attended my first police funeral. It was September 28, 1970. I remember it still.
I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.
Here's what I learned as a mayor and a governor. The way you make communities safer and the way you make police safer is through community policing. You build the bonds between the community and the police force, build bonds of understanding, and then when people feel comfortable in their communities, that gap between the police and the communities they serve narrows. And when that gap narrows, it's safer for the communities and it's safer for the police.
A functioning police state needs no police.
The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.
A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence of police, thugs will gather into gangs.
I was 11 years old when I was initially brutalized by the police, just for horse-playing with my friends and not responding to the police in the way they wanted me to.
There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.
We think one of the priorities in Mississippi is not to do what some would suggest, which is to defund the police. Rather, we want to have an initiative to actually fund the police.
If you ask a young man from my team, 'Would you rather deal with police or with White?' they'll tell you 'police' every time.
After years of police work, officers often can't help but be influenced by the cynicism they feel.
I no longer believe that we can 'fix' the police, as though the police are anything other than a mirror reflecting back to us the true nature of our democracy.
What we have to ask is this: what can we morally expect of and allow to people whom we deploy to fulfill this or that social role :police officer, school teacher, physician? This may sometimes lead to difficult social decisions - e.g. should police be permitted to illegally import drugs as part of a sting operation? In the end, I think "common - that is, critical - morality" should determine the limits of the police role.
Poland didn't experience a groundbreaking moment in 1989. We didn't storm the secret police building. The squads of secret police, with all their political baggage, remained unscathed.
The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.
Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.
During the Umbrella Movement, the police force wasn't in control, and the police ignored the law and tried to use extreme force to hurt people.
If the police need more help to do their work, I will not hesitate in granting it to them.
Effective policing relies on the police having the confidence of the communities they serve, and this consultation gives the public an opportunity to contribute to the values and standards they expect of police officers.
The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.
We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.
No matter what the situation, I try to have fun. I get pulled over by the police, I'm like, 'Oh, this going to be the best arrest ever.' And I end up making friends with these police officers.
I think you have to be extremely strong to be in the police and I couldn't do that at all. I get nervous when a police car is driving past me when I'm in the car, pondering what they're doing or going to.
If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell. — © Nicholas Mosley
If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell.
It's so much more difficult to get police officers to testify against other police officers.
Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.
It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
I think a lot of police procedurals are very conventional. With the stuff I'm doing, I'm trying to approach the institution of the police in a different way.
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
My accident happened in what should have been one of the safest places to be: in a police station, at the hands of trained police officers. So more guns are not the answer.
I have a letter from a police inspector, retired after some 30 years in rural Derbyshire, alerting me to the potential impact of a total ban on hunting on relationships between the police and the community in rural areas - a particularly significant consideration in current circumstances. Is it, I ask myself, sensible to divert valuable police time to enforce a ban on hunting when they are under so much pressure from violent crime?
If the saying "the Temple Mount in our hands," is portrayed as incitement to the police, there's no need to change the saying, but the police.
Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.
Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact.... In Indianapolis they have come up with a most sensible, affordable approach to the problem. Policemen are assigned their police patrol cars for personal use after hours. They are encouraged to use the police car while taking the family shopping, to the movies, and everywhere one takes one's family. As a result, says the Police Chief's assistant, we may have as many as 400 cars on the street instead of 100 or so per shift. [And] the presence of the police car obviously indicates the proximity of policemen.
When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe. — © Mary Frances Berry
When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.
Why is it that the same people who have the least confidence in the police and the military are the most willing to allow only the police and the military to have guns?
The four BIAs in the area support it. Operational benefits include accessibility and a place for police officers to come and go when they're working. Everyone's clamoring for more police presence.
The nice thing about your police procedural as opposed to your classic murder mystery is that in a murder mystery you don't know who did it. Whereas in a police procedural you know, you know everything often and you're watching the police home in.
I have a former Baltimore City police officer's uniform and his robe and hood. He was the grand dragon, which means state leader. His day job, what paid his bills, he was a Baltimore City police officer, not an undercover officer in the Klan gathering intelligence, but a bona fide Klansmen on the Baltimore City police force.
We just were saying no more police brutality. And we had enough of police harassment in the Village and other places.
Instead of speaking about defunding the police, we should be advocating ways to create partnerships and promoting connectivity between communities and police officers.
I don't see white police officers slamming the heads of little white boys into police cars.
There has to be a readjustment of resources that is being diverted to police and policing as opposed to community health services, and there certainly has to be control over the police by the communities that they are supposed to protect and serve.
I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police.
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