Definition of Police commissioner

1. Noun. A civil commissioner appointed to supervise the duties and discipline of the police.

Generic synonyms: Commissioner

Lexicographical Neighbors of Police Commissioner

policate
police
police academy
police action
police baton
police beat
police beats
police blotter
police boat
police box
police boxes
police captain
police car
police cars
police chief
police commissioner (current term)
police constable
police court
police cruiser
police department
police departments
police detective
police dog
police dogs
police force
police forces
police headquarters
police investigation
police lieutenant
police line

Literary usage of Police commissioner

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1921)
"672) entitled "An act authorizing the police commissioner of the city of New York to rehear the charges upon which Meyer Pollack, formerly a patrolman in ..."

2. Theodore Roosevelt and His Time Shown in His Own Letters by Joseph Bucklin Bishop (1920)
"The Mayor then appointed him a police commissioner in a Board of four members, he to be the President of the Board. As this was a position in the line of ..."

3. Beethoven's Letters: A Critical Edition : with Explanatory Notes by Ludwig van Beethoven, Alfred Christlieb Kalischer, John South Shedlock (1909)
"... NOTE TO police commissioner UNGERMANN Herr v. Schindler naturally ought not to be mentioned in the presence of both persons, but probably I ought! ..."

4. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"Bureau of municipal research—Continual. and accounting methods of the Bureau of repairs and supplies; based upon Inquiry requested by police commissioner ..."

5. The Parliamentary Debates: Official Report by Northern Ireland Parliament. House of Commons (1898)
"The evidence of the police commissioner on the subject is :— "Aa regards Constable W., he had to be from brothel-keepers. I believe he is hopelessly ..."

6. American Police Systems by Raymond Blaine Fosdick (1920)
"the term of the mayor of New York is four years, while his police commissioner serves five years. Again in Detroit, until recently, the mayor was elected ..."

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