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Definition of Police constable
1. Noun. A police officer of the lowest rank.
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Generic synonyms: Officer, Police Officer, Policeman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Police Constable
Literary usage of Police constable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Palmer's Index to "The Times" NewspaperT (1890)
"Paterson, by an Encounter with nn — Police-Constable J. Pavitt and Wife, from
their Clothes taking Fire from Boiling Tar, the Woman Burnt to ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"In general the only weapon carried about the person of a police constable is the
familiar wooden staff of office of the peace officer, and that not in the ..."
3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1895)
"Under these provisions, peace officers are usually a sheriff of a county, or his
under sheriff or deputy, or a constable, marshal, police constable, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The increased area over which a police constable as compared with the old parish
constable has jurisdiction facilitates both arrests and ..."
5. A Selection of Cases Illustrative of English Criminal Law by Courtney Stanhope Kenny (1901)
"Neither the appellant nor his daughter made any nquiry of the police constable
as to whether he was or was not jn duty, but they took it for granted that he ..."
6. Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the Courts in by Edward William Cox (1902)
"When that document is looked at, it seems to me perfectly clear that the conditions
under which the police constable served in the metropolitan police force ..."
7. The Scots Digest of the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland: And by John Condie Stewart Sandeman (1905)
"About half- past ten o'clock a police constable walked up to the door of an inn
... Police—Constable—Gratuity to Children of Deceased.—Under the Police Act, ..."
8. Hints on Advocacy: Conduct of Cases Civil and Criminal. Classes of Witnesses by Richard Harris (1884)
"THE police constable. Every one who conducts a defence in a criminal trial has
to deal with police testimony, and as a class of evidence it figures more ..."
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