police constable

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

People who work for the police service
beadle
bobby
cadet
chief constable
cop
fed
FLO
G-man
Garda
gendarme
outrider
patrolman
police
police constable
police officer
policeman
policewoman
superintendent
Supt
WPC

Examples from literature

And accordingly, orders were given to the constable. 
In ten minutes the two constables returned, having performed their mission. 
Mr. Eaton sent for the constable, who advised him first to admonish him, etc., and if he could not, by the power of a master, reform him, then he should complain to the magistrate. 
You call a constable—an' I'll give you the nickel when you come back with him, he said. 

constable | American Dictionary

constable
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkɑn·stə·bəl/
(in the US) an official in a town or village having some of the responsibilities of a police officer

Examples of constable

constable
The gentry still controlled local courts and constables, useful for muscling their newly-mobile labor force back into the fields.
Around 300 police and special constables were on the scene, including thirty-six mounted police who charged and dispersed the crowd.
Both magistrates had 25 constables and 100 + 120 patrolmen each.
These include churchwardens' and constables' accounts, parish registers, wills and inventories, and tax lists.
Masters and constables arbitrated at a rate of about ten times that of commoners.
The special constables appointed to police industrial disputes were certainly not neutral.
The principal form this took was in the promotion of a system of 'special constables'.
She found the prince and the constable more than willing to come to an agreement.
Delegations of the civic authorities were present, accompanied by musicians, mace-bearers and constables.
After the presentation of the champions, assisted by servants and constables, the bulls were brought into the square.
Constable et al. (1998) formalized a large portion of finite automata theory and synthesized a provably correct algorithm for state minimization.
They also served as constables, oversees of the poor, even as churchwardens.
On being refused, he ordered the constables to break down the door, which they did.
Unfortunately, evidence relating to village constables is limited.
Starting at the top of the political world, we first find the high-status burgesses, determined by their holding judicial office as master or constable.
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