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po·lice chief

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. captain, police captain, police chiefnoun

    a policeman in charge of a precinct

Wiktionary

  1. police chiefnoun

    The head or leader of a police department or constabulary of a local government.

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  1. police chief

    A police chief is the highest-ranking officer in a police department who is responsible for overseeing all operations, designing and implementing effective crime prevention strategies, managing staff, and liaising with the direct community or relevant governmental bodies. They ensure the department works efficiently to enforce laws and maintain public safety. Their authority and responsibilities can vary depending on the size and structure of the department or jurisdiction.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of police chief in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of police chief in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of police chief in a Sentence

  1. Maithripala Sirisena:

    The police chief said he will resign now.

  2. Joe Sutherland:

    Jasper Spires’re pretty distraught that Police Chief Lanier was released for a similar if not less deadly crime two days earlier, it led to a direct line to my nephew’s death.

  3. Mike Doyle:

    The central questions of the city’s two-year, million-dollar cover-up of the killings of Rhogena Nicholas and Dennis Tuttle remain unanswered: What happened, before and after the HPD murderous raid? the Nicholas family and public still need answers from the mayor and the police chief.

  4. James Murray:

    Obviously I'm aware that( former US Capitol Police Chief) Steve Sund testified not too long ago up there, and I'm also aware that one of the things he conveyed is that, you know, he would have preferred to have had more, more people, more resources, more fencing to be able to effectuate and push out his perimeter, had it been established to be an NSSE, that's one of the things you would have seen. You would have seen more people. You would have seen more perimeter fencing. You would have seen more resources.

  5. Marco Rubio:

    When they caught this person, they asked him, 'Why did you do this?' This person did not resist -- this person said, 'I did it because I pledged allegiance to ISIS. I am inspired by ISIS,' to his credit, the police chief of Philadelphia said this person did it because of ISIS.


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