The person in charge of a police force.
a report from the new police chief
Example sentencesExamples
- A brilliant safecracker plays an elaborate game of cat and mouse with a shrewd police chief.
- She was praised by senior police chiefs for her quick thinking in helping the children, then aged two years and nine months.
- He stripped the police chief of his badge.
- Police chiefs point out that an enthusiastic drive to turn around performance has put the force on course for further steady improvement.
- Police chiefs reported overtime payments during the operation had added some £7 million to their budget.
- The police chief received the report that an infant boy had been found abandoned.
- Police chiefs were meeting last night to discuss the possibility of sending specialist sniffer dogs to the area.
- The local police chief can't help her because there's no evidence.
- The alliance called the meeting to present their crime-fighting proposals to the city's mayor and police chief.
- Police chiefs are investigating whether community support officers can be deployed between 10pm and 2am for the first time to boost officer numbers on the streets of the city.