patrolman

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The patrolman is there to take a report.

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A police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty instead of detection or supervision.

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noun

A police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty instead of detection or supervision.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for patrolman.

noun

A police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty instead of detection or supervision.

Example sentences

The patrolman is there to take a report.

The goal of a robotic soldier or police patrolman would only be to disarm and detain.

This happened to my dad with an Indiana State Highway patrolman on the toll road on the way to Chicago.

What would a college degree bring to the table for a regular beat cop/patrolman?

A patrolman finally broke in through a window into a second-story bedroom.

This chubby jolly patrolman was so delighted to help despite communication barrier, he went out of his way to walk me towards the rental shop.

A highway patrolman stopped, checked to make sure no one was injured, congratulated us on being lucky, and encouraged us to be careful out there.

That's a bit much for a patrolman to deal with.

A patrolman would've been more than sufficient for this.

How is a patrolman lying about a helping himself?

From the article: > It used to be said — correctly — that the patrolman on the beat on any American police force was the last perfect tyranny.

I was not allowed indoors; a patrolman came to the door to collect the criminal complaint and the evidence; I handed them to him.

Quote examples

When we parked, a sheriff's deputy--not a state highway patrolman--adopted a position near our car, and he was making eye contact with people near us and shaking his head "no".

If you're a patrolman then a car chase is probably one of the more exciting things you'll do, and it's a scenario that comes to mind when you first think of "this is what police do".

Even then it was illegal to warn motorists about speed traps, but the AA advised its members to stop if a patrolman failed to salute, and the driver would then be given information about "road conditions" ahead.

The state where, as a teenager, a highway patrolman bragged to me that he pulled a guy over and arrested him because "he was Mexican and looked at me wrong." Oh, and that guy was on the school board.