Below you will find example sentences with "metropolitan police". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Metropolitan Police in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: metropolitan
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 59
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 29.4 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 9 start, 9 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "metropolitan police" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 29.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as against the metropolitan police on behalf, by the metropolitan police and avon, officers, man and department stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with delhi police, police officers, police department, metropolitan area, metropolitan areas and metropolitan museum, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with metropolitan police
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
On Sunday morning the Metropolitan Police said a technical issue was impacting a number of police forces. (17 words)
A statement by Met Police read: "Metropolitan Police officers have arrested Daniel Khalife, who escaped from HMP Wandsworth on Wednesday. (20 words)
Baroness Louise Casey, who conducted a year-long review into the Metropolitan Police, said police forces have the wrong attitude towards the cameras. (23 words)
When the sheriff’s department merged with the city police department to form the present-day Metropolitan Police in 1973, Moody stood as the second most senior officer in the combined police agency prior to his retirement in 1977. (39 words)
Struggling to speak over the shouts of the crowd, Assistant Police Chief Morgan Kane of the Metropolitan Police Department said she could not share the shooter's identity or any details about the investigation in progress. (36 words)
Following a joint operation carried out by the Metropolitan Police and Avon and Somerset Police, a 34-year-old (correct age) man was arrested in the Bristol area in the early hours of Saturday, 13 July. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Mr Javid is currently a Deputy Assistant Commissioner with the Metropolitan Police, and has previously held key positions at Avon and Somerset Police and West Midlands Police.
When the sheriff’s department merged with the city police department to form the present-day Metropolitan Police in 1973, Moody stood as the second most senior officer in the combined police agency prior to his retirement in 1977.
Elsewhere in the South Korean capital, police also conducted raids on the Korean National Police Agency, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency and the National Assembly Guards.
The Metropolitan Police is calling for former police officers who retired in the last five years to return to the force, either as paid police constables and sergeants or as volunteers.
A police officer who has has pleaded guilty to charges of false imprisonment and assault occasioning actual bodily harm has been sacked from the Metropolitan Police.
A spokesperson for Metropolitan Police said: “Police were called at 2218hrs on Saturday, 16 December, to a report of a man assaulted in the area of Church Road, Teddington.
A statement by Met Police read: "Metropolitan Police officers have arrested Daniel Khalife, who escaped from HMP Wandsworth on Wednesday.
Baroness Louise Casey, who conducted a year-long review into the Metropolitan Police, said police forces have the wrong attitude towards the cameras.
Locate allocated volunteers and requested the coroner’s report from the Metropolitan police, which would include a detailed postmortem, as well as records of every interview the police did.
One man was detained on Whitehall after a police officer was assaulted during clashes with protesters close to Downing Street, the Metropolitan Police said.
On Sunday morning the Metropolitan Police said a technical issue was impacting a number of police forces.
Struggling to speak over the shouts of the crowd, Assistant Police Chief Morgan Kane of the Metropolitan Police Department said she could not share the shooter's identity or any details about the investigation in progress.
The Metropolitan Police Service has apologised to the family of murdered man Daniel Morgan after they and the force reached a settlement following proposed civil action against the leader of London's police service.
A joint operation by the Metropolitan Police and Northumbria Police led to two raids being carried out by armed officers at addresses in Newcastle, including Ezedi’s place of work.
A representative for the Metropolitan Police told ‘Police were called at 00:20hrs on Thursday, 25 July to reports of a fight on Shepherds Bush Green, W12.
Around 7,000 police officers will be on duty at the Notting Hill Carnival this weekend, the Metropolitan Police have said, after eight people were stabbed at last year’s event.
A spokesperson for Metropolitan Police said: “At 09.05hrs on Saturday, 3 August, police were called to a bus in collision with two children on Watling Street near the junction with Halcot Avenue, Bexleyheath.
A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police Service said: “Police were called at 16:16hrs on Thursday, 10 October to reports of two dogs dangerously out of control in Sydenham Hill Woods SE26.
Following a joint operation carried out by the Metropolitan Police and Avon and Somerset Police, a 34-year-old (correct age) man was arrested in the Bristol area in the early hours of Saturday, 13 July.
Human Rights charity Liberty threatened legal action against the Metropolitan Police on behalf of one of the group, Anthony Sinclair, whose tent and belongings were destroyed while he was in police custody after being wrongfully arrested.