chief constablenoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˌtʃiːf ˈkʌn.stə.bəl/us/ˌtʃiːf ˈkɑːn.stə.bəl/in Britain, the police officer in charge of the police in a particular area
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People who work for the police service
- bobby
- cadet
- chaperone
- constable
- cop
- DCI
- G-man
- inspector
- Mountie
- nark
- officer
- outrider
- patrol officer
- patrolman
- policeman
- policewoman
- prefect
- sepoy
- sergeant
- trooper
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Examples from literature
- The chief constable then read the statement that the prisoner had made to him.
- The chief constable was there, and as became a professed detector of crime, he examined everything minutely inside and outside the two huts, but he could not find anything suspicious about either of them.
- The evidence of the innkeeper and the waiter was a repetition of the story they had told to the chief constable on the preceding day.
- What he said and what he did was discussed about the township, and the chief constable listened to every report, expecting that some valuable information would accidentally leak out.
- When I have taken the additional step which completes my investigations, I will go to the chief constable, reconstruct the crime for him as I see it now, and ask him to take action.