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Definition of Police detective

1. Noun. A police officer who investigates crimes.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Police Detective

Literary usage of Police detective

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1893)
"Thus, a bank offered a reward " to any bank officer or police detective " for the detection and conviction of a forger, and the recovery of money obtained ..."

2. Courts, Criminals and the Camorra by Arthur Cheney Train (1912)
"The police detective usually lacks the training, education, and social experience to make him effective in dealing with the class of elite criminals who ..."

3. Courts, Criminals and the Camorra by Arthur Cheney Train (1912)
"I have instanced Petrosino as an example of a police detective of a very unusual type, ... The police detective usually lacks the training, education, ..."

4. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"Just a plain police detective. MRS. MANNINGHAM (shrinking away)—police detective? ROUGH—Yes. Or was some years ago. At any rate, still detective enough to ..."

5. Courts and Criminals by Arthur Cheney Train (1912)
"If a police detective doesn't make arrests and send a man to jail every once ... The first resource of the superannuated or discharged police detective is ..."

6. The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided by Isaac Grant Thompson, Irving Browne (1879)
"A bank addressed the offer of reward by circular, " to any bank officer or police detective" for the detection and conviction of a forger and the recovery ..."

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