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Definition of Police commissioner
1. Noun. A civil commissioner appointed to supervise the duties and discipline of the police.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Police Commissioner
Literary usage of Police commissioner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1921)
"672) entitled "An act authorizing the police commissioner of the city of New York
to rehear the charges upon which Meyer Pollack, formerly a patrolman in ..."
2. Theodore Roosevelt and His Time Shown in His Own Letters by Joseph Bucklin Bishop (1920)
"The Mayor then appointed him a police commissioner in a Board of four members,
he to be the President of the Board. As this was a position in the line of ..."
3. Beethoven's Letters: A Critical Edition : with Explanatory Notes by Ludwig van Beethoven, Alfred Christlieb Kalischer, John South Shedlock (1909)
"... NOTE TO police commissioner UNGERMANN Herr v. Schindler naturally ought not
to be mentioned in the presence of both persons, but probably I ought! ..."
4. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"Bureau of municipal research—Continual. and accounting methods of the Bureau of
repairs and supplies; based upon Inquiry requested by police commissioner ..."
5. The Parliamentary Debates: Official Report by Northern Ireland Parliament. House of Commons (1898)
"The evidence of the police commissioner on the subject is :— "Aa regards Constable
W., he had to be from brothel-keepers. I believe he is hopelessly ..."
6. American Police Systems by Raymond Blaine Fosdick (1920)
"the term of the mayor of New York is four years, while his police commissioner
serves five years. Again in Detroit, until recently, the mayor was elected ..."
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