How to Use foot patrol in a Sentence

foot patrol

noun
  • That mission ended in May 2012, during what Egan described as a routine foot patrol through a village.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Officers in certain other units, such as foot patrol and community resource officers, had been transferred to nightly patrol shifts.
    Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • In this case, officers conducting a foot patrol of the lot when observed open alcohol and a firearm in plain view inside an unoccupied vehicle, Munch said.
    Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Kansas City police deployed additional officers to the downtown district, with more officers on foot patrol and more patrols.
    Pj Green september 20, Kansas City Star, 20 Sep. 2025
  • It was followed by an hour-long foot patrol in one of Minneapolis’ immigration corridors, braving the 7 degrees below zero temperature.
    Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2026
  • On a recent four-hour foot patrol, officers Cornelius O’Regan and Kevin D’Avignon stopped four Hispanics and one black for questioning.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026

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