How to Use police officer in a Sentence

police officer

noun
  • It was manned by police officers, the sources said.
    — Jay Blackman, NBC news, 23 Mar. 2026
  • His work freed men from prison and brought about changes in how police officers do their jobs.
    — Joseph Gerth, Louisville Courier Journal, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The risks were maybe getting stopped by a police officer or two.
    — Louis Martinez, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Both police officers then fired their weapons.
    — Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The name of the police officer has not been released.
    — David Clarey, jsonline.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The name of the police officer has not been released.
    — Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The police officer ran her over.
    — Alyssa N. Salcedo, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The police officer has a heart attack and now has brain damage from that.
    — ABC News, 24 May 2026
  • What is an assault on a police officer?
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The police officer at the center of this story hadn’t planned to be one.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
  • There was not a school police officer at the school when the gunman arrived.
    — New York Times, 9 June 2022
  • There’s a scene where a hooligan bites the eye out of a police officer during a fight.
    — Ed Lavandera, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Her brother, a police officer at the time, would be the one to find their small bodies.
    — Ashley Killough, CNN Money, 19 Apr. 2025
  • He was carried out of a window by a police officer.
    — Heath Kalb, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Balat dropped it near some police officers and tried to run away, the complaint said.
    — Jake Offenhartz, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Troy police officers had to call in backup.
    — Veronica Ortega, CBS News, 18 May 2026
  • The town has 15 full- and part-time police officers.
    — Brian Maass, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • These police officers are heroes who saved lives.
    — Austin Sanders, Austin American Statesman, 3 Mar. 2026
  • At the location, police officers found three men who were dead.
    — Alexandra Hardle, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Fort Worth police officers seized thousands of pounds of drugs, cash and firearms in a bust this week.
    — Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The police officer on the scene saw the gunman shoot two people and called for backup.
    — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 12 June 2022
  • Maybe a police officer there had simply been curious about the case and looked him up.
    — Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The school always has a former police officer on site when school is in session.
    — Savannah Tryens-Fernandes | [email protected], al, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Two women, a child, and a police officer were injured.
    — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 June 2026
  • Think about all these things that can be used to cross-examine and impeach a police officer.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Her parents were there when she was sworn in as a La Mesa police officer.
    — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The suspect was shot by local police officers and is believed to be dead.
    — Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The next morning, police officers saw the car and tried to pull the driver over, police said.
    — Jeremy C. Fox, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • One of the eight injured was a police officer who tried to stop the driver, Sewell said.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2023
  • After a few moments, police officers ordered them to back away from the front row.
    — Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025

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