How to Use security police in a Sentence

security police

noun
  • The video then shows security police banging on the door and entering his office and apartment.
    — Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2019
  • He was also criticized for trying to rebrand rather than abolish the Stasi security police.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Li was detained by local security police on charges of spreading rumors and forced to sign a document disavowing his statements.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2020
  • His car, however, was damaged and the Swedish security police arranged a replacement.
    — Bloomberg.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The clash between the heavily armed fighters and the security police turned the city into a free-fire zone, with residents cowering in cars and supermarkets.
    — Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2019
  • But the organization, riddled with informers, was quickly crushed by the security police.
    — Glenn Frankel, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • And 90-year old Cardinal Zen, who was arrested in May by national-security police, is about to be put on trial.
    — William McGurn, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The latest arrests were made under existing antisedition laws that have been increasingly used by national-security police this year.
    — Newley Purnell, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The prince has also overhauled the state security police, recruiting former Egyptian officers to hound dissidents.
    — The Economist, 7 June 2018
  • The Chinese doctor who was reprimanded by security police for warning fellow doctors about the initial coronavirus outbreak died of the illness.
    — USA Today, 21 Apr. 2020
  • The family later learned that Simelane had been abducted and subjected to weeks of brutal torture by members of apartheid’s notorious security police.
    — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Yuen, a former member of the Canto-pop boy band E-kids, was arrested by national security police over the suspicion of sedition and money laundering.
    — Vivienne Chow, Variety, 15 Feb. 2022
  • National security police in Hong Kong arrested seven people linked to pro-democracy news site Stand News, prompting it to close.
    — WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Steinberg starkly recounts how the violence in rebellious Black townships turned inward, with armed gangs colliding in battles encouraged and inflamed by the security police.
    — Glenn Frankel, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • The city’s June 4th Museum, which had already been forced to close, was raided in September by national security police who carried away boxes of exhibits.
    — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 4 June 2022
  • Hong Kong’s new national security police unit on Thursday arrested five people accused of working on ‘seditious publications’ in the form of children’s books about sheep, a report said.
    — Fox News, 22 July 2021
  • Security Chief Chris Tang also warned on Tuesday that those who do not comply with national security police orders would face consequences.
    — Jessie Yeung and Eric Cheung, CNN, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Members of Kurdish security police check identity cards at a checkpoint on the northern edge of Qamishli, a northeastern Syrian city by the border with Turkey.
    — Raja Abdulrahim, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2018
  • The next month, the security police astride the Jordanian border in the dusty southern town of Daraa ignited the tinder by torturing children who had scrawled anti-Assad graffiti on walls.
    — Charles Glass, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
  • National-security police rounded up almost all of Hong Kong’s opposition politicians who had sought to run for the city’s legislative council elections in 2020.
    — Selina Cheng, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
  • In return for allowing a delay to the judicial reforms, Netanyahu has apparently agreed to let Ben-Gvir form a new national security police force, directly under his command.
    — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In communist China, the jockeying for supremacy between the security police and the People’s Liberation Army has at times been decisive in power struggles.
    — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Norway’s security police have warned of the rise of a small but politically extreme and potentially violent group called the Nordic Resistance Movement, which uses the Tyr rune in its branding.
    — Richard Martyn-Hemphill, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Tikhanovskaya, 38, a former English teacher, jumped into the race last May, after security police arrested her husband Sergei Tikhanovsky, thwarting his presidential run.
    — Vivienne Walt, Time, 24 May 2021
  • The group, people familiar with the matter said, included Andy Li, an activist who had been arrested in Hong Kong two weeks ago during a swoop by a new national-security police unit that also raided the office of a newspaper.
    — Joyu Wang, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2020

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