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POLAC
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polac polăc polać połać
English
Etymology 1
en police accident.
Noun
en UK police en polac.
en 2019 How To Survive Your Police Career Darren Moor Troubador Publishing 9781838598730 https://books.google.com/books?id=mkSMDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT198 I doubt that the organisation is going to be terribly concerned that you arrive at that call thirty seconds later than you would have done otherwise but can be pretty sure that they would have something to say had you smashed up your police car on the way there. I doubt also that CPS would be satisfied with the defence of '...It was my first night duty … and I was rather tired...' after your high profile POLAC gets splashed all over the national newspapers and television news.
en 2015-01-14 Jessica Davies Pc moved into office role 'after telling bosses blue-flashing lights on police cars don't work' The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11344451/Pc-moved-into-office-role-after-telling-bosses-blue-flashing-lights-on-police-cars-dont-work.html And it really brought it home to me when I was involved in my own POLAC (police accident) in March 2012.
en 2015 The Dungeon House Martin Edwards Allison & Busby 9780749019853 https://books.google.com/books?id=5FyCCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT213 First, a woman goes missing, and leaves her things and a mysterious note in her car. Now a POLAC with a DCI in the passenger seat.
en 2018-02-01 StopFightingTheDog policeuk 7uh98h dtkc5e5 That moment you have a POLAC . . . in the middle of the day in town . . . whilst being recorded for a television programme When you have an at fault POLAC on camera!
Etymology 2
en police academy.
Noun
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en Nigeria police The Police Academy of Nigeria.
Anagrams
en aclop P'cola P-cola copal placo-