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Police 

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  1. When constabulary duty's to be done,
    A policeman's lot is not a happy one.
     
    W. S. Gilbert 1836–1911 English writer of comic and satirical verse: The Pirates of Penzance (1879) act 2
  2. They always get their man.
    unofficial motto of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
    John J. Healy 1840–1908 American newspaperman and whiskey trader: attributed, 1877
  3. Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
    Robert Kennedy 1925–68 American Democratic politician: The Pursuit of Justice (1964)
  4. The South African police would leave no stone unturned to see that nothing disturbed the even terror of their lives.
    Tom Sharpe 1928–2013 British novelist: Indecent Exposure (1973)
  5. A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.
    Tom Wolfe 1931–  American writer: The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) ch. 24