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5732a6ebcc179a14009dabd5
Police
The 1829 Metropolitan Police Act created a modern police force by limiting the purview of the force and its powers, and envisioning it as merely an organ of the judicial system. Their job was apolitical; to maintain the peace and apprehend criminals for the courts to process according to the law. This was very differen...
What did the Metropolitan Police Act say police were a subset of?
{ "text": [ "the judicial system" ], "answer_start": [ 157 ] }
5732a6ebcc179a14009dabd6
Police
The 1829 Metropolitan Police Act created a modern police force by limiting the purview of the force and its powers, and envisioning it as merely an organ of the judicial system. Their job was apolitical; to maintain the peace and apprehend criminals for the courts to process according to the law. This was very differen...
Where was the 'Continental model' of police from?
{ "text": [ "France" ], "answer_start": [ 396 ] }
5732a6ebcc179a14009dabd7
Police
The 1829 Metropolitan Police Act created a modern police force by limiting the purview of the force and its powers, and envisioning it as merely an organ of the judicial system. Their job was apolitical; to maintain the peace and apprehend criminals for the courts to process according to the law. This was very differen...
What part of the government did French police work under?
{ "text": [ "the authority of the monarch" ], "answer_start": [ 499 ] }
5732a92f328d981900601ff3
Police
In 1566, the first police investigator of Rio de Janeiro was recruited. By the 17th century, most captaincies already had local units with law enforcement functions. On July 9, 1775 a Cavalry Regiment was created in the state of Minas Gerais for maintaining law and order. In 1808, the Portuguese royal family relocated ...
When did Rio get its first police investigator?
{ "text": [ "1566" ], "answer_start": [ 3 ] }
5732a92f328d981900601ff4
Police
In 1566, the first police investigator of Rio de Janeiro was recruited. By the 17th century, most captaincies already had local units with law enforcement functions. On July 9, 1775 a Cavalry Regiment was created in the state of Minas Gerais for maintaining law and order. In 1808, the Portuguese royal family relocated ...
How had the Rio police grown by the 17th century?
{ "text": [ "most captaincies already had local units with law enforcement functions" ], "answer_start": [ 93 ] }
5732a92f328d981900601ff5
Police
In 1566, the first police investigator of Rio de Janeiro was recruited. By the 17th century, most captaincies already had local units with law enforcement functions. On July 9, 1775 a Cavalry Regiment was created in the state of Minas Gerais for maintaining law and order. In 1808, the Portuguese royal family relocated ...
When did Minas Gerais get a cavalry regiment?
{ "text": [ "July 9, 1775" ], "answer_start": [ 169 ] }
5732a92f328d981900601ff6
Police
In 1566, the first police investigator of Rio de Janeiro was recruited. By the 17th century, most captaincies already had local units with law enforcement functions. On July 9, 1775 a Cavalry Regiment was created in the state of Minas Gerais for maintaining law and order. In 1808, the Portuguese royal family relocated ...
Where did the Portuguese royal family move in 1808?
{ "text": [ "Brazil" ], "answer_start": [ 323 ] }
5732a92f328d981900601ff7
Police
In 1566, the first police investigator of Rio de Janeiro was recruited. By the 17th century, most captaincies already had local units with law enforcement functions. On July 9, 1775 a Cavalry Regiment was created in the state of Minas Gerais for maintaining law and order. In 1808, the Portuguese royal family relocated ...
Who invaded Portugal in 1808?
{ "text": [ "French" ], "answer_start": [ 346 ] }
5732a975d6dcfa19001e8a60
Police
In Canada, the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary was founded in 1729, making it the first police force in present-day Canada. It was followed in 1834 by the Toronto Police, and in 1838 by police forces in Montreal and Quebec City. A national force, the Dominion Police, was founded in 1868. Initially the Dominion Police p...
When did Canada get its first police?
{ "text": [ "1729" ], "answer_start": [ 62 ] }
5732a975d6dcfa19001e8a61
Police
In Canada, the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary was founded in 1729, making it the first police force in present-day Canada. It was followed in 1834 by the Toronto Police, and in 1838 by police forces in Montreal and Quebec City. A national force, the Dominion Police, was founded in 1868. Initially the Dominion Police p...
What was Canada's first police force?
{ "text": [ "Royal Newfoundland Constabulary" ], "answer_start": [ 15 ] }
5732a975d6dcfa19001e8a62
Police
In Canada, the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary was founded in 1729, making it the first police force in present-day Canada. It was followed in 1834 by the Toronto Police, and in 1838 by police forces in Montreal and Quebec City. A national force, the Dominion Police, was founded in 1868. Initially the Dominion Police p...
When was the Toronto police created?
{ "text": [ "1834" ], "answer_start": [ 143 ] }
5732a975d6dcfa19001e8a63
Police
In Canada, the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary was founded in 1729, making it the first police force in present-day Canada. It was followed in 1834 by the Toronto Police, and in 1838 by police forces in Montreal and Quebec City. A national force, the Dominion Police, was founded in 1868. Initially the Dominion Police p...
When was the Montreal police created?
{ "text": [ "1838" ], "answer_start": [ 178 ] }
5732a975d6dcfa19001e8a64
Police
In Canada, the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary was founded in 1729, making it the first police force in present-day Canada. It was followed in 1834 by the Toronto Police, and in 1838 by police forces in Montreal and Quebec City. A national force, the Dominion Police, was founded in 1868. Initially the Dominion Police p...
When were the first Mounties created?
{ "text": [ "1873" ], "answer_start": [ 449 ] }
5732aa731d5d2e14009ff88f
Police
In the American Old West, policing was often of very poor quality.[citation needed] The Army often provided some policing alongside poorly resourced sheriffs and temporarily organized posses.[citation needed] Public organizations were supplemented by private contractors, notably the Pinkerton National Detective Agency,...
What were the Old West's local police options?
{ "text": [ "poorly resourced sheriffs and temporarily organized posses" ], "answer_start": [ 132 ] }
5732aa731d5d2e14009ff890
Police
In the American Old West, policing was often of very poor quality.[citation needed] The Army often provided some policing alongside poorly resourced sheriffs and temporarily organized posses.[citation needed] Public organizations were supplemented by private contractors, notably the Pinkerton National Detective Agency,...
Which military branch helped the Old West's inadequate local police?
{ "text": [ "The Army" ], "answer_start": [ 84 ] }
5732aa731d5d2e14009ff892
Police
In the American Old West, policing was often of very poor quality.[citation needed] The Army often provided some policing alongside poorly resourced sheriffs and temporarily organized posses.[citation needed] Public organizations were supplemented by private contractors, notably the Pinkerton National Detective Agency,...
Which military branch did the Pinkertons exceed at their height?
{ "text": [ "Army" ], "answer_start": [ 494 ] }
5732aa731d5d2e14009ff891
Police
In the American Old West, policing was often of very poor quality.[citation needed] The Army often provided some policing alongside poorly resourced sheriffs and temporarily organized posses.[citation needed] Public organizations were supplemented by private contractors, notably the Pinkerton National Detective Agency,...
Which private contractor acted as police for businesses?
{ "text": [ "Pinkerton National Detective Agency" ], "answer_start": [ 284 ] }
5732ab8ed6dcfa19001e8a6a
Police
Michel Foucault claims that the contemporary concept of police as a paid and funded functionary of the state was developed by German and French legal scholars and practitioners in Public administration and Statistics in the 17th and early 18th centuries, most notably with Nicolas Delamare's Traité de la Police ("Treati...
Which countries' scholars developed the contemporary police concept?
{ "text": [ "German and French" ], "answer_start": [ 126 ] }
5732ab8ed6dcfa19001e8a6d
Police
Michel Foucault claims that the contemporary concept of police as a paid and funded functionary of the state was developed by German and French legal scholars and practitioners in Public administration and Statistics in the 17th and early 18th centuries, most notably with Nicolas Delamare's Traité de la Police ("Treati...
When was the 'Treatise on the Police' published?
{ "text": [ "1705" ], "answer_start": [ 359 ] }
5732ab8ed6dcfa19001e8a6c
Police
Michel Foucault claims that the contemporary concept of police as a paid and funded functionary of the state was developed by German and French legal scholars and practitioners in Public administration and Statistics in the 17th and early 18th centuries, most notably with Nicolas Delamare's Traité de la Police ("Treati...
What was the 'Treatise on the Police' called in French?
{ "text": [ "Traité de la Police" ], "answer_start": [ 292 ] }
5732ab8ed6dcfa19001e8a6b
Police
Michel Foucault claims that the contemporary concept of police as a paid and funded functionary of the state was developed by German and French legal scholars and practitioners in Public administration and Statistics in the 17th and early 18th centuries, most notably with Nicolas Delamare's Traité de la Police ("Treati...
Who wrote the 'Treatise on the Police'?
{ "text": [ "Nicolas Delamare" ], "answer_start": [ 273 ] }
5732ab8ed6dcfa19001e8a6e
Police
Michel Foucault claims that the contemporary concept of police as a paid and funded functionary of the state was developed by German and French legal scholars and practitioners in Public administration and Statistics in the 17th and early 18th centuries, most notably with Nicolas Delamare's Traité de la Police ("Treati...
What was von Hornigk's career?
{ "text": [ "Political economist and civil servant" ], "answer_start": [ 479 ] }
5732af38d6dcfa19001e8a76
Police
As conceptualized by the Polizeiwissenschaft,according to Foucault the police had an administrative,economic and social duty ("procuring abundance"). It was in charge of demographic concerns and needed to be incorporated within the western political philosophy system of raison d'état and therefore giving the superficia...
Which economic theory did Foucault say supported the police?
{ "text": [ "mercantilist theory" ], "answer_start": [ 428 ] }
5732af38d6dcfa19001e8a75
Police
As conceptualized by the Polizeiwissenschaft,according to Foucault the police had an administrative,economic and social duty ("procuring abundance"). It was in charge of demographic concerns and needed to be incorporated within the western political philosophy system of raison d'état and therefore giving the superficia...
How did Foucault describe the social duty of police?
{ "text": [ "procuring abundance" ], "answer_start": [ 127 ] }
5732af38d6dcfa19001e8a74
Police
As conceptualized by the Polizeiwissenschaft,according to Foucault the police had an administrative,economic and social duty ("procuring abundance"). It was in charge of demographic concerns and needed to be incorporated within the western political philosophy system of raison d'état and therefore giving the superficia...
Who wrote about Polizeiwissenschaft?
{ "text": [ "Foucault" ], "answer_start": [ 58 ] }
5732af38d6dcfa19001e8a77
Police
As conceptualized by the Polizeiwissenschaft,according to Foucault the police had an administrative,economic and social duty ("procuring abundance"). It was in charge of demographic concerns and needed to be incorporated within the western political philosophy system of raison d'état and therefore giving the superficia...
Why did the functions of police grow beyond law enforcement to urban planning?
{ "text": [ "because of the miasma theory of disease; thus, cemeteries were moved out of town, etc." ], "answer_start": [ 638 ] }
5732afaccc179a14009dac0e
Police
Edwin Chadwick's 1829 article, "Preventive police" in the London Review, argued that prevention ought to be the primary concern of a police body, which was not the case in practice. The reason, argued Chadwick, was that "A preventive police would act more immediately by placing difficulties in obtaining the objects of ...
Who wrote 'Preventive Police'?
{ "text": [ "Edwin Chadwick" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
5732afaccc179a14009dac0f
Police
Edwin Chadwick's 1829 article, "Preventive police" in the London Review, argued that prevention ought to be the primary concern of a police body, which was not the case in practice. The reason, argued Chadwick, was that "A preventive police would act more immediately by placing difficulties in obtaining the objects of ...
When was 'Preventive Police' published?
{ "text": [ "1829" ], "answer_start": [ 17 ] }
5732afaccc179a14009dac10
Police
Edwin Chadwick's 1829 article, "Preventive police" in the London Review, argued that prevention ought to be the primary concern of a police body, which was not the case in practice. The reason, argued Chadwick, was that "A preventive police would act more immediately by placing difficulties in obtaining the objects of ...
Where was 'Preventive Police' published?
{ "text": [ "London Review" ], "answer_start": [ 58 ] }
5732afaccc179a14009dac11
Police
Edwin Chadwick's 1829 article, "Preventive police" in the London Review, argued that prevention ought to be the primary concern of a police body, which was not the case in practice. The reason, argued Chadwick, was that "A preventive police would act more immediately by placing difficulties in obtaining the objects of ...
What did Chadwick say police should be focused on?
{ "text": [ "prevention" ], "answer_start": [ 85 ] }
5732afaccc179a14009dac12
Police
Edwin Chadwick's 1829 article, "Preventive police" in the London Review, argued that prevention ought to be the primary concern of a police body, which was not the case in practice. The reason, argued Chadwick, was that "A preventive police would act more immediately by placing difficulties in obtaining the objects of ...
What was the alternative to prevention?
{ "text": [ "a deterrent of punishment" ], "answer_start": [ 348 ] }
5732b0c9cc179a14009dac18
Police
Despite popular conceptions promoted by movies and television, many US police departments prefer not to maintain officers in non-patrol bureaus and divisions beyond a certain period of time, such as in the detective bureau, and instead maintain policies that limit service in such divisions to a specified period of time...
What do some police departments make detectives go back to periodically?
{ "text": [ "patrol duties" ], "answer_start": [ 374 ] }
5732b0c9cc179a14009dac19
Police
Despite popular conceptions promoted by movies and television, many US police departments prefer not to maintain officers in non-patrol bureaus and divisions beyond a certain period of time, such as in the detective bureau, and instead maintain policies that limit service in such divisions to a specified period of time...
Where do some think the most important police work happens?
{ "text": [ "on patrol" ], "answer_start": [ 519 ] }
5732b0c9cc179a14009dac1a
Police
Despite popular conceptions promoted by movies and television, many US police departments prefer not to maintain officers in non-patrol bureaus and divisions beyond a certain period of time, such as in the detective bureau, and instead maintain policies that limit service in such divisions to a specified period of time...
How do patrol officers affect crime?
{ "text": [ "prevent crime by their presence" ], "answer_start": [ 583 ] }
5732b2a0328d981900602011
Police
The terms international policing, transnational policing, and/or global policing began to be used from the early 1990s onwards to describe forms of policing that transcended the boundaries of the sovereign nation-state (Nadelmann, 1993), (Sheptycki, 1995). These terms refer in variable ways to practices and forms for p...
When did Nadelmann write about global policing?
{ "text": [ "1993" ], "answer_start": [ 231 ] }
5732b2a0328d981900602012
Police
The terms international policing, transnational policing, and/or global policing began to be used from the early 1990s onwards to describe forms of policing that transcended the boundaries of the sovereign nation-state (Nadelmann, 1993), (Sheptycki, 1995). These terms refer in variable ways to practices and forms for p...
When did Sheptycki write about global policing?
{ "text": [ "1995" ], "answer_start": [ 250 ] }
5732b2a0328d981900602013
Police
The terms international policing, transnational policing, and/or global policing began to be used from the early 1990s onwards to describe forms of policing that transcended the boundaries of the sovereign nation-state (Nadelmann, 1993), (Sheptycki, 1995). These terms refer in variable ways to practices and forms for p...
What terms have been used to describe policing beyond one country?
{ "text": [ "international policing, transnational policing, and/or global policing" ], "answer_start": [ 10 ] }
5732b79ad6dcfa19001e8a86
Police
Historical studies reveal that policing agents have undertaken a variety of cross-border police missions for many years (Deflem, 2002). For example, in the 19th century a number of European policing agencies undertook cross-border surveillance because of concerns about anarchist agitators and other political radicals. ...
When did Deflem write about cross-border policing?
{ "text": [ "2002" ], "answer_start": [ 129 ] }
5732b79ad6dcfa19001e8a87
Police
Historical studies reveal that policing agents have undertaken a variety of cross-border police missions for many years (Deflem, 2002). For example, in the 19th century a number of European policing agencies undertook cross-border surveillance because of concerns about anarchist agitators and other political radicals. ...
What groups did European police work against across borders in the 19th century?
{ "text": [ "anarchist agitators and other political radicals" ], "answer_start": [ 270 ] }
5732b79ad6dcfa19001e8a88
Police
Historical studies reveal that policing agents have undertaken a variety of cross-border police missions for many years (Deflem, 2002). For example, in the 19th century a number of European policing agencies undertook cross-border surveillance because of concerns about anarchist agitators and other political radicals. ...
Which police force monitored Karl Marx?
{ "text": [ "Prussian" ], "answer_start": [ 381 ] }
5732b79ad6dcfa19001e8a89
Police
Historical studies reveal that policing agents have undertaken a variety of cross-border police missions for many years (Deflem, 2002). For example, in the 19th century a number of European policing agencies undertook cross-border surveillance because of concerns about anarchist agitators and other political radicals. ...
What international police agency was created before WW2?
{ "text": [ "Interpol" ], "answer_start": [ 671 ] }
5732b79ad6dcfa19001e8a8a
Police
Historical studies reveal that policing agents have undertaken a variety of cross-border police missions for many years (Deflem, 2002). For example, in the 19th century a number of European policing agencies undertook cross-border surveillance because of concerns about anarchist agitators and other political radicals. ...
In what era did cross-border policing increase?
{ "text": [ "post–Cold War" ], "answer_start": [ 1050 ] }
5732b7fbcc179a14009dac28
Police
Not a lot of empirical work on the practices of inter/transnational information and intelligence sharing has been undertaken. A notable exception is James Sheptycki's study of police cooperation in the English Channel region (2002), which provides a systematic content analysis of information exchange files and a descri...
Where did Sheptycki study police cooperation?
{ "text": [ "the English Channel region" ], "answer_start": [ 198 ] }
5732b7fbcc179a14009dac29
Police
Not a lot of empirical work on the practices of inter/transnational information and intelligence sharing has been undertaken. A notable exception is James Sheptycki's study of police cooperation in the English Channel region (2002), which provides a systematic content analysis of information exchange files and a descri...
When did Sheptycki write about police cooperation?
{ "text": [ "2002" ], "answer_start": [ 226 ] }
5732b7fbcc179a14009dac2a
Police
Not a lot of empirical work on the practices of inter/transnational information and intelligence sharing has been undertaken. A notable exception is James Sheptycki's study of police cooperation in the English Channel region (2002), which provides a systematic content analysis of information exchange files and a descri...
When did the Channel region establish routine cross-border policing?
{ "text": [ "1968" ], "answer_start": [ 542 ] }
5732b7fbcc179a14009dac2b
Police
Not a lot of empirical work on the practices of inter/transnational information and intelligence sharing has been undertaken. A notable exception is James Sheptycki's study of police cooperation in the English Channel region (2002), which provides a systematic content analysis of information exchange files and a descri...
When was the Schengen Treaty signed?
{ "text": [ "1992" ], "answer_start": [ 680 ] }
5732b7fbcc179a14009dac2c
Police
Not a lot of empirical work on the practices of inter/transnational information and intelligence sharing has been undertaken. A notable exception is James Sheptycki's study of police cooperation in the English Channel region (2002), which provides a systematic content analysis of information exchange files and a descri...
What did the Schengen Treaty do for policing?
{ "text": [ "formalized aspects of police information exchange across the territory of the European Union" ], "answer_start": [ 733 ] }
5732b8ac328d98190060202b
Police
Studies of this kind outside of Europe are even rarer, so it is difficult to make generalizations, but one small-scale study that compared transnational police information and intelligence sharing practices at specific cross-border locations in North America and Europe confirmed that low visibility of police informatio...
Where has cross-border policing been most under-studied?
{ "text": [ "outside of Europe" ], "answer_start": [ 21 ] }
5732b8ac328d98190060202c
Police
Studies of this kind outside of Europe are even rarer, so it is difficult to make generalizations, but one small-scale study that compared transnational police information and intelligence sharing practices at specific cross-border locations in North America and Europe confirmed that low visibility of police informatio...
Who compared transnational police information and intelligence sharing practices?
{ "text": [ "Alain" ], "answer_start": [ 369 ] }
5732b8ac328d98190060202d
Police
Studies of this kind outside of Europe are even rarer, so it is difficult to make generalizations, but one small-scale study that compared transnational police information and intelligence sharing practices at specific cross-border locations in North America and Europe confirmed that low visibility of police informatio...
What kind of policing has become common practice?
{ "text": [ "Intelligence-led" ], "answer_start": [ 383 ] }
5732b8ac328d98190060202e
Police
Studies of this kind outside of Europe are even rarer, so it is difficult to make generalizations, but one small-scale study that compared transnational police information and intelligence sharing practices at specific cross-border locations in North America and Europe confirmed that low visibility of police informatio...
What problems did Sheptycki say 'organizational pathologies' have caused for police?
{ "text": [ "make the functioning of security-intelligence processes in transnational policing deeply problematic" ], "answer_start": [ 810 ] }
5732b8ac328d98190060202f
Police
Studies of this kind outside of Europe are even rarer, so it is difficult to make generalizations, but one small-scale study that compared transnational police information and intelligence sharing practices at specific cross-border locations in North America and Europe confirmed that low visibility of police informatio...
What paradox did Sheptycki point out?
{ "text": [ "the harder policing agencies work to produce security, the greater are feelings of insecurity" ], "answer_start": [ 1069 ] }
5732baf1328d981900602035
Police
Police development-aid to weak, failed or failing states is another form of transnational policing that has garnered attention. This form of transnational policing plays an increasingly important role in United Nations peacekeeping and this looks set to grow in the years ahead, especially as the international community...
Where has transnational policing become more important?
{ "text": [ "in United Nations peacekeeping" ], "answer_start": [ 201 ] }
5732baf1328d981900602037
Police
Police development-aid to weak, failed or failing states is another form of transnational policing that has garnered attention. This form of transnational policing plays an increasingly important role in United Nations peacekeeping and this looks set to grow in the years ahead, especially as the international community...
Who wrote about police development-aid in 2007?
{ "text": [ "Goldsmith and Sheptycki" ], "answer_start": [ 423 ] }
5732baf1328d981900602036
Police
Police development-aid to weak, failed or failing states is another form of transnational policing that has garnered attention. This form of transnational policing plays an increasingly important role in United Nations peacekeeping and this looks set to grow in the years ahead, especially as the international community...
What kind of countries get assistance with policing?
{ "text": [ "weak, failed or failing states" ], "answer_start": [ 26 ] }
5732baf1328d981900602039
Police
Police development-aid to weak, failed or failing states is another form of transnational policing that has garnered attention. This form of transnational policing plays an increasingly important role in United Nations peacekeeping and this looks set to grow in the years ahead, especially as the international community...
What concern did Hills raise about power imbalances?
{ "text": [ "With transnational police development-aid the imbalances of power between donors and recipients are stark" ], "answer_start": [ 454 ] }
5732baf1328d981900602038
Police
Police development-aid to weak, failed or failing states is another form of transnational policing that has garnered attention. This form of transnational policing plays an increasingly important role in United Nations peacekeeping and this looks set to grow in the years ahead, especially as the international community...
What concern did Hills raise about police models?
{ "text": [ "there are questions about the applicability and transportability of policing models between jurisdictions" ], "answer_start": [ 564 ] }
5732bba1d6dcfa19001e8a90
Police
Perhaps the greatest question regarding the future development of transnational policing is: in whose interest is it? At a more practical level, the question translates into one about how to make transnational policing institutions democratically accountable (Sheptycki, 2004). For example, according to the Global Accou...
Who wrote the Global Accountability Report for 2007?
{ "text": [ "Lloyd, et al." ], "answer_start": [ 347 ] }
5732bba1d6dcfa19001e8a93
Police
Perhaps the greatest question regarding the future development of transnational policing is: in whose interest is it? At a more practical level, the question translates into one about how to make transnational policing institutions democratically accountable (Sheptycki, 2004). For example, according to the Global Accou...
Why is transnational policing so unaccountable?
{ "text": [ "this is a secretive area and one not open to civil society involvement" ], "answer_start": [ 614 ] }
5732bba1d6dcfa19001e8a92
Police
Perhaps the greatest question regarding the future development of transnational policing is: in whose interest is it? At a more practical level, the question translates into one about how to make transnational policing institutions democratically accountable (Sheptycki, 2004). For example, according to the Global Accou...
How accountable is Interpol?
{ "text": [ "22%" ], "answer_start": [ 454 ] }
5732bba1d6dcfa19001e8a91
Police
Perhaps the greatest question regarding the future development of transnational policing is: in whose interest is it? At a more practical level, the question translates into one about how to make transnational policing institutions democratically accountable (Sheptycki, 2004). For example, according to the Global Accou...
What is the least-accountable IGO?
{ "text": [ "Interpol" ], "answer_start": [ 367 ] }
5732bcead6dcfa19001e8a98
Police
They can also be armed with non-lethal (more accurately known as "less than lethal" or "less-lethal") weaponry, particularly for riot control. Non-lethal weapons include batons, tear gas, riot control agents, rubber bullets, riot shields, water cannons and electroshock weapons. Police officers often carry handcuffs to ...
What should non-lethal weapons properly be called?
{ "text": [ "\"less than lethal\" or \"less-lethal\"" ], "answer_start": [ 65 ] }
5732bcead6dcfa19001e8a99
Police
They can also be armed with non-lethal (more accurately known as "less than lethal" or "less-lethal") weaponry, particularly for riot control. Non-lethal weapons include batons, tear gas, riot control agents, rubber bullets, riot shields, water cannons and electroshock weapons. Police officers often carry handcuffs to ...
What are common less-lethal weapons?
{ "text": [ "batons, tear gas, riot control agents, rubber bullets, riot shields, water cannons and electroshock weapons" ], "answer_start": [ 170 ] }
5732bcead6dcfa19001e8a9a
Police
They can also be armed with non-lethal (more accurately known as "less than lethal" or "less-lethal") weaponry, particularly for riot control. Non-lethal weapons include batons, tear gas, riot control agents, rubber bullets, riot shields, water cannons and electroshock weapons. Police officers often carry handcuffs to ...
What is supposed to be the last resort for police?
{ "text": [ "The use of firearms or deadly force" ], "answer_start": [ 339 ] }
5732bcead6dcfa19001e8a9b
Police
They can also be armed with non-lethal (more accurately known as "less than lethal" or "less-lethal") weaponry, particularly for riot control. Non-lethal weapons include batons, tear gas, riot control agents, rubber bullets, riot shields, water cannons and electroshock weapons. Police officers often carry handcuffs to ...
What is South Africa's "shoot-to-kill" policy?
{ "text": [ "allows police to use deadly force against any person who poses a significant threat to them or civilians" ], "answer_start": [ 629 ] }
5732bcead6dcfa19001e8a9c
Police
They can also be armed with non-lethal (more accurately known as "less than lethal" or "less-lethal") weaponry, particularly for riot control. Non-lethal weapons include batons, tear gas, riot control agents, rubber bullets, riot shields, water cannons and electroshock weapons. Police officers often carry handcuffs to ...
Where can police shoot fleeing convicts?
{ "text": [ "Brazil" ], "answer_start": [ 490 ] }
5732befb1d5d2e14009ff897
Police
Modern police forces make extensive use of radio communications equipment, carried both on the person and installed in vehicles, to co-ordinate their work, share information, and get help quickly. In recent years, vehicle-installed computers have enhanced the ability of police communications, enabling easier dispatchin...
How do modern police often communicate?
{ "text": [ "radio" ], "answer_start": [ 43 ] }
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Police
Modern police forces make extensive use of radio communications equipment, carried both on the person and installed in vehicles, to co-ordinate their work, share information, and get help quickly. In recent years, vehicle-installed computers have enhanced the ability of police communications, enabling easier dispatchin...
Where do police have radios?
{ "text": [ "carried both on the person and installed in vehicles" ], "answer_start": [ 75 ] }
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Police
Modern police forces make extensive use of radio communications equipment, carried both on the person and installed in vehicles, to co-ordinate their work, share information, and get help quickly. In recent years, vehicle-installed computers have enhanced the ability of police communications, enabling easier dispatchin...
Why do police use radios?
{ "text": [ "to co-ordinate their work, share information, and get help quickly" ], "answer_start": [ 129 ] }
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Police
Modern police forces make extensive use of radio communications equipment, carried both on the person and installed in vehicles, to co-ordinate their work, share information, and get help quickly. In recent years, vehicle-installed computers have enhanced the ability of police communications, enabling easier dispatchin...
What have computers in police cars enabled for investigation?
{ "text": [ "criminal background checks on persons of interest to be completed in a matter of seconds" ], "answer_start": [ 332 ] }
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Police
Modern police forces make extensive use of radio communications equipment, carried both on the person and installed in vehicles, to co-ordinate their work, share information, and get help quickly. In recent years, vehicle-installed computers have enhanced the ability of police communications, enabling easier dispatchin...
What have computers in police cars enabled for reporting?
{ "text": [ "updating officers' daily activity log and other, required reports on a real-time basis" ], "answer_start": [ 426 ] }
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Police
Unmarked vehicles are used primarily for sting operations or apprehending criminals without alerting them to their presence. Some police forces use unmarked or minimally marked cars for traffic law enforcement, since drivers slow down at the sight of marked police vehicles and unmarked vehicles make it easier for offic...
When do police often use unmarked cars?
{ "text": [ "primarily for sting operations or apprehending criminals without alerting them to their presence" ], "answer_start": [ 27 ] }
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Police
Unmarked vehicles are used primarily for sting operations or apprehending criminals without alerting them to their presence. Some police forces use unmarked or minimally marked cars for traffic law enforcement, since drivers slow down at the sight of marked police vehicles and unmarked vehicles make it easier for offic...
What use of unmarked cars is controversial?
{ "text": [ "for traffic law enforcement" ], "answer_start": [ 182 ] }
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Police
Unmarked vehicles are used primarily for sting operations or apprehending criminals without alerting them to their presence. Some police forces use unmarked or minimally marked cars for traffic law enforcement, since drivers slow down at the sight of marked police vehicles and unmarked vehicles make it easier for offic...
Why did New York State ban unmarked cars for traffic cops?
{ "text": [ "it endangered motorists who might be pulled over by people impersonating police officers" ], "answer_start": [ 480 ] }
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Police
Unmarked vehicles are used primarily for sting operations or apprehending criminals without alerting them to their presence. Some police forces use unmarked or minimally marked cars for traffic law enforcement, since drivers slow down at the sight of marked police vehicles and unmarked vehicles make it easier for offic...
When did New York State ban unmarked cars for traffic cops?
{ "text": [ "1996" ], "answer_start": [ 455 ] }
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Police
Motorcycles are also commonly used, particularly in locations that a car may not be able to reach, to control potential public order situations involving meetings of motorcyclists and often in escort duties where motorcycle police officers can quickly clear a path for escorted vehicles. Bicycle patrols are used in some...
Why do some cops use bicycles to patrol?
{ "text": [ "they allow for more open interaction with the public" ], "answer_start": [ 335 ] }
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Police
Motorcycles are also commonly used, particularly in locations that a car may not be able to reach, to control potential public order situations involving meetings of motorcyclists and often in escort duties where motorcycle police officers can quickly clear a path for escorted vehicles. Bicycle patrols are used in some...
How do bicycles help catch some suspects?
{ "text": [ "their quieter operation can facilitate approaching suspects unawares and can help in pursuing them attempting to escape on foot" ], "answer_start": [ 402 ] }
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Police
Motorcycles are also commonly used, particularly in locations that a car may not be able to reach, to control potential public order situations involving meetings of motorcyclists and often in escort duties where motorcycle police officers can quickly clear a path for escorted vehicles. Bicycle patrols are used in some...
What do police use to control motorcyclist events?
{ "text": [ "Motorcycles" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
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Police
In the United States, August Vollmer introduced other reforms, including education requirements for police officers. O.W. Wilson, a student of Vollmer, helped reduce corruption and introduce professionalism in Wichita, Kansas, and later in the Chicago Police Department. Strategies employed by O.W. Wilson included rotat...
Who was O.W. Wilson a student of?
{ "text": [ "August Vollmer" ], "answer_start": [ 22 ] }
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Police
In the United States, August Vollmer introduced other reforms, including education requirements for police officers. O.W. Wilson, a student of Vollmer, helped reduce corruption and introduce professionalism in Wichita, Kansas, and later in the Chicago Police Department. Strategies employed by O.W. Wilson included rotat...
Who introduced education requirements for US police?
{ "text": [ "August Vollmer" ], "answer_start": [ 22 ] }
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Police
In the United States, August Vollmer introduced other reforms, including education requirements for police officers. O.W. Wilson, a student of Vollmer, helped reduce corruption and introduce professionalism in Wichita, Kansas, and later in the Chicago Police Department. Strategies employed by O.W. Wilson included rotat...
Why did Wilson rotate officers between communities?
{ "text": [ "to reduce their vulnerability to corruption" ], "answer_start": [ 361 ] }
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Police
In the United States, August Vollmer introduced other reforms, including education requirements for police officers. O.W. Wilson, a student of Vollmer, helped reduce corruption and introduce professionalism in Wichita, Kansas, and later in the Chicago Police Department. Strategies employed by O.W. Wilson included rotat...
Where did Wilson reduce police corruption?
{ "text": [ "Wichita, Kansas, and later in the Chicago Police Department" ], "answer_start": [ 210 ] }
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Police
In the United States, August Vollmer introduced other reforms, including education requirements for police officers. O.W. Wilson, a student of Vollmer, helped reduce corruption and introduce professionalism in Wichita, Kansas, and later in the Chicago Police Department. Strategies employed by O.W. Wilson included rotat...
How did Wilson recruit more qualified police?
{ "text": [ "an aggressive recruiting drive with higher police salaries" ], "answer_start": [ 547 ] }
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Police
In Miranda the court created safeguards against self-incriminating statements made after an arrest. The court held that "The prosecution may not use statements, whether exculpatory or inculpatory, stemming from questioning initiated by law enforcement officers after a person has been taken into custody or otherwise dep...
What does Miranda provide?
{ "text": [ "safeguards against self-incriminating statements made after an arrest" ], "answer_start": [ 29 ] }
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Police
In Miranda the court created safeguards against self-incriminating statements made after an arrest. The court held that "The prosecution may not use statements, whether exculpatory or inculpatory, stemming from questioning initiated by law enforcement officers after a person has been taken into custody or otherwise dep...
What does the 5th Amendment protect against?
{ "text": [ "self-incrimination" ], "answer_start": [ 491 ] }
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Police
In Miranda the court created safeguards against self-incriminating statements made after an arrest. The court held that "The prosecution may not use statements, whether exculpatory or inculpatory, stemming from questioning initiated by law enforcement officers after a person has been taken into custody or otherwise dep...
Which amendment prevents self-incrimination?
{ "text": [ "Fifth" ], "answer_start": [ 455 ] }
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Police
In Terry v. Ohio (1968) the court divided seizure into two parts, the investigatory stop and arrest. The court further held that during an investigatory stop a police officer's search " [is] confined to what [is] minimally necessary to determine whether [a suspect] is armed, and the intrusion, which [is] made for the s...
When was the Terry v. Ohio case?
{ "text": [ "1968" ], "answer_start": [ 18 ] }
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Police
In Terry v. Ohio (1968) the court divided seizure into two parts, the investigatory stop and arrest. The court further held that during an investigatory stop a police officer's search " [is] confined to what [is] minimally necessary to determine whether [a suspect] is armed, and the intrusion, which [is] made for the s...
Which two parts did Terry v. Ohio divide seizure into?
{ "text": [ "investigatory stop and arrest" ], "answer_start": [ 70 ] }
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Police
In Terry v. Ohio (1968) the court divided seizure into two parts, the investigatory stop and arrest. The court further held that during an investigatory stop a police officer's search " [is] confined to what [is] minimally necessary to determine whether [a suspect] is armed, and the intrusion, which [is] made for the s...
What is an investigatory stop's search limited to?
{ "text": [ "what [is] minimally necessary to determine whether [a suspect] is armed" ], "answer_start": [ 203 ] }
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Police
All police officers in the United Kingdom, whatever their actual rank, are 'constables' in terms of their legal position. This means that a newly appointed constable has the same arrest powers as a Chief Constable or Commissioner. However, certain higher ranks have additional powers to authorize certain aspects of poli...
What is the legal status of UK police officers?
{ "text": [ "constables" ], "answer_start": [ 76 ] }
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Police
All police officers in the United Kingdom, whatever their actual rank, are 'constables' in terms of their legal position. This means that a newly appointed constable has the same arrest powers as a Chief Constable or Commissioner. However, certain higher ranks have additional powers to authorize certain aspects of poli...
What can only Inspector-ranked UK officers do?
{ "text": [ "authorize a search of a suspect's house" ], "answer_start": [ 354 ] }
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Police
All police officers in the United Kingdom, whatever their actual rank, are 'constables' in terms of their legal position. This means that a newly appointed constable has the same arrest powers as a Chief Constable or Commissioner. However, certain higher ranks have additional powers to authorize certain aspects of poli...
What can only Superintendent-ranked UK officers do?
{ "text": [ "authorize a suspect's detention beyond 24 hours" ], "answer_start": [ 489 ] }
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Police
All police officers in the United Kingdom, whatever their actual rank, are 'constables' in terms of their legal position. This means that a newly appointed constable has the same arrest powers as a Chief Constable or Commissioner. However, certain higher ranks have additional powers to authorize certain aspects of poli...
What powers of a new UK police officer are the same as a Commissioner's?
{ "text": [ "arrest" ], "answer_start": [ 179 ] }
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Police
In contrast, the police are entitled to protect private rights in some jurisdictions. To ensure that the police would not interfere in the regular competencies of the courts of law, some police acts require that the police may only interfere in such cases where protection from courts cannot be obtained in time, and whe...
Why do some police acts limit when police can interfere without court orders?
{ "text": [ "To ensure that the police would not interfere in the regular competencies of the courts of law" ], "answer_start": [ 86 ] }
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Police
In contrast, the police are entitled to protect private rights in some jurisdictions. To ensure that the police would not interfere in the regular competencies of the courts of law, some police acts require that the police may only interfere in such cases where protection from courts cannot be obtained in time, and whe...
What could be impeded without police interference?
{ "text": [ "the realization of the private right" ], "answer_start": [ 360 ] }
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Police
In contrast, the police are entitled to protect private rights in some jurisdictions. To ensure that the police would not interfere in the regular competencies of the courts of law, some police acts require that the police may only interfere in such cases where protection from courts cannot be obtained in time, and whe...
How could police help the owner when a restaurant guest doesn't pay because their wallet got stolen?
{ "text": [ "establish a restaurant guest's identity and forward it to the innkeeper" ], "answer_start": [ 456 ] }
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Punjab,_Pakistan
Punjab (Urdu, Punjabi: پنجاب, panj-āb, "five waters": listen (help·info)), also spelled Panjab, is the most populous of the four provinces of Pakistan. It has an area of 205,344 square kilometres (79,284 square miles) and a population of 91.379.615 in 2011, approximately 56% of the country's total population. Its prov...
What does Punjab mean?
{ "text": [ "five waters" ], "answer_start": [ 40 ] }
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Punjab,_Pakistan
Punjab (Urdu, Punjabi: پنجاب, panj-āb, "five waters": listen (help·info)), also spelled Panjab, is the most populous of the four provinces of Pakistan. It has an area of 205,344 square kilometres (79,284 square miles) and a population of 91.379.615 in 2011, approximately 56% of the country's total population. Its prov...
How many provinces does Pakistan have?
{ "text": [ "four" ], "answer_start": [ 125 ] }
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Punjab,_Pakistan
Punjab (Urdu, Punjabi: پنجاب, panj-āb, "five waters": listen (help·info)), also spelled Panjab, is the most populous of the four provinces of Pakistan. It has an area of 205,344 square kilometres (79,284 square miles) and a population of 91.379.615 in 2011, approximately 56% of the country's total population. Its prov...
How large is Punjab?
{ "text": [ "205,344 square kilometres (79,284 square miles)" ], "answer_start": [ 171 ] }
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Punjab,_Pakistan
Punjab (Urdu, Punjabi: پنجاب, panj-āb, "five waters": listen (help·info)), also spelled Panjab, is the most populous of the four provinces of Pakistan. It has an area of 205,344 square kilometres (79,284 square miles) and a population of 91.379.615 in 2011, approximately 56% of the country's total population. Its prov...
What is Punjab's population?
{ "text": [ "91.379.615" ], "answer_start": [ 239 ] }