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Quotes About Officers

Instead, Stott trained a crew of liaison officers who wore light-blue vests instead of the customary yellow. These officers were selected not for their riot control skills but for their social skills: friendliness and ability to banter.
~ Daniel Coyle
Full statehood in Delhi is a larger issue as compared to anti-corruption. For, only when the Delhi government gets its anti-corruption bureau back will it get the power of suspension and vigilance inquiries on corrupt officers of different departments of the government. That is how you can curb the corruption.
~ Atishi
We must support our law enforcement officers, and we must start prioritizing the prevention of violent crime.
~ Mike Parson
The more frequently officers encounter violent suspects from any given racial group, the greater the chance that members of that racial group will be shot by a police officer.
~ Heather Mac Donald
Even people who have successfully obtained a visa are sometimes being turned back at the airport. Such incidents have never happened in the past but are increasing now because even low level officers of the border patrol department are being entrusted with too much discretion power on how they execute the laws.
~ Raja Krishnamoorthi
When senior officers start shooting each other, it's time to leave," said Gamache. "I'm sure it's somewhere in the regulations.
~ Louise Penny
MÄ›l jsem strach. Kdo by nemÄ›l nahnáno? KromÄ› blázn?, robot?, kandidát? na sebevraždu... ... a d?stojník?.
~ Joe Haldeman
There had been an army in which that sort of thing was done, a strong quasi-memory told me. The Marxist POUM militia in the Spanish Civil War, early twentieth. You obeyed an order only after it had been explained in detail; you could refuse if it didn't make sense. Officers and men got drunk together and never saluted or used titles. They lost the war. But the other side didn't have any fun.
~ Joe Haldeman
As the two women sobbed, Lovat felt a real hatred for the men behind this. Not just Johnson's killers, but everyone involved in the whole bloody mess. Stinking politicians and army officers who had the world at their feet but were never satisfied. Men who couldn't let their ambitions rest, but always wanted more.
~ John Bainbridge
He had just the same narrow head, and stubborn mouth, and honest, quick-tempered eyes. It is the type that makes dashing regimental officers, and earns V.C.'s, and gets done in wholesale. I was never that kind. I belonged to the school of the cunning cowards.
~ John Buchan
If officers desire to have control over their commands, they must remain habitually with them, industriously attend to their instruction and comfort, and in battle lead them well.
~ Stonewall Jackson
Not all chekisty were men. In the Crimea Stalin's Baku comrade Rozalia Zemliachka and her lover Béla Kun, with Lenin's approval, murdered 50,000 White officers who had trusted Commander Frunze's safe conduct. Zemliachka, a Cheka sadist who would live to enjoy a pension, tied the officers in pairs to planks and burned them alive in furnaces, or drowned them in barges that she sank offshore.
~ Donald Rayfield
General Erwin Rommel, commander of the 7th Panzer Division, was guilty of only slight hyperbole later when he said of his sweep through France: "Nowhere was any resistance attempted. . . . Hundreds upon hundreds of French troops, with their officers, surrendered at our arrival
~ Unknown
In 1937, Stalin ordered the executions of 680,000 people judged politically unreliable, including military officers, party officials, and members of the politburo—an incredible number.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
Hascomb snatched an ancient weapon out of his glove compartment. Officers have smuggled them home from the last five wars. The Colt.45 automatic.
~ John D. MacDonald
there can be no reason to believe these officers of an established news organization serving newspapers all over the country failed to realize their responsibilities at a moment of supreme significance to the people of this country.
~ John Dos Passos
But as cops began to develop FBI-like attitudes, and to build FBI-like fortresses, as they sealed themselves away in patrol cars, as they fended off contact with the public, they began to resemble a paramilitary force, rather than peace officers.
~ John Sandford
paramilitary police officers believed the Punjab police were on Bhindranwale's
~ Unknown
No outsider was allowed in the station except wives of the higher officers and a few friends. Where was Harriet in all this excitement? In the station, taking the train with the troops to Piraeus.
~ Unknown
Colonel Sven Haverstrom of the Dalbreck Royal Guard, Assigned Steward of Crown Prince Jaxon. The others laughed at that title. They were free with their jest and jabs, even with an officer who outranked them, but Sven gave it back as good as he got it. Officer Jeb McCance, Falworth Special Forces. Officer Tavish Baird, Tactician, Fourth Battalion. Officer Orrin del Aransas, Falworth First Archer Assault Unit.
~ Mary E. Pearson
When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe
~ Mary Frances Berry
Having decided there was little point in denying my status as a gentrifier, I joined the neighborhood security association, a network of mostly middle- and upper-middle-class homeowners that employed a small stable of private patrol officers to cruise the neighborhood and scare any potential marauders, most of which amounted to kids loitering near the park.
~ Meghan Daum
Only high-ranking student officers were allowed off campus in groups on Sunday afternoons, although cadets could leave for a meal with their parents. Fred Trump often came up to see his son. Once, when Fred arrived in a limousine driven by his chauffeur, Donald was too embarrassed to meet him. From then on, Fred drove his own Cadillac to check up on Donald. The
~ Unknown
Bowers had noticed on earlier operations that the ARVN noncoms, unlike their officers, seemed to welcome help and thought an American sergeant enough of a cut above them so that they could blame him if things went wrong.
~ Neil Sheehan