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Police detective   /pəlˈis dɪtˈɛktɪv/   Listen
Police detective

noun
1.
A police officer who investigates crimes.  Synonyms: detective, investigator, tec.






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"Police detective" Quotes from Famous Books



... spirit of fruitless vivacity, he made himself to a very considerable extent a technical expert in painting, a technical expert in sculpture, a technical expert in music. In his old age, he shows traces of being so bizarre a thing as an abstract police detective, writing at length in letters and diaries his views of certain criminal cases in an Italian town. Indeed, his own Ring and the Book is merely a sublime detective story. He was in a hundred things this type of ...
— Robert Browning • G. K. Chesterton



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