Officers Quotations

Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets.

If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.

The NYPD has too urgent a mission and too few officers for us to waste time and resources on broad, unfocused surveillance. We have a responsibility to protect New Yorkers from violent crime or another terrorist attack - and we uphold the law in doing so.

Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.

The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.

It is essential to the pure and peaceful administration of justice that all its officers keep carefully within the boundaries of their constitutional powers. Auxiliary to this, but not secondary in importance, is a due knowledge of the leading subjects for their inquiry and decision.

The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or police officers or prosecutors. It's about respect for the rule of law!

In 1975, no State or Church guidelines existed in the Republic of Ireland to assist those responding to an allegation of abuse against a minor. No training was given to priests, teachers, police officers or others who worked regularly with children about how to respond appropriately should such allegations be made.

We provide transit facilities, we cooperate in equipping the Afghan army and security forces with arms and helicopters, we cooperate in training officers for law enforcement agencies.

Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.

I think we take for granted police officers and detectives that walk into some pretty heinous situations, and they really have to be very brave. So I love playing a character that's very brave - someone that kind of dives in the fire to figure out what's happened.

Boys used to call me Soda in school days. Soda means 'serving officers daughters association.' I miss those days when I had a very protected life: one could get close and bond with other army people that they gradually would become your extended family.

When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that they're chasing was commonplace.

I think it is important also to recognize that our Customs border protection officers who secure our borders and conduct inspections of people in vehicles and cargo are also facing staffing shortages.

Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.

All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me.

When Congress exercises the powers delegated to it by the Constitution, it may impose affirmative obligations on executive and judicial officers of state and local governments as well as ordinary citizens.

Almost every officer is going to put their life on the line at some point in their career.

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.

Four out of five HSN corporate officers are women. I'm a believer that a diversity of mindset enables us to have an engaged conversation.

I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.

We have to have a national conversation about how police forces should interact with the African-American community, who happens to be paying their salary, who want to be served and protected, who these officers are take an oath to do so.

I was going to show my kids that no matter what happened with their parents, parole officers and other teachers, I wouldn't give up on them. I let them know it matters to me that you come to class, it matters to me that you try, it matters to me when you succeed.

Either we need to redefine what probable cause means and say that police are not subject to it, or we arrest officers right away just as we would with any other person accused of committing a crime. Either we write new laws or enforce existing ones; we cannot have it both ways.

The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.

Blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society. If I had put all of my police officers on Park Avenue and none in Harlem, thousands and thousands more blacks would've been killed during the eight years that I was mayor.

On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.

One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so.

The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.

Despite constant vilifying by the media and congressional threats to take away the tools needed to uncover plots, FBI agents and CIA officers work silently around the clock and risk their own lives to keep us safe.

The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

In general, we as police officers - at least the good police officers - like to look at each situation case by case and always pay close attention to the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law.

I'm in favour of a sensible development of response units and their deployment in any circumstance where there may be a risk to the officers themselves or the neighbourhood they're in. I'm not in favour of a blanket arming of the police.

Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad.

Law enforcement officials have been candid in identifying ways officers could have handled the situation in Ferguson better, and I trust those recommendations will be helpful as we continue to count on them to protect us.

The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization.

The very controversial National Identification Act of 1991, requiring all United States citizens to carry identification, has greatly enhanced the ability of law enforcement officers to identify criminals and terrorists.

Let me be clear: as I have said repeatedly, I do not believe that all police officers are bad, nor do I believe that most are bad. But there must be a transparent, impartial and fair system to judge those that engage in criminal or unethical acts.

I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared with them for a length of time dangers, sufferings, and both good and evil fortune.

Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.

I probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in the history of this city. And I did it by having to use police officers in black areas where there was an astounding amount of crime. If that crime was in white areas, police officers would be in white areas.

It is up to us to change laws on the books like 'Stand Your Ground' laws and push elected officials to enact regulations that hold police officers to the same standards as the rest of society. This is why we vote.

Civilians are arrested every single day - including innocent ones - and they must wait until their day in court in order to argue their side of the story. Police officers must be subjected to the same rules.

Local prosecutors work alongside local police officers on a regular basis and are therefore conflicted when it comes to prosecuting those same officers. They are under extreme pressure from local police unions and from rank-and-file cops.

Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people.

Mr. Hussein began building Ghazalia in the early 1980s as a home for army officers and other members of his Baath Party. Concrete mansions with pillars and domes are common in the southern half of the district.

Montgomery County Sheriff's Deputies and Montgomery County Fire Marshal's officers conducted an investigation into the cause of the explosion,

One of the city officers noticed that the inspection sticker on Mom's car was expired and gave her a ticket as a joke. But Dad wouldn't change it, and she had to go pay.

One of the hardest things I do as FBI Director is call the chiefs and sheriffs in departments around the nation when officers have been killed in the line of duty. I call to express my sorrow and offer the FBI's help.

One of the highest-ranking union officers in the state is given a half-million-dollar gift by a sitting U.S. senator. That is precisely the type of transaction the Senate wants to know about.

One of the key points to me is the lack of communication (among these departments). I don't understand why you don't have that. And why did the officers leave their point of cover? That completely violates standard police doctrine.

Ninety-five is a lot of rounds, but also having eight officers is an unusual number. It's an individual decision to use deadly force. It's their decision to determine how many shots they need to eliminate the threat.

I would have asked Muscogee County to send deputies today, ... but a cloud of gas over Orleans Parish prompted them to withdraw some officers from that area and they asked me not to send any more now.

I wouldn't use the word embarrassed. The officers performed admirably, so I'm proud of them.

I was taught to think outside the box. Before my grandfather was one of the original Mad Men, he and a group of other Air Force Intelligence officers formalized brainstorming as a problem solving technique. He taught the concept that creativity can be taught at Buffalo University. My dad invented toys. My mom was a photographer.

I was surprised by the pictures of U.S. military officers in complete uniform and fully armed, which were published in a newspaper during (Rice's) visit to an Islamic elementary school. I agree that was too much.

I would be very, very surprised if there wasn't a long waiting list, or at least a long list they had to choose from, to pick those staff officers and (non-commissioned officers) going over there.

We had a very difficult time finding many of the officers who worked on these cases to interview them or even call them up because there was no phone services.

Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.

One Sunday, a Sunday probably much like today, two Gestapo officers went out drinking together and they got drunk... They had an argument.

One of the university officers had been assaulted. Somebody had punched him in the face. He was trying to arrest the person that had assaulted him. Another person came up behind that officer and was pulling on that officer trying to separate him from the guy he was trying to arrest,

one of the best officers in the Lebanese army.

Morale among provincial police officers is not high,

Non-uniformed employees play a crucial role in public safety, just as much as police officers and firemen do,

None of those situations are situations where an officer has time to think. It's someone else's actions that forces them to react. It's not that the officers are choosing to go to work to shoot somebody.

Of course, officers took the threat she was coming here very seriously, as they would wherever she was going.

Maybe Mr. Cohen and his team of lawyers think that making fun of Chief Fong's Asian heritage or an officer running over a homeless person is funny or needs context. He should consider heeding the advice of his fellow officers and community leaders and stop trying to publicize and promote this stuff.

Police departments around the country are recognizing that it is a very bad idea to shoot at a motor vehicle, ... Leading departments in America have prohibited officers from shooting at cars, because it doesn?t help the officer, it doesn?t stop the car, and it just turns the car into an unguided missile.

Police departments should have a zero-tolerance policy toward domestic violence. Officers and other violators should be treated as criminals just as they would in any other situation.

Police officers and firemen have safety training and protective equipment. The most a taxi driver might have is a Plexiglas window.

Police officers are allowed to legally use guns.

Police officers are subject to arrest for perceived violations of the law like anybody else. This officer will be afforded his right to due process to either clear his name or be convicted.

Police officers need up-to-date equipment and better technology to stay safe on the job while fighting crime,

Police officers not wearing their seat belts certainly sends the wrong message to members of the public, ... Obviously, for their own safety, it's in the people's best interest to wear their seat belts.

Police officers on duty, or traveling back and forth to work, or traveling anywhere, shouldn't be drinking and getting behind the wheel of a car, and they shouldn't be drinking because they have a gun with them,

Police officers risk their lives to protect me and my family. We can give them the benefit of the doubt,

Police officers should be considering is it worth the risk of an accident or the risk of human life for the type of crime I'm pursuing. In the Lewis case, the officers just wanted to talk to two juveniles riding on a motorcycle.

Police officers who ignore or brush off a plea for help violate their oath to this city and deserve severe and decisive punishment, ... But what is important is that the NYPD has moved swiftly against those members that violated department policy, and instituted the changes that will prevent the recurrence of future incidents.

Neighbors were calling in that a female, a white female, had been shot and that the subject was armed with a gun. Upon arrival, the police officers discovered that the subject was inside the house.

Neither of the officers were injured in the shooting in any way. The suspect--the male--was pronounced dead on the scene.

Obama is as likely to be impeached as he is to be installed as the next pontiff. And I say that as someone who has testified in Congress that this president has violated federal laws, unconstitutionally appointed various executive-branch officers and improperly transferred money.

Obviously, it touches detectives and officers in a special way when you're talking about people who cannot fight back, who cannot defend themselves against someone like this.

People won't see enforcement officers out in their yards with rulers measuring the height of a blade of grass. Our intent is to be reasonable and we're willing to work with individuals to rectify the problem, whatever it is.

I don't have enough corrections officers and I don't believe I have enough road officers.

I'd just like to thank everyone involved. They saved my dog's life. You don't find many police officers or fire departments that are going to go to that much work for a dog.

If we could get an increase in officers to get back to that, over time the crime rate would start to drop, ... We've become a more reactive police department.

If this opens up so we have more and more officers speaking up and blaming Rumsfeld and blaming senior civilians, then it is possibly heading towards a fairly dangerous civilian-military crisis.

I don't know why are we having elections in five phases. Maybe because workers and officers of the State have helped us in implementing our policies.

If we're just experiencing some minor snow covering secondary roads, we'll switch several officers to our severe weather vehicles. The remainder will stay in their standard vehicles and handle service calls as usual.

If we ever had a disaster like that in New Jersey, we know they'd be sending us help also, ... It's just outstanding to see officers of this caliber willing to leave their families to go help people they don't even know.

Last year we had extra officers on the island, but these things escalate very, very quickly.

There are times in the evening when there is just one or two women employees, no police officers available in the building. So if a suspect came in with a weapon or firearm, our employees are very vulnerable to that type of situation.

When you build relationships with the students they feel more comfortable coming to you and saying, 'Hey, Johnny brought a gun to school,' ... It helps our officers be more effective and have more of an impact.

We need to make sure our officers are covered in case of a (liability),

We're seeking orders that will prevent any dissipation of assets or payouts to senior corporate officers past or present, and preventing any destruction of documents.

Singling out these individuals would send the wrong message to our junior officers about taking risks,

Most police officers are good cops and good people.

When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius came up with the idea of putting on Russian plays with the students to improve their language skills.