The head of the police force of a county or other region.
〈英〉郡警察局局长；地区警察局局长
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Meanwhile, the chief constable's vision for community policing across the county was given a warm welcome by forum members.
The list of delegates included council chief executives, health officials, police chief constables and minority group leaders.
Copies of the study are now in the hands of all chief constables in Scotland, the Police College and the Scottish Police Federation.
I would love there to be more traffic police, but chief constables have to work within their budgets.
Residence is therefore a matter which goes to the jurisdiction of a particular chief constable in the exercise of his statutory powers.
And if chief constables are given greater flexibility, we may well see police staff numbers grow at the expense of police officer numbers.
It must hold the chief constable and police service publicly to account.
So he proposes to devolve most policing issues to newly elected local police authorities, with the independence of chief constables enshrined in statute.
Senior councillors, residents and police officers have welcomed the chief constable's statement.
Neighbors soon learned that reporting policemen to their chief constables for unseemly conduct was an effective way to force police families to change their behavior or move.
A police magazine has been recalled after the chief constable said a cartoon on the front was offensive.
Ministers also announced that foreign policemen would be able to become chief constables for the first time.
A chief constable would sack a police officer for breaking the law.
A spokeswoman for Humberside police said the chief constable was in his office today in full uniform.
Damages are paid out of the police fund, not by the chief constable personally.
The local police authority battled to keep the chief constable in office until the last possible moment.
The responsibility for taking executive action on the intelligence remained with the Special Branch and the chief constables under the authority of the home secretary.
Scottish chief constables could take the initiative in their regions and could do that if they wanted to.
The service was supported by all police staff associations in the UK with chief constables and police authority members in attendance.
Yesterday, the chief constable and the police authority issued a joint statement in a fresh bid to quell the outcry.