detective constable , DC (abbreviation)

The three of them, with four detective constables, would set the ball rolling.

She'd scarcely crossed the threshold when one of the detective constables started speaking.

Bergerac also had several sidekicks, who were generally detective constables.

Uniformed men and Wycliffe's detective constables were questioning the very few people who actually lived in the street.

Sergeant Bourne, his administrative assistant, was there with three detective constables, doing their best to make it look like home.

(Oh you should meet the detective constables that I know...)

Your first job will be to take one of these detective constables and, starting from Riddle's house, try to trace his movements on Friday evening.

She swung round rather abruptly, and recognised the young man as one of the detective constables who had been haunting the Lodge all day.

Two detective constables walked in and listened eagerly to the latest gossip, glancing over to the superintendent with new animation in their eyes.

'Like detective constables,' said the inspector generously.

This situation remained until 1936 when three Detective Constables were recruited and a Detective Sergeant.

The two detective constables faced a South Wales police gross misconduct hearing last week in respect of four potential breaches of professional behaviour.

The investigations team is headed by a Detective Sergeant and staffed by four Detective Constables.

In 1904 the force appointed its first Chief Inspector of Detectives, and the first Detective Constables were appointed.

He was usually assisted by one or two detective inspectors, a first class detective sergeant, and a number of detective sergeants and detective constables.

The Special Branch has its own Detective Constables, Head Constables, Inspector rankings and superior police officer rankings.

Jasper Carrott and Robert Powell play the bumbling detective constables Bob Louis and David Briggs.

'Sergeant Smith and Detective Constables Dixon and Fowler came down with Mr Scales, sir.'

Gorrie liked to say he'd raised her from a pup, picked her from the pool of detective constables and made her into a true solver of crimes.

For the meantime, DI Gorrie and the rest of CID were expected to make do by using "pooled resources"-Russell's personal euphemism for the detective constables.

Mr. X was interviewed by Detective Constables Graham Toogood and Paul Fish, who believed that, had he been pressed, he would have confessed to White's murder.

Detective Constables Rowse and Calder and Detective Sergeant Bourne are up before the next Promotion Board and your reports haven't gone in yet.'

As they had stumbled out of the incident room, new names were already being scribbled up on the action boards with blue marker pens - yet more people to be trawled by the team of detective constables.