Thaksin Shinawatra, the larger-than-life former policeman and telecom billionaire, built up enormous power as prime minister in the early 2000s, incurring the disdain of royalists.
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Duncan McCargo,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Aug. 2026
You’ll be attacked in the street for that, the policeman appeared to be telling him.
Plus those cool copper/bronze accents all Wilderness models have.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
30 Aug. 2026
The detention of Brian Mundubile and Makebi Zulu on Thursday risks clouding Lusaka’s credentials as a relatively stable southern African democracy and denting investor confidence in Africa’s second-largest copper producer.
After testing what appears to be a faulty metal detector at the football field, the pigheaded space cop crashes Rushville’s town-hall meeting and is under the impression that its leader, Sheriff Kerry Kane, is talking about him.
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Siddhant Adlakha,
Vulture,
24 Aug. 2026
But, practically speaking, none of it is imaginable or executable without digital technologies that are fundamentally black-boxed, inscrutable to individual cops on the beat and institutional decision-makers alike.
Indeed, the iconic image of the unarmed British bobby was a product of this trust.
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Mark Sappenfield,
Christian Science Monitor,
11 June 2026
The great theme of the recent Tory conference was providing reassurance—putting more bobbies on the beat, building more hospitals, raising the minimum wage and otherwise spraying money all over the place.
Another 170 gendarmes, or law enforcement officers, have also been dispatched to the region to support the firefighting effort.
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Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
8 July 2026
Set in the lush forests and fields of northeastern France, this excitingly offbeat first feature from Sarah Arnold depicts a gory factional war between hunters and farmers, haves and have-nots, with one depressed fish-out-of-water gendarme caught in the middle.
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