At present, many police forces share their boundaries with city or county governments, which help to set crime-fighting priorities and funding levels.

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In light of all this, concludes Mr Bobbitt, it is time to accept that warfare is changing in ways that make it necessary to blur the old boundaries between police behaviour and military campaigns, and the laws of peace and war must change accordingly.

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It is closed to traffic and police have retreated beyond its boundaries.

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According to the Ministry of Defence's own database - some of which has been made public under freedom of information - and according to the government's own mapping, the fire station, the police station and the security office are all outside the officially designated boundaries of the settlement, on privately-owned Palestinian land.

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"The geographical boundaries were redrawn in 1974 - previously Rochdale was a part of Lancashire Police, but post-1974 it became part of Greater Manchester Police, " he said.

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The law also enabled the formation of a nationwide interoperable wireless network for our first responders, so that police, fire, and rescue agencies can communicate with each other seamlessly across state and local boundaries, with spectrum allocated to public safety spectrum being made available to commercial providers when not in use by first responders.

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Merseyside Police are reminding festival-goers that drinking will only be permitted on the street within the festival boundaries.

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Amid scenes of high drama with riot police surrounding the building, on 25 September the Constitutional Court rejected the government's effort to redraw the political boundaries.

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