Riot police stand guard at many intersections, some of them carrying bayoneted rifles.
But now they have begun to rampage through towns as well, smashing windows, looting shops, destroying homes and terrorising the locals, while Mr Mugabe's police stand idly by.
Now, the 350 Marines in the New York Police Department stand ready to honor him when his body is found.
And by ordering the police to stand by and do nothing while so many laws are broken, the government has weakened respect for law and order.
He is now 15 years old and attends a New York City public high school where two armed police officers stand guard at the entrance and students need to go through a metal detector every day as they enter the building.
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The chief constable of Essex Police intends to stand down before the end of his contract, the BBC understands.
He also learned that it was smarter to stay behind the phalanx of riot police than to stand before them.
And to say they're not, then why come down to a police station and stand in line, knowing the chances are at least 50-50 that you're going to get blown up that day?
Happiest of all, in the French film manner, are the police, who stand at street intersections with their thumbs in their belts and beam paternally at everybody instead of looking stern and important, as they used to.
On Wednesday, officers using inflatable boats were checking waterways and river banks for clues as to the girls' whereabouts, and police divers were on stand-by.
No action is to be taken against a firm that provided illegal Taser weapons which Northumbria Police used during a stand-off with gunman Raoul Moat.
Asked about Botha's court performance and handling of the investigation, Phiyega said South Africa's police force "can stand on its own" compared to others around the world.
One of them, Aurora police Detective Alton Reed, took the stand again Wednesday and said he spoke only to an Aurora police sergeant about what he saw in the notebook.
The Police Federation had urged members of the public to stand "shoulder to shoulder" with the police.
They locked themselves in for six days and police were called to a stand-off between the gang and Mr Sherratt and his employees.
The teacher and her students were taken to the police station and forced to stand for hours with their hands on the wall.
Veteran Labour MPs Tony Lloyd and Alun Michael have resigned from the House of Commons so they can stand to be police and crime commissioners.
But despite a lifetime of public service when he decided to stand for the police and crime commissioner posts in south Wales last year he met criticism because of his teenage conviction.
Judge Garzon contended that Mr. Reznik had received payments from businessman Gennady Petrov, who Judge Garzon had earlier arrested in a nighttime raid, during which he, his wife and 10-year-old daughter were forced at gunpoint to stand naked while police officers ransacked their house.
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They re-occupied the building in March after being evicted in a stand-off with police.
Department Deputy Chief Michael Marino also testified Friday, the first of several police brass expected to take the stand.
In January 2010, Speight turned himself in after an all-night stand-off with police, who had surrounded the woods just outside Appomattox.
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Special constable Colin Skelton has announced he will stand in the Wiltshire police and crime commissioner election as an independent candidate.
Moat eventually shot himself following a six-hour stand-off with police.
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The remnants of Islamic rule still stand near the Islamic Police headquarters in Timbuktu, where fundamentalist police enforced seventh-century punishments: whippings for cigarette smoking, amputations for theft, and executions for adultery.
As their reason for not immediately arresting Zimmerman, police cited Florida's "stand your ground" law, which states that people who feel threatened don't have to retreat from danger and can use deadly force to protect themselves.
At its eight checkpoints, zealous secret police and UN peacekeepers' white jeeps stand by.
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About 20 loyalists carrying union flags, were allowed to walk through the centre of Londonderry after a stand-off with the police.
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