"If you have more weight, you have a better contact patch to get moving, but then you have that much more weight to stop, " he explains.

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When there is a complicated murder or, as happened recently, a turf war among drug dealers who had fled a better-policed city outside his patch, Mr Burbeck must draw officers away from the fight against bread-and-butter criminality.

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If you put 200 to 300 Intel boxes together, you better manage them closely If you have a security patch, you have to patch security across all 300 .

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Wigan, perhaps better used to the appalling conditions on their own patch which is also used by town's rugby league side, tried to do the majority of the pressing and they did look the better team for long spells.

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It has the local events Armstrong wants Patch to report, but also observations from friends, and photos that are better than any society pages.

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Better known as QE2, this program was designed to make darned sure that the soft patch ended as quickly as humanly possible.

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