"All I knew was that my dad said his uncle was murdered when he was a policeman, but we didn't know any of the details, " Mrs Hancox, from Quinton, said.

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We had a posthumous award to the daughter of the policeman which was moving.

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"I fought with the SPLA, and now we have won, " said Gony Thon, a policeman, joining in the impromptu dance on the street.

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My father did not stop at any of the police checkpoints on the road, and, once, a policeman gestured threateningly with his gun as we sped past.

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The police can't do everything at once, and you simply cannot have a policeman on every street corner - yet we all have massive expectations of the police.

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In Canada we saw that one foolish remark could spark a movement: after a Toronto policeman declared that women should stop dressing as sluts to avoid being assaulted there were large rallies (first in Canada and then in other countries) in which women purposely dressed provocatively as part of a movement.

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"We have 25 dead from yesterday's attacks in Ganye which included a chief prison warder, a policeman and a prominent politician, " Adamawa state police chief Mohammed Ibrahim was quoted by AFP news agency as saying.

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The spokesman added that the remaining three pieces - two large scale works called One Summer's Day We Went on a Trip to New Brighton and We Have Arrived at Central Station and a "small, rather unusual painting" entitled Miss, said the Policeman, 'And where be you going at this time of night' - would be shown at a later date.

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