"It is a big sum of money in the context of a police force where I want to get more uniformed officers back on the beat - it is a stark choice that has to be made, " he said.

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Its civilian and uniformed leaders have exercised disproportionate influence in joint deliberations while Air Force leaders were being purged and replaced.

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The bombing is also a nice illustration of the fact that Putin is not, as rather uniformed people occasionally suggest, some kind of omnipotent and omniscient force of malevolence, and that his grip on the country is highly variable (very tight in some places, exceedingly weak in others).

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The government also plans to create a new breed of uniformed civilian workers who would have the power to use "reasonable force" to detain suspects.

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Small retailers, who employ workers from the unorganized labour force, are estimated to extract three times the productivity of a uniformed employee at a supermarket.

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According to the United Nations, its peacekeeping force in Ivory Coast as of April 30 included nearly 11, 000 uniformed personnel, as well as several hundred international civilian personnel, local staff and volunteers.

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