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Special Branch

NOUN
  1. a government police department dealing with political security

How To Use Special Branch In A Sentence

  • Some of the papers contained highly sensitive details of informers and information supplied to Special Branch.
  • Others claim that the pithecanthropus was the end of a special branch of the apes; the Heidelberg man the last of another extinct branch; the Piltdown man and the Neanderthal man, likewise the last of other extinct species. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments
  • That was why the father, arriving from Berlin, had on his own initiative brought them an English governess; for the English are admitted by their continental friends to excel in this special branch of manners, while their continental enemies charge them with being "ostentatiously" well groomed and dainty. Home Life in Germany
  • Senior figures who may have had access to the intelligence material flowing to the special branch from informants have been asked if there is any information that could shed light on the episode.
  • Among the army of sleuths and secret agents that populated 1960s TV was a trio of detectives, employed by of a special branch of Interpol dedicated to solving seemingly unsolvable crimes.
  • There is fierce competition to join the Special Branch.
  • That is their excuse to send the Special Branch, traditionally regarded as MI5's footsoldiers, on a disgraceful fishing expedition.
  • The Metropolitan Police were so concerned, two Special Branch officers were detailed to accompany Galloway to a debate on US foreign policy at Cambridge on Thursday.
  • Special Branch ... Two men in boiler suits emerged from inside the rear van.
  • Separately, Special Branch detectives said this weekend that Garda surveillance had resumed on alleged members of the Provisionals in Dublin, including people associated with Sinn Féin.
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