A notoriously inefficient force of fifty officers patrolled the capital by day.

Paramilitary and police forces patrolled the capital today to quell scattered violence, including bombings, as a general strike intended to disrupt elections Thursday began.

Other forces patrolled the streets and guarded gas stations to prevent the students from taking vehicles and looting gasoline.

Israeli forces re-entered towns that were supposed to be Palestinian-ruled and patrolled.

On Friday, eight pilgrims were shot in drive-by shootings, though American and Iraqi forces patrolled nearby.

By the end of the strike, police and military forces patrolled the streets, and San José appeared as if under a state of siege.

That force patrolled the river protecting Union waterborne communications between the nation's capital and the port cities of the divided nation during the Civil War.

Before the war began on January 16, 1991, Canada's naval forces patrolled the central Persian Gulf.

Ordered to search for and destroy enemy ships and landing craft, the force patrolled primarily north of the island.

Special forces patrolled the streets, where shops were closed yesterday in part to mark the Muslim Eid al-Fitr festival.