On the beat, little has changed over the course of the project.

I would like to see more police on the beat.

Or maybe he's just been too long on his beat.

Even so, he'd been on the political beat for years now.

She didn't know the man,I had never seen him on my beat.

I'd developed some good ones on my current beat, too.

This step is taken on the second beat of the bar.

They hadn't talked things over very much with the officer on the beat.

At any one time only 12% of officers are on the beat, he said.

Well the key thing to do is to try and get police officers out on the beat in the first place.