A part-time auxiliary policeman, a reserve police officer, the way a National Guardsman is a part-time soldier,' Hunter had explained.

As one part-time policeman said, 'The regulars are all right, but there's definitely a difference between them and us.

The following is part of a conversation between two part-time policemen:

After the death of his father, William, a part-time policeman, his mother, Una, emigrated to England to find work settling in Handsworth, Birmingham.

The two teenagers stepped backward as a man wearing the arm-band of a part-time policeman went by.

He came to me when he was sixteen and asked if there was such a thing as a part-time policeman.

Its roads are 95% paved, and it includes a small police and fire department featuring three part-time policemen and four fire trucks.

The government aims to field 25,000 of these part-time policemen, dubbed 'hobby bobbies' by derisive full-timers, by 1994.

He's now a part-time policeman as well a dentist.

Among some of his recent opponents were a mailman, a teacher and a part-time policeman.