He's on point duty up and down there for the last ten minutes.

It was very inadequate at times, especially in winter if you were on point duty.

There was a policeman on point duty in the centre of Bristol for 20 years.

There were major road works and he didn't go back to point duty after the works ended.

In the following years the junction was covered by constables on point duty.

Once they'd passed a policeman standing incongruously by one of them as if he was on point duty in the wilderness.

They used to be controlled by a police officer on point duty and were once the busiest crossroads outside London.

Worse still was the permanent flapping of the scarecrow on point duty, directing traffic.

Thus Bristol discovered that policemen on point duty cause tarffic hold ups, not solve them.

Then, with the mechanoids taking point duty down the central aisle, they began to fan out in their search and securement formation.

At this point duty calls.

A policeman on point duty looked curiously at us as we swept past, and I wondered if he thought I was abducting her.

The NCO was now a private and the private was assigned permanent point duty.

The brunette gift wrapped a bomb and handed it to grateful squaddies on point duty in Northern Ireland.

There was a terrific traffic jam too miles of cars tooting like hell while the policeman on point duty concentrated on browbeating me."

Constables on point duty were jeered at and harassed by people until they retreated to the Town Hall, where the crowd taunted them to come out.

He checked for a moment on seeing Alleyn and then made an arresting gesre with the palm of his hand as if he were on point duty.

M. B. Point duty was pretty hard work, particularly on a busy junction - the Legs of Man, bottom of Scotland Road.

After Chris Childs pulled the Knicks within 76-68, Rose, now handling the point duties, drove and then dished out to Miller, who scored.

Some of the Zis cars have a special tone of horn that warns policemen on point duty that a V.I.P. is on his way.

Against the new ball, there was the familiar sight of Alastair Cook bedding in by flagging it past to the keeper like a traffic policeman on point duty.

Carrying unauthorized weapons was the quickest way Liz knew for a detective inspector to get back on points duty, but making use of what came to hand in an emergency was intelligent policing.

Every officer on point duty seemed to catch sight of the special number plate immediately, and without any fuss open the way when the lights were against it, or smooth its passage through congested traffic.

A flash of silver as the tiny crucifix was held aloft in Sabat's hand with the authority of a police officer on point duty commanding an oncoming flow of traffic to halt.

'That's true, Clough, but you don't have to have a brain to get stuck on point duty in Derby city centre for a few years,' George said, sweet reason in a shirt and tie.