In October 2003, Vicki Hutcheson, who played a part in the arrests of Misskelley, Echols and Baldwin, but did not testify at the trial, gave an interview to the Arkansas Times in which she stated that every word she had given to the police was a fabrication.

By extension, the word manor is sometimes used in England to mean any home area or territory in which authority is held, often in a police or criminal context.

First attested in English c. 1530, the word police comes from Middle French police, in turn from Latin politia, which is the latinisation of the Greek πολιτεία ( politeia ), " citizenship, administration, civil polity ".

The first use of the word police (" Polles ") in English comes from the book " The Second Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England " published in 1642

The word, and the concept of police itself, was " disliked as a symbol of foreign oppression " ( according to Britannica 1911 ).

Before the 19th century, the first use of the word " police " recorded in government documents in the United Kingdom was the appointment of Commissioners of Police for Scotland in 1714 and the creation of the Marine Police in 1798 ( set up to protect merchandise at the Port of London ).

" bonnet ", a general word for headgear ), also " Pickelhelm ," was a spiked helmet worn in the 19th and 20th centuries by German military, firefighters, and police.

Examples of so-called kniferisms include a British television newsreader once referring to the police at a crime scene removing a ' hypodeemic nerdle '; a television announcer once saying that " All the world was thrilled by the marriage of the Duck and Doochess of Windsor " and that word regarding an impending presidential veto had come from " a high White Horse souse " ( instead of " a high White House source "); and during a live broadcast in 1931, radio presenter Harry von Zell accidentally mispronouncing US President Herbert Hoover's name, " Hoobert Heever.

Quickly word spread through the downtown Vancouver area that Gretzky was indeed the final torchbearer, and very soon a crush of people came running after the police escort to cheer Gretzky on and hopefully catch a glimpse of him carrying the torch to the outdoor cauldron.

In fact, police officers in Batman ’ s home of Gotham City have used the word " cape " as a shorthand for all superheroes and costumed crimefighters.

The police surveil Waingro in a hotel near Los Angeles International Airport, and Hanna attempts to bait McCauley into coming out of hiding by releasing Waingro's whereabouts to the network of bookies, bail bondsmen and snitches he hopes will spread the word.

The word is usually used in reference to a kind of fret in architecture, or to a badge or insignia used in military or police uniforms to indicate rank or length of service, or in heraldry and the designs of flags ( see flag terminology ).

As part of the change, the police service dropped the word " Royal " from everyday usage and adopted a new badge that included the crown, harp, and shamrock, an attempt at shared identification with both communities.

" In the second part of the episode " Who Shot Mr. Burns ", Wiggum is seen studying a police manual and misreading the word, " motive " as " mo-toive.

* In the TV show Castle it is revealed that Castle's safe word is " apples ", which he later uses when a police officer is jokingly pinching his nose.

All charges were based on the word of undercover officer Tom Coleman, a so called " gypsy cop " who made his living traveling through impoverished rural Texas offering to work undercover cheaply for short periods of time for underfunded police departments.

Some of the results are a little surprising: a smart young man dressed in a business suit holds a sign which reads " I'm desperate ", while a police officer has written the single word " Help !".

* Deka, a word in Japanese language holding the meaning police officer

" New York City detectives said the word was used by the suspects themselves to describe their actions to police.

Cam ' ron later issued an apology for his comments, calling it an " error in judgement ": " Where I come from, once word gets out that you've cooperated with the police that only makes you a bigger target of criminal violence.

Bigelow finishes telling his story at the police station and dies, his last word being " Paula.

In September 2012 UK Conservative Party Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell was reported using the word in an expletive-heavy tirade directed at police officers in Downing Street.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

'' ( The Grafin was partial to the word shall.

There was no doubt that Herr Schaffner meant every word of what he said.

Hot, that was the word, hot!!

Next day, word came that Miriam was not going through with the divorce ; ;

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

There was one particular word that troubled his conscience.

This was the Greek word most often translated as `` baptism ''.

Mr. Hearst's telegraphic code word for Victor Watson was `` fatboy ''.

That word was withheld when the need of it seemed the measure of his despair.

A little boy came to give the President his personal condolences, and the President gave word that any little boy who wanted to see him was to be shown in.

The word was that this too was part of an economy move on his part.

The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

Promptly their livestock was taken and according to Gorton the soldiers were ordered to knock down anyone who should utter a word of insolence, and run through anyone who might step out of line.

Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.

Fosdick insisted that a strong word was needed from Washington, and it was immediately forthcoming.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.