"Using civilianization would allow the Mayor to get more police officers on the street fighting crime."

"That way, we can allow some of the police officers to be replaced through civilianization.

New Profile is a movement for the civilianization of Israeli society.

As the city's policing needs expanded, so did the continued civilianization of Court Services.

What people are looking for is civilianization, replacing police officers at their desks with civilians."

Well, the recent rally at City Hall to protest civilianization of the police review board became an exception.

His civilianization of fire headquarters hurt us immeasurably.

Mr. Ognibene, who aggressively fought civilianization, said he thought the new and old boards were not that different.

Mr. Giuliani never hid his antagonism toward civilianization.

This reverse civilianization is expensive.

The board's own findings show that the current system is so flawed that even those who brought civilianization to the city are questioning their original optimism.

Precinct commanders have been given more control over staff deployment, 150 cars have been taken away for personal use and a civilianization study is under way.

But Mr. Leffler added, "In terms of getting more police on the street as a result of civilianization, they have not delivered."

Anticipated Increase Mr. Dinkins yesterday mentioned the same process of "civilianization" as a source for the new police officers he would hire for his program.

In 1997 several cadres from the Central Luzon committee was accused of sowing factionalism and "civilianization" of the NPA units.

But another key element of the program was "civilianization" - hiring more civilians, who are generally paid far less than officers, to free officers from support duties and put them on patrol.

The civilianization of several PLA corps and internal security units reduced the size of the PLA and the scope of its involvement in civilian affairs.

Overall these trends, Janowitz argued, resulted in a convergence between military culture and civil society; in other words, the civilianization of the military and the militarization of civil society.

He appeared to be advocating a reversal of the process by which military officers were appointed to key posts since the mid-1960s, by calling for the civilianization of a greater proportion of bureaucratic positions.

Convergence theory postulated either a civilianization of the military or a militarization of society However, despite this convergence, Janowitz insisted that the military world would retain certain essential differences from the civilian and that it would remain recognizably military in nature.

The city's Office of Management and Budget found that with 36 more civilians to be hired this year, technically the department will have reached the goal of hiring 1,220 "civilianization positions," although attrition and other variables have reduced the number who have actually relieved police officers for enforcement.

He also sent a warning to the powerful Patrolmen's Benevolent Association that if it insisted on approval in Albany of a new collective bargaining mechanism that would lead to more generous labor contracts, he would not hesitate to push civilianization and cut the police force even further.

Dellums's administration negotiated the passage of a new police contract which was especially noteworthy, as it broke the Oakland Police Officers Association's opposition to the civilianization of certain OPD positions which were previously staffed by "sworn," uniformed police officers, with concomitant payrolls and police academy training costs.