They described officers taking bribes from drunks and prostitutes and accepting gifts from businessmen and residents for providing extra surveillance around their properties.

Lt. Caputo described senior officers as being more worried about trivial matters than strategy.

Although now much diminished, the practice has not totally disappeared, the slang term 'Rupert' being used to describe such blue-blooded, usually British public school educated, officers.

Literally meaning "subordinate," subaltern is used to describe commissioned officers below the rank of captain and generally comprises the various grades of lieutenant.

Tacitus mentioned the phrase vir militaris in some of his passages in order to describe ordinary soldiers or junior officers.

City officials described dedicated officers who showed remarkable restraint even while being treated with disrespect by the people they were sworn to protect.

Taylor concluded his criticism of South Yorkshire Police by describing senior officers in command as "defensive and evasive witnesses" who refused to accept any responsibility for error.

He described officers who needed and appreciated the support of others but - at some level - resented that support because it conjured up their feelings of victimization.

General Lafayette visited Marietta years later and described these pioneers and former officers: "They were the bravest of brave.

The affidavit describes senior officers as being closely involved in the company's cost reporting system.