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I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.
William Peter Blatty

Meaning of "police procedural" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POLICE PROCEDURAL

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POLICE PROCEDURAL

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Police procedural is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES POLICE PROCEDURAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

police procedural

Police procedural

The police procedural is a subgenre of detective fiction which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. While traditional detective novels usually concentrate on a single crime, police procedurals frequently depict investigations into several unrelated crimes in a single story. While traditional mysteries usually adhere to the convention of having the criminal's identity concealed until the climax, in police procedurals, the perpetrator's identity is often known to the audience from the outset. Police procedurals depict a number of police-related topics such as forensics, autopsies, the gathering of evidence, the use of search warrants and interrogation.

Definition of police procedural in the English dictionary

The definition of police procedural in the dictionary is a novel, film, or television drama that deals realistically with police work.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POLICE PROCEDURAL

police department
police dog
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police force
police headquarters
police helicopter
police inspector
police intervention
police marksman
Police Motu
police office
police officer
police presence
police protection
police record
police service
police state
police station
police wagon
police work

WORDS THAT END LIKE POLICE PROCEDURAL

agricultural
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extradural
horticultural
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multicultural
mural
natural
neural
plural
procedural
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supernatural
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unprocedural

Synonyms and antonyms of police procedural in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «police procedural» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POLICE PROCEDURAL

Find out the translation of police procedural to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of police procedural from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «police procedural» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

警察程序
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

procedimiento policial
570 millions of speakers

English

police procedural
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रक्रियात्मक पुलिस
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الشرطة الإجرائية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

полиция процессуальное
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

polícia processual
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পুলিশ উপস্থিতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

procédure policière
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kehadiran polis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Polizei Verfahrens
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

手続き警察
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

절차 경찰
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngarsane polisi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cảnh sát về thủ tục
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போலீஸ் பிரசாரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोलीस उपस्थिती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Polis varlığı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

police procedural
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

policja proceduralne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

поліція процесуальне
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

poliție procedural
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αστυνομία διαδικαστική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

polisie prosedure
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

polis procedur
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

politiet prosessuelle
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of police procedural

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POLICE PROCEDURAL»

The term «police procedural» is quite widely used and occupies the 53.162 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about police procedural

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QUOTES WITH «POLICE PROCEDURAL»

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William Peter Blatty
I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLICE PROCEDURAL»

Discover the use of police procedural in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to police procedural and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Police Procedural
This kind of narrative is customarily called the "police procedural" story. And it is the subject of this book. Though there has been numberless writers of these stories, there has never been a book of criticism before.
George N. Dove, 1982
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Police Procedural: A Writer's Guide to the Police and How ...
Offers mystery writers information about police administration, the structure of a detective division, the rules of evidence, the investigation of crimes, arrest procedures, interrogation, and the courts
Russell L. Bintliff, 1993
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A reader's guide to the police procedural
As with previous volumes in this series detailed cross-reference listings, including Pseudonyms, Creators and Series Characters, and Periods, Locations, and Setting of the stories, as well as the addition of chapters on novels featuring ...
Jo Ann Vicarel, 1995
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Places for Dead Bodies
The police procedural brought more realism to the mystery yarn. Unlike the heroes of Doyle, Christie, Chandler, Hammett, or Spillane, the police detective was not superhuman. He had to abide by rules and regulations, not all clients were ...
Gary J. Hausladen, 2010
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Crime Fiction
What the series does have in common with the police procedural as it developed in America, and as it appeared on television in such series as NYPD Blue, is an urban setting, and this emphasis on the modern city is clearly drawn from ...
John Scaggs, 2005
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Dick Tracy and American Culture: Morality and Mythology, ...
It is also a significant component of the world of mystery fiction — specifically the mystery formula deemed the "Police Procedural." Further, Dick Tracy should not be denied status as legitimate illustrative art, and it should not be excluded in ...
Garyn G. Roberts, 1993
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Anatomy of Murder: Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction
9 THE POLICE PROCEDURAL AND SERIAL KILLER FICTION /. The Police Procedural The city in these pages is imaginary. The people, the places are all fictitious. Only the police routine is based on established investigatory technique.
Carl Darryl Malmgren, 2001
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Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Detective Fiction: Essays on the ...
Dove, The Police Procedural, 47. He further elaborates the kinds of “real-life” techniques that frequently constitute the “procedural” components of police novels (56–64). If, as Dove argues, the police procedural strives to be the most plausible ...
Renée W. Craig-Odders, Jacky Collins, Glen S. Close, 2006
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An Introduction to the Detective Story
This whole problem becomes even more acute with the latest manifestation of the detective story, the police procedural. Police procedurals, to be sure, build upon earlier forms of the detective story. They owe much to the scientific story, the ...
LeRoy Panek, 1987
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The Guide to United States Popular Culture
Louise Conley Jones Police Procedural refers to the subgenre of mystery and detective fiction in which the mystery is solved by the police as part of their professional duties. Critics agree that the first police procedural is Lawrence Treat's V As ...
Ray Broadus Browne, Pat Browne, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POLICE PROCEDURAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term police procedural is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Castle' season 8 spoilers: Things have to change for Rick and Kate …
Entertainment Weekly reports that actor, Sunkrish Bala, will have a recurring role in the police procedural drama. Bala plays the role of Vikram ... «Ecumenical News, Jul 15»
2
Hannibal Season 3 – Episode 8 Review
The show has also returned to the police procedural format after its adventure through Italy in Season 3's first half. Unlike the previous seasons ... «Flickering Myth, Jul 15»
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'Major Crimes' season 4 spoilers: Reopening of case causes …
Problems will beset the entire division while working with a potentially corrupt operative in the upcoming episode of TNT's police procedural ... «ChristianToday, Jul 15»
4
TV Review: Rectify (3×03) – “Sown with Salt”
There's also the part where Daggett interviews Trey about George's death, which is straight out of a police procedural (John Mulaney describes ... «The Young Folks, Jul 15»
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Looking Forward To Jane Campion and Elizabeth Moss's 'Top Of …
What's most exciting is that it's not your run-of-the-mill police procedural. The millions of TV watchers who have become equipped at “solving” ... «Inverse, Jul 15»
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'Castle' Season 8 Spoilers: 'The Neigbors' star joins the series, helps …
A new character will be seen in the episodes of "Castle" season 8 as Toks Olagundoye joins to cast of the ABC police procedural. She will be ... «Venture Capital Post, Jul 15»
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Books on the box: the top 10 TV remakes
Before The Wire, another American police procedural drama was documenting the violence and crime of the city of Baltimore, Maryland. «Irish Times, Jul 15»
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Meet the Authors of the Encyclopedia of Hypothetical Police …
Luke Burns: For a long time, we had a running joke where we'd try to come up with the most ridiculous police procedural we could imagine. «io9, Jul 15»
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Witnesses, Channel 4, review: 'creepier than a Nordic noir'
This new police procedural is not dissimilar from your everyday bleak, noirish crime drama. There's little here that we've not seen before: cold, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Sleepy Hollow Adds Shannyn Sossamon As Series Regular, Get …
With the exit of showrunner Mark Goffman, replacement Clifton Campbell, known from the underrated police procedural, The Glades, will be ... «Cinema Blend, Jul 15»

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