English-Dutch translations for patrol

  • patrouille
    We zullen blijven werken aan gezamenlijke patrouilles. We will continue to work on joint patrols. Ten eerste is er vorige week een begin gemaakt met patrouilles in de Middellandse Zee. Firstly, last week saw the start of patrols in the Mediterranean. Het overdreven accent op wets- en ordehandhaving, patrouilles en hekken met prikkeldraad zijn nooit sterker dan het verlangen van deze mensen om te ontsnappen. The overemphasis on law and order, the patrols and the barbed wired fences will not overcome their desire to escape.
  • patrouilleren
    Ik heb commissaris Frattini nogmaals horen zeggen dat het noodzakelijk is te patrouilleren langs onze kusten. I have heard Commissioner Frattini confirm the need to patrol our coastlines. Dan zal er een tweede missie vertrekken naar Malta om daar te helpen en te patrouilleren in de Middellandse Zee. A second European mission will then go to the aid of Malta and patrol the Mediterranean. Het eerste doel van het patrouilleren op zee is mensenlevens te redden en niet oorlog te voeren tegen de immigranten. The primary purpose of the patrol boats is to save people’s lives at sea and not to wage war on immigrants.
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Definition of patrol

  • A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts
  • The guards who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol
  • A unit of a troop, usually defined by certain ranks or age groups within the troop
  • To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat

Examples

  • a customs patrol
  • a fire patrol
  • to patrol a frontier
  • to patrol a beat

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