NOUN
- a mobile group of trained people (police or executives or officials) able to move quickly in the case of emergencies
How To Use flying squad In A Sentence
- At the latter, another Scottish desk sergeant told me the head of the Scottish Flying Squad, who rejoiced in the name of Fletcher Catchpole, was celebrating his ‘collar’ in the next-door pub.
- Even the police themselves were mortally afraid of the Flying Squad.
- Detective Chief Inspector Pam Mace, head of Barnes Flying Squad, said: "I think this is the biggest reward that has ever been offered for a crime of this type.
- A man in Orem, Utah had the Homeland Security flying squad at his house because he'd planted a castor bean plant on his front lawn, prompting a neighbor or passing snitch to decide he was making ricin: Boing Boing
- His research is thorough and complete, even to the point of documenting the incomplete record keeping of German flying squadrons.
- One group of wounded World War I soldiers developed such speedy invalid carriages - known as whizz bangs - to propel them to race meetings that they became known locally as the 'flying squad'. Home | Mail Online
- Everyone does staggered hours and there is a'flying squad' of three consultants and an executive who cover holidays. Times, Sunday Times
- For the former Flying Squad officer it was one of the saddest murder inquiries of his career. The Jigsaw Man
- John O'Connor, a former Flying Squad commander at Scotland Yard, said that in "some cases" water cannon use was necessary. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- Flight-line personnel moved from OMS into the tactical flying squadrons.