noun
definition
A police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty instead of detection or supervision.
Examples of patrolman in a Sentence
It was patrolman Jack McCarty.
The harbor patrolman went on to tell how he scooped up several chunks of the metal from the beach and boarded the patrol boat.
Mr Gardiner joined the University on 9 October 1978 as a security patrolman.
I explained the situation briefly and the patrolman recognized I was the object of the call he'd just received from Jackson.
Patrolman Murphy drove me back to the Pacific Crest Inn, this time in an unmarked car.
There was nothing more I could do here absent Howie so I rounded up patrolman Murphy and asked him to return me to the hospital.