Assertion: police's department | /r/MadeOf | merger
Facets:
value: between local agencies
type: LOCATION
value: usually
type: DEGREE
value: in efforts
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Metropolitan departments have usually been formed by a merger between local agencies, typically several local police departments and often the local sheriff's department or office, in efforts to provide greater efficiency by centralizing command and resources and to resolve jurisdictional problems, often in communities experiencing rapid population growth and urban sprawl, or in neighboring communities too small to afford individual police departments.