1.   The group includes three sergeants, three plainclothesmen, two detectives and one officer, most of whom are dispatched in groups of three, four or five.

2.   The officers, including a sergeant, lasted more than two hours, the officials say, drinking and sharing stories before drifting home.

3.   The rest of the characters, including the sergeant who has been conferring with the lieutenant, have been generated by the computer.

4.   While the Army proclaims itself to be about teamwork, its soldiers, including its sergeants, compete against one another.

5.   All three, including one sergeant described as the ringleader, had been arrested, they said.

6.   Defence sources said the three, including one sergeant, had been arrested.