police force
C3345
concept
A police force is an organized body of officers empowered by a government to maintain public order, enforce laws, prevent and investigate crime, and protect citizens and property.
Aliases (22)
- military police force ×8
- gendarmerie ×6
- police department ×4
- collaborationist police force ×3
- law enforcement organization ×2
- British auxiliary police force ×1
- armed police force ×1
- collaborationist police ×1
- colonial police force ×1
- national gendarmerie ×1
- national police agency ×1
- police service ×1
- policja polityczna ×1
- public transit police agency ×1
- regional police force ×1
- riot control and mobile reserve force ×1
- specialized police force ×1
- territorial police force ×1
- traffic police ×1
- transit police department ×1
- uniformed police force ×1
- volunteer law enforcement personnel ×1
Instances (54)
- RAF Police ("military police force")
- Blue Police (Polish police under German command) ("collaborationist police force")
- Eastern Bloc security forces ("law enforcement organization")
- Royal Ulster Constabulary
- Military Gendarmerie of Poland ("military police force")
- Isle of Man Constabulary
- New York City auxiliary police officers ("volunteer law enforcement personnel")
- Transit Bureau ("public transit police agency")
- Carabineros de Chile ("gendarmerie")
- National Police Agency of Japan ("national police agency")
- Supreme Court Police
- Bermuda Police Service
- Puerto Rico Police Bureau
- Bavarian police ("regional police force")
- Metropolitan Police Service ("territorial police force")
- Interpol ("law enforcement organization")
- People's Armed Police ("armed police force")
- Traffic Police ("traffic police")
- Guardia di Finanza ("military police force")
- Carabinieri ("gendarmerie")
- General Directorate of Tourism and Antiquities Police ("specialized police force")
- Metro Transit Police Department ("transit police department")
- Internal Military Service ("military police force")
- Palestine Police Force ("colonial police force")
- Vatican Gendarmerie
- Medina Police Department ("police department")
- Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department ("police department")
- Greek police
- Greek gendarmerie ("national gendarmerie")
- National Gendarmerie ("military police force")
- Royal Military Police ("military police force")
- Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement ("collaborationist police force")
- Policja Granatowa
- Polish Police of the General Government ("collaborationist police force")
- German Ordnungspolizei ("uniformed police force")
- pre-war Polish State Police
- Cockrell Hill Police Department ("police department")
- National Republican Guard ("gendarmerie")
- Ministerstwo Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego ("policja polityczna")
- Israel Border Police ("gendarmerie")
- Prussian municipal police
- Royal Irish Constabulary
- Black and Tans ("British auxiliary police force")
- RUC
- United States Mint Police
- Beverly Hills Police Department ("police department")
- Protectorate gendarmerie