Explore Police through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like force or personnel. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
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Police meaning
- A constituted body of officers representing the civil authority of government, empowered to maintain public order and safety, enforce the law, and prevent, detect, and investigate crime.
- A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.
Synonyms of Police
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Using Police
- The main meaning on this page is: A constituted body of officers representing the civil authority of government, empowered to maintain public order and safety, enforce the law, and prevent, detect, and investigate crime. | A constituted body of officers representing the civil authority of government, empowered to maintain public order and safety, enforce the law, and prevent, detect, and investigate crime. | A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.
- Useful related words include: police force, constabulary, law, force.
- Possible Dutch translations are: politie.
- In the example corpus, police often appears in combinations such as: the police, of police, police officers.
Example sentences (20)
When police pounced on him at the identified residence, the suspect refused to open and as soon police used minimum force to gain entry into the house, the suspect opened fire at the police, injuring police two police officers.
Preventive Police, also called Uniform Branch, Uniformed Police, Uniform Division, Administrative Police, Order Police, or Patrol, designates the police that patrol and respond to emergencies and other incidents, as opposed to detective services.
Furthermore, the Provincial Police Region 5 Commissioner, Pol. Lt. Gen. Piya Tawichai, ordered the transfer of the five police personnel of the Mae Sai police station to inactive positions at the Provincial Police Operation Centre.
Police cadet Samantha Nigro asks police officer and instructor Ryan Koons a question during Police Cadets vehicle-stop training Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, at the Allentown Police Academy.
Also, a consultant on the Police Reform regulation, Adesina Oke said there is need to question the structure of the police with some arguing for the creation of state police while there is also increasing resistance to the idea of a state police.
Police say they arrested a 22-year-old woman for obstructing police work and assaulting a police officer, as well as two men, 22 and 28, both for obstructing police work.
The crackdown against it - dubbed "Operation Cookie Monster" - was led by the FBI with the assistance of AFP, NSW Police Force, Victoria Police, Queensland Police Service, Western Australia Police Force and policing agencies in several other countries.
Imagery of fresh cases of “less-lethal” police violence compelled more people, enlivened by outrage or surprise upon seeing police brutality as a repeated police reaction to people protesting police brutality, to join the demonstrations’ swelling ranks.
In New York, Mike O’Meara, the president of the New York Police Benevolent Association, defended the police using the police-as-victim trope, politicians and the media had unfairly attacked the police.
Accra, Feb. 28, GNA – Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Samuel Kwesi Ofori, Accra Regional Police Operations Commander on Thursday said “I had nothing against Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) George Lysander Asare, East Legon Police Commander”.
Accra, May 2, GNA – Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) David Eklu, the Director-General, Public Affairs, Ghana Police Service has advised journalists to first report any Police attack on them to the nearest Police Station before going to the press.
Indo Tibet Border Police, Shashastra Seema Bal, Sikkim Armed Police, Sikkim Police (Male and Female Platoon), Sikkim Home Guard and Civil Defence, NCC, Sikkim Police Pipe and Brass Band and the Army Band participated in the march past.
The gang had 7 cases registered against them under Pahadi Shareef Police Station, Chandrayangutta Police Station, Langer House Police Station and Humayun Nagar Police Station limits.
Ford’s two current Police Interceptor vehicles together have a 65-percent share of the police market, while the current Police Interceptor Utility (a brawny Explorer) has a 52-percent share of the whole police-vehicle market.
Former St. Paul Police Chief William Finney will lead an audit of the police department's K-9 unit, which the mayor and police chief called for after a police dog bit a bystander last week.
In readiness to honour the invitation of the Police to clear his name, Saraki, had sent his police Aide De Camp (ADC), Superintendent of Police Usman Dungunza, to pick up an invitation letter from the Police to allow him tell his side of the story.
The blast caused damage to the `dhaba’ but all police personnel inside the police station including SHO Rajesh Jasrotia and the cops in a police Gypsy parked outside the police station besides other people in the `dhaba’ and adjacent shops were safe.
Police The National Police departments are Public Order, Criminal Investigation, Traffic and Transport, Investigation and Inspection of Economic Activities, Taxation and Frontier Supervision, Riot Police and the Rapid Intervention Police.
The company's first public safety customers (all in the U.S. state of Illinois) included the Village of River Forest, Village of Bellwood Police Department, City of Evanston Police, Illinois State Highway Police, and Cook County (Chicago area) Police.
According to numbers presented during the meeting, police have arrested 572 protesters since the demonstrations began in January for disturbing the peace, not obeying police instructions or assaulting police officers.
Common combinations with police
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the police 82×
- of police 56×
- police officers 36×
- police department 32×
- police and 31×
- police station 31×
- police officer 18×
- state police 18×
- police force 18×
- police chief 18×