policenoun/pəˈliːs/

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  governmentlaw-enforcementA 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.

  • There are nine Principles of Police: ... 7 To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen, in the interests of community welfare and existence.
  • ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?
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  historicalgovernmentlaw-enforcementA 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.

  • The Cook County Sheriff's Department has jurisdiction across most of Chicago but focuses on the unincorporated area and tasks like prisoner transport, leaving the rest to the Chicago Police Department.
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  governmentlaw-enforcementA 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.

  • Scotland Yard is, technically speaking, only the metropolitan police for Greater London but because of their importance they have special jurisdiction for some crimes across the United Kingdom.
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  governmentlaw-enforcementA 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.

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  The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer.

  • Pearlman: Very clever, Lester. You got it all figured, huh? Freamon: Me? I'm just a police.
  • This time it is the worst kind of call a murder police can get.
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  derogatoryPeople who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.

  • Who called the fashion police?
  • Then there were the taste police, who thought that this bulky modern machine was an inappropriate intrusion […]
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  slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsCleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.

  • Q. […] What did you do that day? — A. I was cleaning up around quarters. Q. You had been on guard and went on police duty? You were policing, cleaning up around the barracks? — A. Yes, sir.
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  archaicSynonym of administration, the regulation of a community or society.

  • The notion of ‘police’ – that is, rational administration – was seen as a historical force which could bring civilized improvement to societies.

policeverb/pəˈliːs/

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  To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).

  • Extra security was hired to police the crowd at the big game.
  • Smith returns in Men In Black 3 as a veteran agent of a secret organization dedicated to policing the earth’s many extraterrestrials.
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  slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsTo clean up an area.

  • This comes to him through the company housekeeping, for in the field each organization takes care of itself, cooks its own food, makes its own beds, does its own policing (cleaning up); […]
  • Q. […] What did you do that day? — A. I was cleaning up around quarters. Q. You had been on guard and went on police duty? You were policing, cleaning up around the barracks? — A. Yes, sir.
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  To enforce norms or standards upon.

  • to police a person's identity

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• policy
• polity
• civilization