police

police definitions

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

• Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government. 

• A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory. 

• A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement. 

• A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly 

• People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police. 

• Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty. 

• To clean up an area. 

• To enforce norms or standards upon. 

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