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Police force   /pəlˈis fɔrs/   Listen
Police force

noun
1.
The force of policemen and officers.  Synonyms: constabulary, law, police.






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"Police force" Quotes from Famous Books



... no regular indigenous military forces; French Armed Forces (including Army, Navy, Air Force, Gendarmerie); Police Force ...
— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... street, but they won't let me. I called the mayor on the telephone and demanded that he send over the fire department and sprinkle 'em, but he said he couldn't unless I'd turn in an alarm—had the nerve to tell me it would be against the city ordinances! What do you think of that, Phil? Guess the police force is under the bed at home. But I can wait. There's nothing like waiting. Take it from me that you'd better trot along to your tea. You're rather cute in that hat. I suppose it burnt ...
— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson

... police force were put out on sentry duty, as also four or five Kaili-kailis who had been taught at Cape Nelson to ...
— Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines • H. Wilfrid Walker

... Jewish intelligenzia and the Government was an undeniable fact. The "Crown rabbis" [1] and school teachers from among the graduates of the rabbinical schools of Vilna and Zhitomir played the role of Government agents who were apt to resort to police force in their fight against orthodoxy. Feeling secure beneath the protecting wings of the Russian authorities, they often went out of their way to hurt the susceptibilities of the masses by their ostentatious disregard of the Jewish religious ...
— History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II • S.M. Dubnow

... small blind thoroughfare in which had gathered a small and nervous-looking crowd and a few flurried policemen. Several of the windows were shattered and on the ground were three prostrate figures. One was dead, the others were badly wounded, and all three were members of the police force. ...
— The Uttermost Farthing - A Savant's Vendetta • R. Austin Freeman


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