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Police squad   /pəlˈis skwɑd/   Listen
Police squad

noun
1.
A small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime.  Synonym: squad.





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"Police squad" Quotes from Famous Books



... establishment of a "Morals Court" of vaguely large scope. Among the other recommendations of the Commissioners—and there are ninety-seven such recommendations—we find the establishment of a municipal farm, to which prostitutes can be "committed on an indeterminate sentence"; a "special morals police squad"; instructions to the police to send home all unattended boys and girls under sixteen at 9 p.m.; no seats in the parks to be in shade; searchlights to be set up at night to enable the police to see what the public are doing, ...
— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis


Words linked to "Police squad" :   vice squad, squad, SWAT team, SWAT squad, Special Weapons and Tactics squad, Special Weapons and Tactics team, platoon, team


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