police

1. The force of policemen and officers (synset 108226608)
   "the law came looking for him"
   is a type of:

   • force, personnel - group of people willing to obey orders
   • law enforcement agency - an agency responsible for insuring obedience to the laws
   subtypes:

   • european law enforcement organisation, europol - police organization for the European Union; aims to improve effectiveness and cooperation among European police forces
   • gendarmerie, gendarmery - French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively
   • mutawa, mutawa'een - religious police in Saudi Arabia whose duty is to ensure strict adherence to established codes of conduct; offenders may be detained indefinitely; foreigners are not excluded
   • mounties, rcmp, royal canadian mounted police - the federal police force of Canada
   • new scotland yard, scotland yard - the detective department of the metropolitan police force of London
   • secret police - a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition)
   • schutzstaffel, ss - special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps
   • posse, posse comitatus - a temporary police force
   member holonym: officer, police officer, policeman - a member of a police force
   same as: constabulary, law, police force

1. Maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol (synset 202460361)
   is a type of: guard - to keep watch over
   same as: patrol

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