police force
Noun
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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
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