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Meaning police meaning

What does police mean?
Definitions in simple English

police Noun

— The police are the government force who enforce laws, prevent crime, stop and arrest criminals, regulate traffic, help maintain public order, and help with emergencies. When we saw the man take the money, we called the police. The police car stopped the truck that was driving too fast. New Zealand Police took stolen guns, money, and cars, after searching a homes in the city of Auckland. — The police means the city government department that is concerned with enforcing laws and helping with emergencies. The Police Department there replaced the previous system of having volunteers keep the city safe.

police

— noun (= law) the force of policemen and officers the law came looking for him — verb (= patrol) maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol

Synonyms police synonyms

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police English » English

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Topics police topics

What do people use police to talk about?
Social behavior Government Government functions

Police
Social behavior

Law
Social behavior Conflict War Military organization

Soldier
Daily life Clothing

Clothes for special people
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Things done to animals
Work and occupation Working with buildings

Building

Conjugation police conjugation

How do you conjugate police?

police · verb

Examples police examples

How do I use police in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The police is searching for an escaped prisoner.
The police took immediate action to deal with the riot.
The police arrested the suspect.
We should call the police.
Police dogs are trained to obey without hesitation.
The police found a dead body in an abandoned car near the park.
I'll call the police!
Call the police.
I don't want to call the police.
The police found a body washed up on the beach near here.
The police officer wrote Tom a ticket.
Did the police ever question you?
The police can't find them.
The police can't find him.
The police will get you to find the bullets.
Call the police!
In case of emergency, call the police.
The police officer on duty sensed an elderly man coming up behind him.
Some brave passengers caught the pickpocket and turned him over to the police.
White was denounced to the police as a spy.
Bob was always in a tight spot with the police.
The hotel telephone is in the hall and Harriet is trying to ring the police now.
He ran away at the sight of a police patrol.
How can I get to the police station?
Not knowing what to do, I telephoned the police.
Not knowing what to do, we telephoned the police.
The riot was soon put down by the police.
Ray was willing to corroborate Gary's story, but the police were still unconvinced that either of them were telling the truth.
In case of an emergency, call the police.
The robber aimed his gun at the police officer.
We finally decided to give him over to the police.
I need a police car.

Movie subtitles

Thanks to that, the cooperation with the police and unions are in shambles.
Uh no, uh, shouldn't you call the police and see if we can get our bags back?
Oho, the police.
The police are in Kampala, two days' drive away.
This is a murder investigation, and we're the murder police.
Why don't you take him to the police?
There are no reports of a missing person matching her description on any police records.
We've got airport police covering that off with Immigration.
I do not need to be airing this issue with the police.
Apart from wilful damage, disorderly behaviour and assault of a police officer?
Peter, that is the concern of the police.
The police are investigating the accident and her car has been impounded until further notice.
He asked that you call in the police station with your documents.
Stop acting like the morality police.
Well, I remind you of the Doppler effect that everybody knows from a passing police car or ambulance.
I'll call the police if he sets foot in here again.
General Blanco's body was found this morning. He was one of the most important men in the Federal Judicial Police in our country.
What happened? The police say they have a person of interest.
I found her body, called the police, and reported a missing person.
If he or any other person will bring the child to Police Headquarters the above reward will be paid.
No question asked. H. GRAFTON - Chief of Police.
At the police station, Ellie tries to free her fellow countryman.
I recommend that you go to the police station.
At the police station.
Police!
The Czarist police are not squeamish.
You have the right to consult to the lawyer, and have that lawyer present during any questioning. If you choose to talk to the police officer, you have the right to stop the interview at any time.
We should not be wasting valuable police resources on a dog, regardless of its relationship to the sister-in-law of the Mayor.
I'm on police business.
The police say they have a person of interest.
No, this bastard.this fucker. dare stab a police officer?
I should call the police!
I have a letter from the police commissioner.
This level is still not that dangerous but depending on the location there are areas without police, so be careful.

News and current affairs

For everyone else, a kind of state of emergency was proclaimed that has allowed state interference in essential civil rights. Controls at borders have become an ordeal for many, and police persecution now burdens quite a few.
Only when more parents, teachers, and community leaders behave likewise will recruitment of terrorists dry up and law-enforcement authorities receive full cooperation from the populations they police.
Sometimes even army and police vehicles are involved.
Donors have trained police and prosecutors and built courts and detention centers.
Sharon's timing may have been determined by his problems with police investigations into alleged corruption.
The Cup's organization has been exceptional (as was to be expected), with excellent police work giving hooligans hardly a chance.
In November, the Committee concluded that Germany had failed to police the Neumann Kaffee Gruppe regarding its complicity in the forced eviction of several villages in Uganda to make way for a large coffee plantation.
As long as Uncle Sam continues to police the world, his children won't grow up.
Milosevic's regime left behind crippled institutions, with large sections of the police and judiciary and many state-owned companies remaining under the control of Milosevic's clique.
But crime would not be as powerful as it is, and the police and judiciary would not be as corrupt, if Serbia's economy were in better shape.
Members of the religious police remain adamant that the country's Christian guests must continue to live according to strict Wahhabi rules of behavior.
Third, the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is supposed to police the non-proliferation system, is shamefully underfunded.
A high-level group on border and transport security is at work, and links between member states' police chiefs are strengthening.
Europol is performing a similar function with material derived from police work, and we are working to ensure synergy between these two efforts.
Controls at borders have become an ordeal for many, and police persecution now burdens quite a few.
Most people in the US know that if you talk back to the police, they will get nasty very fast.
Even in the most advanced and affluent societies, a vast concentrated effort is needed to preserve even minimal decency: think of locks, security alarms, police, courts, and prisons.
Gul, for example, complained to the police about her abusive in-laws, but she was returned to the family when some of their influential contacts intervened.
As for Sahar Gul, her case must be thoroughly investigated, and the police and judiciary must commit to bringing her torturers to justice.
This unconscionable fabrication was fully exposed only after Abacha's death and the spate of confessions that followed it by the police agents who actually committed the crime.
When police raided one place, copies emerged from other secure depots, to be sold in the streets by kamikaze youths who darted in and out of traffic offering the subversive contraband.
The tighter their controls on risk in banks, the more frontier police the regulators will need.
Meanwhile, our most fundamental institutions - schools, police, and the courts - must be re-engineered to reflect and respond to the diversity of our communities, which is now a fact of life.
Similarly, a few years ago, the world was shocked to learn that famous Italian writer Ignazio Silone had, in his youth, collaborated with the fascist police.
At least in the case of the Murdoch empire, it now appears that they pursue long and binding relationships with politicians and the police as well.
That is why he warned the cop, Sgt. James Crowley, a veteran of the Cambridge police force, not to mess with him.
A local man whose brothers all serve in the police force, a sports fan, and an amateur basketball coach, Crowley does not move in the same social circles as Gates.
In 1950, Kundera, then a 20-year-old Communist, reportedly denounced to the criminal police as a Western spy a man he had never met - a friend of his friend's girlfriend.
A benevolent God keeps the immigrant from being stopped by the police.

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