police work
police investigation | the investigation of criminal activities |
| police action | a local military action without declaration of war, against violators of international peace and order |
German shepherd
German shepherd dog
German police dog
alsatian | breed of large shepherd dogs used in police work and as a guide for the blind |
| police dog | any dog trained to assist police especially in tracking |
cruiser police cruiser
patrol car
police car
prowl car
squad car | a car in which policemen cruise the streets, equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters |
| police boat | a boat used by harbor police |
police station
police headquarters
station house | a station that serves as headquarters for police in a particular district, serves as a place from which policemen are dispatched and to which arrested persons are brought |
police van
police wagon
paddy wagon
patrol wagon
wagon black Maria | van used by police to transport prisoners |
| frontier | an undeveloped field of study, a topic inviting research and development, he worked at the frontier of brain science |
blotter
day book
police blotter
rap sheet
charge sheet | the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station |
police squad
squad | a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime |
| police department | the department of local government concerned with enforcing the law and preventing crime |
police
police force
constabulary
law | the force of policemen and officers, the law came looking for him |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RCMP
Mounties | the federal police force of Canada |
military police
MP | a military corps that enforces discipline and guards prisoners |
| secret police | a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition) |
| police academy | an academy for training police officers |
| police court | a court that has power to prosecute for minor offenses and to bind over for trial in a superior court anyone accused of serious offenses |
frontier settlement
outpost | a settlement on the frontier of civilization |
| police state | a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police) |
| frontier | an international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary |
| frontier | a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country, the individualism of the frontier in Andrew Jackson's day |
| police precinct | a precinct in which law enforcement is the responsibility of particular police force |
| Triple Frontier | the border area where Argentina and Brazil and Paraguay meet, an active South American center for contraband and drug trafficking and money laundering, a suspected locale for Islamic extremist groups |
Alaska
Last Frontier
AK | a state in northwestern North America, the th state admitted to the union, Alaska is the largest state in the United States |
captain police captain
police chief | a policeman in charge of a precinct |
| constable police constable | a police officer of the lowest rank |
detective
investigator tec
police detective | a police officer who investigates crimes |
kitchen police
KP | an enlisted person who is assigned to assist the cooks |
lieutenant
police lieutenant | an officer in a police force |
| police commissioner | a civil commissioner appointed to supervise the duties and discipline of the police |
policeman
police officer
officer | a member of a police force, it was an accident, officer |
police matron
policewoman | a woman policeman |
police sergeant
sergeant | a lawman with the rank of sergeant |
patrol
police | maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol |