An imaginary police force that ensures that people dress according to fashion.

A police force operating in secrecy and outside the normal boundaries of law and hidden from the public, usually in support of a totalitarian government's political policies to suppress political dissent through the use of methods including intimidation, violence, and surveillance.

(chiefly Britain, dated) A telephone kiosk where members of the public may telephone the police; a few original boxes still exist in Britain, but they do not operate. The city of Glasgow in Scotland has new police boxes, which are not booths but computerised kiosks, that connect the caller to a police CCTV control-room operator.

An automobile used by a police officer when on duty.

A group that aims to control what other people think.

(law enforcement) Any police organization; a constabulary.

A building serving as the headquarters of a branch of the police force, and sometimes as a temporary place of confinement for offenders.

(US) A register, maintained by the desk sergeant, of people arrested or brought in for questioning to a police station; (UK) charge sheet. / (US) A newspaper column publishing highlights therefrom.

A line, often marked with yellow tape, demarcating a crime or accident scene and which bystanders are not supposed to cross. / A line of police officers standing guard.

plural of police officer