An ideology or political practice that favors extensive, especially oppressive, policing.

That can be policed.

simple past tense and past participle of self-police

simple past tense and past participle of tone police

The police department charged with patrolling harbours and waterways by boat.

(informal, derogatory) Any person or group crusading for a particular usage or omission within a language; also called language cops, tongue troopers.

A unit of a military organization whose duty is to police the organization. They are in charge of law enforcement on military property, and of military personnel.

A unit of the civil police who are specifically trained to serve duty on horseback. Their duties can be ceremonial, or often for crowd control, and to police areas of difficult access or wilderness areas.

A unit of the police specifically trained to deal with rioting crowds. They use special equipment for personal defense as well as for crowd control and dispersal.

A subgenre of crime fiction which portrays the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. Unlike in other types of crime fiction, the perpetrator may be known at the outset of the story.