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.

Indicates that the speaker is going to call the police, presumably to counter actions from the interlocutor.

The practice of assigning police resources to deal with otherwise unattended urban decay, suggested by broken windows theory.

plural of police search advisor

(UK) A police officer responsible for the planning, organisation, management and control of crime, missing person and counter-terrorism searches

(US, politics, law enforcement) A phrase used to counter "black lives matter", rallying people to defend police officers and their use of lethal force in carrying out their duties.

Synonym of community policeman

A member of a riot police.

(slang) To clean up spent shell casings left behind after firing a gun, usually so the casings cannot be used to identify the gun.