(law enforcement) Police force, especially a local or regional branch of a national police force.

(law) The inherent power, incident to sovereignty, of a state to regulate and exercise reasonable control over matters of public health, public morals, public safety, and in general, all things relating to the general welfare.

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

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

plural of police search advisor

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

(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.

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

A member of a riot police.

Synonym of community policeman