(figuratively, usually, ironic, _, &, _, mildly, _, pejorative) People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.
“Awful having the best performing staffed and paid NHS! Dreadful having 40% less crime and 21% more police than rUK Don’t start on the lowest child poverty that is reducing whilst increasing rUK! Highest educational outcomes, most teachers, free tuition! Disgraceful! #VoteSNP”
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Awful having the best performing staffed and paid NHS! Dreadful having 40% less crime and 21% more police than rUK Don’t start on the lowest child poverty that is reducing whilst increasing rUK! Highest educational…
“🚨 #BREAKING : INDIA'S RELIANCE HANDS OVER DOCUMENTS SOUGHT BY FEDERAL POLICE IN BRIBERY PROBE, EXEC GETS BAIL-COURT ORDER, AS PER REUTERS X”
“Police have released bodycam vision of the arrest of a man following a fatal crash at Woodford, north of Brisbane. #national”
“all police are ignorant therefore bastards but some police are to your face kind ignorant bastards if you're lucky but that doesn't change that they're all ignorant bastards”
“Police Activity on I-5 SB exit to SR 502 beginning at 11:53 pm on May 4, 2026 until further notice. Please use caution View on map”
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(police) A constituted body of officers representing the civil authority of government, empowered to maintain public order and safety, enforce the law, and prevent, detect, and investigate crime.
1943, Charles Reith, British Police and the Democratic Ideal, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.48625/page/n11/mode/2up pp. 3–4]:
“The X-ray of a car passenger who had her feet on the dashboard during a crash was shared by police as a warning against the dangerous move”
“I cannot emphasize enough how much I do not want my phone to police the volume at which I play music. Why does surveillance tech need to be everywhere in everything?”
“The Detroit Police Department is seeking information as to who used gasoline in an attempt to set a fire at Huntington Place.”
“Bristol sex offender showed ‘a dangerous sexual preoccupation with children’ https://www.europesays.com/britain/29224/ He groomed and engaged in sexual activity with teenage boy (Image: Wiltshire Police) A sex offender has been…”
“The plan continues Terrorize poll workers so that no one but installed federal oversight election poll police are the only ones who are allowed to count votes 🤷♀️”
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(usually, _, plural only) The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly, US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer.
: There are nine Principles of Police:...7 To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police; the police being only memb…
“Oh and a third in the back without the police writing, this is ai”
“IPOA raises alarm over police accountability, roots for tech adoption ahead of 2027 - the-star.co.ke/news/2026-05... @thestarkenya.bsky.social”
“What’s it like being police officer in Australia? Considering joint the vic pol - what are pros and cons?”
“It's really crazy. She files a police”
“like to file a police report."”
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