A body of persons having similar organization and function: campus police. Also called police force.
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A body of persons making up such a department, trained in methods of law enforcement and crime prevention and detection and authorized to maintain the peace, safety, and order of the community.
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Informal A group that admonishes, cautions, or reminds: grammar police; fashion police.
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Police officers considered as a group.
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Regulation and control of the affairs of a community, especially with respect to maintenance of order, law, health, morals, safety, and other matters affecting the public welfare.
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verb-transitive
To make (a military area, for example) neat in appearance: policed the barracks.
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To regulate, control, or keep in order with or as if with a law enforcement agency.
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verb
To exercise such supervision over the and activities of.
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To perform the functions of a police force in or over.
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To control, regulate, or keep in order by use of police.
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To make clean and put in order.
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To supervise the operation, execution, or administration of to prevent or detect and prosecute violations of rules and regulations.
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