police

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P0156000 (pə-lēs′)n. pl. police 1. (used with a pl. verb)a. A body of government employees trained in methods of law enforcement and crime prevention and detection and authorized to maintain the peace, safety, and order of the community.b. A body of persons with a similar organization and function: campus police. Also called police force.2. Archaic 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.3. Informal A group that admonishes, cautions, or reminds: grammar police; fashion police.4. a. The cleaning of a military base or other military area: Police of the barracks must be completed before inspection.b. The soldiers assigned to a specified maintenance duty.tr.v. po·liced, po·lic·ing, po·lic·es 1. To regulate, control, or keep in order with a law enforcement agency or other official group.2. a. To impose one's viewpoint or beliefs regarding, especially in an authoritarian way: policing others' comments by implementing speech codes.b. To critique in a presumptuous or arrogant manner: policed the grammar of everyone who commented on the blog post.3. To make (a military area, for example) neat in appearance: policed the barracks.

[French, from Old French policie, civil organization, from Late Latin polītīa, from Latin, the State, from Greek polīteia, from polītēs, citizen, from polis, city; see pelə- in Indo-European roots.]

po·lice′a·ble adj.po·lic′er n.

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(pəˈliːs) n1. (Law) a. the police the organized civil force of a state, concerned with maintenance of law and order, the detection and prevention of crime, etcb. (as modifier): a police inquiry. 2. (Law) (functioning as plural) the members of such a force collectively3. any organized body with a similar function: security police. 4. (Law) archaic a. the regulation and control of a community, esp in regard to the enforcement of law, the prevention of crime, etcb. the department of government concerned with thisvb (tr) 5. (Law) to regulate, control, or keep in order by means of a police or similar force6. to observe or record the activity or enforcement of: a committee was set up to police the new agreement on picketing. 7. (Military) US to make or keep (a military camp, etc) clean and orderly[C16: via French from Latin polītīa administration, government; see polity]

po•lice

(pəˈlis)

n., v. -liced, -lic•ing. n. 1. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws. 2. (used with a pl. v.) members of such a force. 3. the regulation and control of a community, esp. for the maintenance of public order, safety, morals, health, etc. 4. the department of a government concerned with this, esp. with the maintenance of order. 5. any body of people employed to keep order, enforce regulations, etc. 6. people who seek to regulate a specified behavior, activity, practice, etc.: the language police. 7. a. the cleaning and keeping clean of a military camp, post, etc. b. the cleanliness of a camp, post, etc. v.t. 8. to regulate, control, or keep in order by or as if by means of police. 9. to clean and keep clean (a military camp, post, etc.). [1520–30; < Middle French: government, civil administration, police < Late Latin polītia citizenship, government, for Latin polītīa; see polity] pron: Many English words exemplify the original stress rule of Old English and other early Germanic languages, according to which all parts of speech were stressed on the first syllable, except for prefixed verbs, which were stressed on the syllable immediately following the prefix. Although loanwords that exhibit other stress patterns have since been incorporated into English, the older stress pattern remains operative to some degree. For South Midland and Midland U.S. speakers in particular, shifting the stress in borrowed nouns to the first syllable is still an active process, yielding (ˈpoʊ lis) for police and (ˈdi trɔɪt) for Detroit, as well as cement, cigar, guitar, insurance, umbrella, and idea said as (ˈsi mɛnt) (ˈsi gɑr) (ˈgɪt ɑr) (ˈɪn ʃʊər əns) (ˈʌm brɛl ə) and (ˈaɪ di^ə)

police

The police are the official organization responsible for making sure that people obey the law. They also protect people and property and arrest criminals.

He called the police to report a robbery.Contact the police if you see anything suspicious.

Police is a plural noun. You use a plural form of a verb after it.

The police were called to the scene of the crime.

Be Careful!
Don't refer to an individual member of the police force as a 'police'. You usually refer to him or her as a police officer. You can also say policeman or policewoman.

A police officer stood outside the building.

police

Past participle: policed
Gerund: policing

Imperative
police
police

Present
I police
you police
he/she/it polices
we police
you police
they police

Preterite
I policed
you policed
he/she/it policed
we policed
you policed
they policed

Present Continuous
I am policing
you are policing
he/she/it is policing
we are policing
you are policing
they are policing

Present Perfect
I have policed
you have policed
he/she/it has policed
we have policed
you have policed
they have policed

Past Continuous
I was policing
you were policing
he/she/it was policing
we were policing
you were policing
they were policing

Past Perfect
I had policed
you had policed
he/she/it had policed
we had policed
you had policed
they had policed

Future
I will police
you will police
he/she/it will police
we will police
you will police
they will police

Future Perfect
I will have policed
you will have policed
he/she/it will have policed
we will have policed
you will have policed
they will have policed

Future Continuous
I will be policing
you will be policing
he/she/it will be policing
we will be policing
you will be policing
they will be policing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been policing
you have been policing
he/she/it has been policing
we have been policing
you have been policing
they have been policing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been policing
you will have been policing
he/she/it will have been policing
we will have been policing
you will have been policing
they will have been policing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been policing
you had been policing
he/she/it had been policing
we had been policing
you had been policing
they had been policing

Conditional
I would police
you would police
he/she/it would police
we would police
you would police
they would police

Past Conditional
I would have policed
you would have policed
he/she/it would have policed
we would have policed
you would have policed
they would have policed

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	police - the force of policemen and officers; "the law came looking for him"constabulary, police force, lawpersonnel, force - group of people willing to obey orders; "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens"European Law Enforcement Organisation, Europol - police organization for the European Union; aims to improve effectiveness and cooperation among European police forcesgendarmerie, gendarmery - French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectivelyMutawa, Mutawa'een - religious police in Saudi Arabia whose duty is to ensure strict adherence to established codes of conduct; offenders may be detained indefinitely; foreigners are not excludedMounties, RCMP, Royal Canadian Mounted Police - the federal police force of CanadaNew Scotland Yard, Scotland Yard - the detective department of the metropolitan police force of Londonsecret police - a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition)Schutzstaffel, SS - special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration campslaw enforcement agency - an agency responsible for insuring obedience to the lawsposse, posse comitatus - a temporary police forcepolice officer, policeman, officer - a member of a police force; "it was an accident, officer"
Verb	1.	police - maintain the security of by carrying out a patrolpatrolguard - to keep watch over; "there would be men guarding the horses"

police

noun1. the law (informal), police force, constabulary, fuzz (slang), law enforcement agency, boys in blue (informal), the Old Bill (slang), rozzers (slang) The police have arrested twenty people following the disturbances.verb1. control, patrol, guard, watch, protect, regulate, keep the peace, keep in order the UN force whose job it is to police the border2. monitor, check, observe, oversee, supervise the body which polices the investment management business

police

nounA member of a law-enforcement agency:bluecoat, finest, officer, patrolman, patrolwoman, peace officer, policeman, police officer, policewoman.Informal: cop, law.Slang: bull, copper, flatfoot, fuzz, gendarme, heat, man (often uppercase).Chiefly British: bobby, constable, peeler.verb1. To maintain or keep in order with or as if with police:patrol.2. To make or keep (an area) clean and orderly:clean (up), clear (up), neaten (up), spruce (up), straighten (up), tidy (up).

Translations

警察在...设置警察

police

(pəˈliːs) noun plural the men and women whose job is to prevent crime, keep order, see that laws are obeyed etc. Call the police!; The police are investigating the matter; (also adjective) the police force, a police officer.警察 verb to supply (a place) with police. We cannot police the whole area.在...设置警察police dog a dog trained to work with policemen (in tracking criminals, finding drugs etc). 警犬poˈliceman, poˈlicewoman nouns a member of the police. 男、女警察 police station the office or headquarters of a local police force. The lost dog was taken to the police station.警察局

police

→ 警察zhCN

I need to find a police station → 您能告诉我警察局在哪儿吗？
Where's the police station? (US)
Where is the police station? (UK) → 警察局在哪儿？
We'll have to report it to the police (US)
We will have to report it to the police (UK) → 我们要向警察局报告
I need a police report for my insurance → 我需要一份警察局的报告，提交给保险公司
Police! → 警察！
Call the police → 叫警察

police

police,

public and private agents concerned with the enforcement of law, order, and public protection. In modern cities their duties cover a wide range of activities, from criminal investigation and apprehension to crime prevention, traffic regulation, and maintenance of records. In many countries they also have a political function (see secret policesecret police,
policing organization operating in secrecy for the political purposes of its government, often with terroristic procedures. The Nature of a Secret Police
..... Click the link for more information. ). The foundations of the present English metropolitan police system were formulated in 1829 by Sir Robert PeelPeel, Sir Robert,
1788–1850, British statesman. The son of a rich cotton manufacturer, whose baronetcy he inherited in 1830, Peel entered Parliament as a Tory in 1809.
..... Click the link for more information. (see Scotland YardScotland Yard,
headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police. The term is often used, popularly, to refer to one branch, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Named after a short street in London, the site of a palace used in the 12th cent.
..... Click the link for more information. ). On the North American frontier, before the government was well organized, vigilance committees (see vigilantesvigilantes
, members of a vigilance committee. Such committees were formed in U.S. frontier communities to enforce law and order before a regularly constituted government could be established or have real authority.
..... Click the link for more information. ) functioned as volunteer police. The Texas RangersTexas Rangers,
mounted fighting force organized (1835) during the Texas Revolution. During the republic they became established as the guardians of the Texas frontier, particularly against Native Americans. The Texas Rangers at first consisted of three companies of 25 men each.
..... Click the link for more information. and the Royal Canadian Mounted PoliceRoyal Canadian Mounted Police,
constabulary organized (1873) as the Northwest Mounted Police to bring law and order to the Canadian west. In 1920 the name was changed to the present title.
..... Click the link for more information. are examples of organizations that function especially in large, sparsely populated areas. The colonies maintained constables, and this office survives in the rural sheriff. Regular police forces appeared in many states after the establishment (1844) of the New York City organization. Administration of the police system varies in different countries. In Europe, especially on the Continent, it tends to be centralized. In the United States there is decentralization: Metropolitan police have the widest functions, and state police are chiefly concerned with traffic control and rural protection. Police agents of the federal government include members of the Federal Bureau of InvestigationFederal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI), division of the U.S. Dept. of Justice charged with investigating all violations of federal laws except those assigned to some other federal agency.
..... Click the link for more information. , agents of the Dept. of Homeland SecurityHomeland Security, United States Department of
(DHS), executive department of the federal government charged with protecting the security of the American homeland as its main responsibility.
..... Click the link for more information. (including the members of the Secret ServiceSecret Service, United States,
a law enforcement division (since 2003) of the Dept. of Homeland Security. It was established in 1865 in the the Dept. of the Treasury to investigate and prevent counterfeiting of currency, officially becoming a distinct organization within the
..... Click the link for more information. , who guard the president and certain other public figures), and agents of the Dept. of JusticeJustice, United States Department of,
federal executive department established in 1870 and charged with providing the means for enforcing federal laws, furnishing legal counsel in federal cases, and construing the laws under which other federal executive departments act.
..... Click the link for more information. . The fight against crime on the international level is coordinated by the International Criminal Police Commission, popularly known as InterpolInterpol,
acronym for the International Criminal Police Organization, a worldwide clearinghouse for police information. Conceived in 1914, Interpol was formally established in 1923 with headquarters at Vienna.
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Bibliography

See J. Cramer, The World's Police (1964); H. Hahn, ed., Police in Urban Society (1971); H. K. Becker, Police Systems of Europe (1973); D. H. Bayley, Patterns of Policing: A Comparative International Perspective (1985); J. Roach and J. Thomaneck, ed., The Police and Public Order in Europe (1985); J. D. Brewer et al., The Police, Public Order and the State (1988); D. J. Kenney, ed., Police and Policing (1988).

police (and policing)

the organized civil force and agency of SOCIAL CONTROL, which, in the service of the STATE, is charged with preserving law and order. It does this by protecting persons and property and bringing wrongdoers to JUSTICE, and acting as a deterrent to CRIME.

The first full-time and professional force (the Metropolitan Police) was established in Britain in 1829. Today it is funded and overseen by the Home Office. Other forces are funded in part by the central state and partly by local taxation and are responsible in theory to Police Authorities comprising local councillors, magistrates and the Chief Constable, as well as to the Home Office. (For the view that Police Authorities are more important in theory than in practice, see Simey, 1982.) In all forces the Chief Constable has an extremely powerful role in deciding on policing priorities and operational issues. This role has become even more important since the Police Act of 1964 and the reorganization of local government in the 1970s reduced the number of forces and greatly increased the size of individual policing areas.

As with other areas of the CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM in the UK, there has been a great expansion in sociological work on police and policing since the 1960s, and particularly in the 1980s. Much of the work has been in a radical or critical mode, in line with the reorientation of sociological approaches to crime and deviance from the late 1960s onwards. Some of these critical appraisals have had a clear effect on public opinion, and, to some extent on police practice. A notable example has been the feminist critique of police practices in regard to rape victims and victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse. Similarly, research criticizing police responsiveness to racial violence, while initially resented and dismissed by representatives of the Association of Chief Police Officers and of the Police Federation (the main organizations of senior and junior officers), was confirmed by a Home Office report (1981) and led to some changes in the system.

Other issues which have been prominent in sociological studies of policing have included the development of paramilitary styles of policing industrial disputes and political demonstrations; new technology and civil liberties issues; policing strategies – the debate on ‘community policing‘ being a particular focus; police powers and accountability, and the politicization of the police. Amongst ‘new deviancy theorists‘ (see NATIONAL DEVIANCY CONFERENCE) two divergent approaches have developed recently which might simplistically be described as:

a more radical wing (e.g. Scraton, 1985);
a more ‘Fabian’ and reformist wing, describing itself as ‘new realism’ (e.g. Kinsey Lea and Young, 1986). These approaches, as is usual in the discipline, coexist with others.

The relationship between sociology, sociologists and the police has been and remains an uneasy one.

Police

in exploiter states, a system of special bodies of supervision and coercion, as well as domestic punitive troops that protect the existing social system by means of direct and overt suppression.

K. Marx noted that the police was one of the first hallmarks of a state. For example, in ancient Athens “public authority initially existed only in the form of the police, which is just as old as the state” (K. Marx and F. Engels, Soch., 2nd ed., vol. 21, p. 118). The Middle Ages was the main period of development for the police, which flourished especially under the police state of the age of absolutism. After gaining power, the bourgeoisie preserved and perfected the police, which, like the army, became a bulwark of the bourgeois state. As one of the chief instruments of the state, the police in an exploiter society is always separated from and inimical to the people.

In Russia the police was established as an autonomous organization by Peter I in 1718. Its principal divisions were the general police, which kept order and included an investigative office that conducted inquiries on criminal cases, and the political police (information and security offices). There were also special service police stationed at palaces, ports, and fairs. The police were subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which had a Department of Police. The police system included city police administrations headed by chiefs of city police; police units and sections headed by unit and sectional police officers (supervisors); police stations; and, at the lowest level, the gorodovye (rank-and-file civilian members of the tsarist police serving in the cities). In district centers and districts the police agencies belonged to police administrations headed by a chief district officer and subordinate to the governor. The entire police hierarchy had broad powers. As V. I. Lenin observed, “tsarist autocracy is the autocracy of the police” (Poln. sobr. soch., 5th ed., vol. 7, p. 137).

In modern capitalist states the police are used primarily in the struggle against the revolutionary and working-class movement —against democratic progressive forces. There are two forms of national police systems: the centralized system (Austria, France, and Finland, for example) and the decentralized system (Great Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany [FRG], for example). The police may be classified, according to the main emphasis in their work, as government police, security police, crime-control police, administrative (office) police, political (secret) police, and military police. In the USA the federal police includes the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and many other police agencies associated with various government departments. State police are, as a rule, directly subordinate to the governor of a state. The local police, the most numerous branch, consists of police agencies for the counties and municipalities.

In Great Britain, the police is subordinate to the Home Office, and its operational headquarters is Scotland Yard, the criminal investigation department of the Metropolitan Police of London. The local police operate in the cities and counties. The police systems of Scotland and Northern Ireland are nominally autonomous. In France police institutions are subordinate to the General Directorate of the National Police, which is part of the Ministry of the Interior. The Paris Prefecture of Police has a special status.

In bourgeois states, private police guard major industrial, transportation, bank, and other facilities and conduct private criminal investigations.

The military police is a police agency in the ground forces of some foreign states, including the USA, Great Britain, and the FRG. Its duties include highway traffic control; the detention of deserters and of servicemen who have lagged behind or deliberately left their units; and guarding imprisoned servicemen. Also among the duties of the military police are the prevention and investigation of crimes and the evacuation of prisoners of war. Units of the military police are used for domestic control. There were military police units in the Russian Army from the 17th to the early 19th century, but in 1815 they were replaced by the military gendarmerie.

The term “police” is also used in some socialist states, such as the Polish People’s Republic and the German Democratic Republic. In these states, however, the police is an instrument for protecting the fundamental interests of the working people, and it performs the same functions as the militia in the USSR.

IA. M. BEL’SON

What does it mean when you dream about the police?

Authority symbols, police officers enforce the rules in life. Dreaming about police can indicate apprehension over failure to perform or to honor obligations and commitments. It can also be a warning to avoid reckless behavior.

police

1. a. the organized civil force of a state, concerned with maintenance of law and order, the detection and prevention of crime, etc. b. (as modifier): a police inquiry 2. the members of such a force collectively 3. Archaica. the regulation and control of a community, esp in regard to the enforcement of law, the prevention of crime, etc. b. the department of government concerned with this
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Police

(dreams)Dreaming about the police could symbolize many different things, so please consider all of the details carefully. If the police are chasing you, it suggests that you may be feeling some guilt about something that you have done or have been thinking of doing. The police could be addressing karmic law as well as the laws in our physical world. If you are feeling that you can’t meet all of your obligations and fear repercussions due to an unmet commitment, the police may be an unwelcome sight. On a more positive note and depending on the details of your dream, the police could symbolize support and protection. Your emotional response to the dream will provide you with good clues to interpreting this dream accurately. Old dream interpretation books say that dreaming about police is an indication that you will obtain unexpected assistance with a current problem.

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noun the law

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verb monitor

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noun a member of a law-enforcement agency

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verb to maintain or keep in order with or as if with police

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verb to make or keep (an area) clean and orderly

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noun the force of policemen and officers

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verb maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol

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