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Princeton's WordNet

  1. police, police force, constabulary, lawnoun

    the force of policemen and officers

    "the law came looking for him"

Wiktionary

  1. police forcenoun

    Any police organization; a constabulary.

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  1. police force

    A police force is a constituted body of individuals authorized and employed by a government, state, or community to maintain law and order, protect the rights, lives and properties of individuals, enforce laws and regulations, and prevent, investigate and solve crimes. This body may also be involved in various community services. Members of a police force are known as police officers.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of police force in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of police force in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of police force in a Sentence

  1. Dawn Penich-Thacker:

    Now-- immediately, in your next vote--we need culture change. We need job changes. We need massive budget refusals and re-allocations to social services, mental health care, and community services that we actually need, we need you to hold the department accountable, to show us your residents that you actually care that our police force is a national embarrassment for their failures and abuses and a menace to too many in our community.

  2. Philadelphia City Councilmember Derek Green:

    The two-year-old measure, offered as a vehicle to help drive diversity within the City's police force, has been a hindrance in addressing critical staffing shortages within both the Philadelphia City Police and Prisons Departments.

  3. Larry Jacobs:

    If (the 'Yes' campaign) said they were going to cut the police force by 200, they're going to lose. They don't say that. They talk about righteous and understandable rage to reign in the police department, which is out of control, it's pretty clear the direction is intended to be quite different, and this would be used as kind of a path. The community is very well organized. If this thing passes, it's highly unlikely you're going to see the mayor and city council ignore what will be a historic bill.

  4. Jerry McAfee:

    When you have a police force operating 200 under, the distrust some of the people have with the police department, some good, some bad, and the overall level of trauma that exists within our community, it's rough out here.

  5. Madison Cawthorn:

    Instead of being the police force of the world, some people who want to say, 'Oh my goodness, well you know what, there's this terrible border crisis going on in Ukraine and Russia, Vladimir Putin, blah blah,' i don't care. I really don't.


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