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po·lice de·part·ment

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. police departmentnoun

    the department of local government concerned with enforcing the law and preventing crime

Wiktionary

  1. police departmentnoun

    Police force, especially a local or regional branch of a national police force.

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  1. police department

    A police department is a governmental organization responsible for maintaining law and order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing laws in a specific geographical area. It is comprised of sworn officers who have the power of arrest, carry firearms, and respond to different types of emergency and non-emergency situations. Their duties also involve conducting investigations, performing traffic control, and community policing. The department is typically led by a chief of police or a similar ranking official.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of police department in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of police department in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of police department in a Sentence

  1. Janey Peterson:

    There is no series of circumstances that fits the evidence where he could possibly have done it, the justice system has failed here, and a lot of aspects have failed. And it started with the Modesto Police Department. And it started with the fact that they didn’t follow up on evidence that showed Laci was alive the morning of Dec.24.

  2. Police Superintendent McCarthy:

    And if people peel away the onion on what's happening right now in the policing world, you're going to find a police department that's doing an exceptional job.

  3. Ju Washington:

    When she does n’t comply, he proceeds to rip the register from her station before escaping back through the drive-thru window. After climbing through the drive-thru, the masked gunman escaped with a cash register. ( DeKalb County Police Department) THE ONE MCDONALD'S ITEM YOU SHOULD NEVER ORDER, ACCORDING TO AN EX-EMPLOYEE Customers waiting in line inside the McDonald’s reportedly fled the restaurant, as did a car waiting for their order outside. I hope they get him.

  4. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake:

    I will continue to be relentless in changing the culture of the police department to ensure that everyone in our city is treated equally.

  5. Cynthia Donald:

    Mayor Lightfoot had an opportunity to investigate and uncover Eddie Johnson's abusive conduct toward me, she instead ordered Eddie Johnson to dump me by demoting me to a desk job, i am calling on Mayor Mayor Lightfoot and Superintendent David Brown to address the longstanding problems sexual misconduct within Chicago Police Department and the boys club culture that enables abusers and promotes a code of silence.


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