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  1. riot policenoun

    A unit of the police specifically trained to deal with rioting crowds. They use special equipment for personal defense as well as for crowd control and dispersal.

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  1. Riot police

    Riot police are police who are organized, deployed, trained or equipped to confront crowds, protests or riots. Riot police may be regular police who act in the role of riot police in particular situations or they may be separate units organized within or in parallel to regular police forces. Riot police are used in a variety of different situations and for a variety of different purposes. They may be employed to control riots as their name suggests, to disperse or control crowds, to maintain public order or discourage criminality, or to protect people or property.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of riot police in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

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

Examples of riot police in a Sentence

  1. Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhaus:

    The riots and extreme violence against police officers, riot police and firefighters last night in Rotterdam are disgusting to see, protesting is a great right in our society, but what we saw last night is simply criminal behavior. It has nothing to do with demonstrating.

  2. Alexander Shprygin:

    They want to deport almost 50 people including women who did not take part in anything, the police are making up for their mistakes three days ago. We are in a bus in Cannes and we have been blocked in by riot police. We are not going anywhere for the time being.

  3. Gerard Risacher:

    We're not used to seeing so many riot police vans ahead of rugby games but it’s reassuring.

  4. Juan Carlos Ruiz:

    Having the military handle a protest rally is not the best idea, even the anti-riot police, with all the issues and incidents they have been involved so far in the protest, at least they are a body of trained professionals specialized in dealing with protesters. A soldier is not trained in conflict resolution : they are trained to kill.

  5. Garcia Rawlins:

    As soon as I arrived, I saw that it was quite intense ... A fire started at the building entrance and a demonstrator, his face covered, ran and waved the national flag like a symbol of victory. Protesters celebrated but a few minutes later, riot police arrived and dispersed them very quickly.

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