Police Pəˈliːs Contact Arrested Questioning Noun House Call

• get out of the house or i'll call the police.
• contact the police if you see anything suspicious.
• the police arrested three men and took them for questioning.
• police are investigating the break-in.

police

1. an official organization whose job is to make people obey the law and to prevent and solve crime; the people who work for this organization
• SEE ALSO kitchen police
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• Get out of the house or I'll call the police.
• Contact the police if you see anything suspicious.
• The police arrested three men and took them for questioning.
• Police are investigating the break-in.
• Armed police soon arrived on the scene.
• traffic/transport police
• Hundreds of police in riot gear struggled to control the violence.
• a police car
• the police investigation into the killings

Extra Examples

• Contact your local police department to file a report.
• I'd really rather not involve the police.
• No arrest has been made, but a man is helping the police with their enquiries.
• Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward.
• The police arrived to break up the battle.
• The police charged him with impaired driving.
• I had a police record.
• All prosecution witnesses were given police protection.
• He spent the night in a police cell after his arrest.
• He was held in police custody for a month
• Nine arrests were made in a series of police raids across the city.
• Some protesters managed to break through the police cordon.
• The visiting fans returned to the railway station under police escort.
• There was a huge police presence at the demonstration.
• A man was arrested by the police and held for questioning.
• Police suspect a local gang.

Word Origin

• late 15th cent. (in the sense ‘public order’): from French, from medieval Latin politia ‘citizenship, government’, from Greek politeia ‘citizenship’, from politēs ‘citizen’, from polis ‘city’. Current senses date from the early 19th cent.