Police Pəˈliːs Man Held Local Car Noun Bre

• a man was arrested by the police and held for questioning.
• get out of the house or i'll call the police.
• police suspect a local gang.
• a police car

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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• A man was arrested by the police and held for questioning.
• Get out of the house or I'll call the police.
• Police suspect a local gang.
• a police car
• Hundreds of police in riot gear struggled to control the violence.

Extra Examples

• All prosecution witnesses were given police protection.
• Contact your local police department to file a police report.
• Following this rule will keep the fashion police off your tail.
• He spent the night in a police cell after his arrest.
• He was held in police custody for a month
• His name has never shown up on the police blotter.
• I had a police record.
• I’d really rather not involve the police.
• Nine arrests were made in a series of police raids across the city.
• No arrest has been made, but a man is helping the police with their enquiries.
• Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward.
• Police reports state that at around 6.30 p.m. Poole and a relative had an argument in his backyard.
• Some protesters managed to break through the police cordon.
• The country looks more and more like a police state.
• The police arrived to break up the battle.
• The police charged him with impaired driving.
• The police raided his shop.
• The visiting fans returned to the railway station under police escort.
• There was a huge police presence at the demonstration.
• an unmarked police car

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.