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 警察部门;警方 Get out of the house or I'll call the police. 滚出这所房子,不然我就叫警察了。 Contact the police if you see anything suspicious. 如果你看到任何可疑的东西,就联系警察。 The police arrested three men and took them for questioning. 警察逮捕了三个人,并把他们带去问话。 Police are investigating the break-in. 警方正在调查这起入室盗窃案。 Armed police soon arrived on the scene. 武警很快赶到现场。 traffic/transport police 交通/运输警察 Hundreds of police in riot gear struggled to control the violence. 数以百计的警察身披防暴装备,奋力镇压暴乱。 a police car 警车 the police investigation into the killings 警方对谋杀案的调查
Culture law enforcementlaw enforcementBritain has regional police forces, which are responsible for maintaining law and order in their own area. London has two police forces, the Metropolitan Police, often referred to as the Met, which covers Greater London and has its headquarters at New Scotland Yard, and the smaller City of London Police.Each regional police force is led by a chief constable. In England and Wales since 2012 there have been directly elected Police and Crime Commissioners who direct the work of the chief constable and his or her force. Police officers wear dark blue uniforms, and constables and sergeants in some forces sometimes wear tall hard helmets (= hard hats that protect the head). Some members of the public are trained as special constables and are available to help the police in an emergency.Each police force has a Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of detectives. CID officers are chosen from the uniformed police. They do not wear uniforms and have the title Detective before their rank, for example Detective Sergeant Jones. Individual police forces have other special units for areas such as traffic, child protection, etc. The Metropolitan Police has Counter Terrorism Command which works to prevent terrorism and some other police forces have a Special Branch to do the same job. The National Crime Agency was set up to fight organised crime at a national and international level.Police officers in Britain generally carry only batons (= long clubs) as weapons, although they may also have a Taser or a special kind of spray to defend themselves with. Only certain officers, who have had special training, carry a gun. Police forces are trying to build better relationships with local communities, a practice called community policing. More police now patrol on foot, instead of in police cars, so that they have more contact with people.In the US, law enforcement is carried out by different organizations at the various levels of government. There are many thousands of law enforcement agencies. At national level, the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) employs special agents, who investigate crimes across the US. At state level, state police departments are responsible for highway patrols and their officers are called state troopers. Each county within a state has an elected sheriff and the people who work in the sheriff's office, deputies, are responsible for investigating crimes. Cities have their own police departments. They may be very large in cities like New York, but those in small towns have only a few officers. Most colleges and universities have their own small police forces.The members of the US police force who have most contact with the public are uniformed officers, who patrol usually in cars or sometimes on foot and are the first to arrive when a crime is reported. More serious crimes are investigated by detectives, who usually wear plain clothes (= normal clothes) instead of a uniform. Police officers in the US usually carry a gun.Extra ExamplesTopics Law and justicea1Contact your local police department to file a report. 联系你当地的警察部门提交一份报告。 I'd really rather not involve the police. 我真的不愿意把警察卷进来。 No arrest has been made, but a man is helping the police with their enquiries. 没有人被捕,但是有一名男子正接受警方讯问。 Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward. 警方呼吁证人挺身而出。 The police arrived to break up the battle. 警察赶到,驱散了那场打斗。 The police charged him with impaired driving. 警方指控他酒后驾驶。 I had a police record. 我有过一次违警记录。 All prosecution witnesses were given police protection. 原告的所有证人都得到了警方保护。 He spent the night in a police cell after his arrest. 他被捕后在警察局的小囚室里过了一夜。 He was held in police custody for a month 他被警方拘留了一个月。 Nine arrests were made in a series of police raids across the city. 警察在对全市的一系列突击搜捕中逮捕了 9 人。 Some protesters managed to break through the police cordon. 一些抗议者冲破了警察的警戒线。 The visiting fans returned to the railway station under police escort. 客队的球迷在警方的护送下回到火车站。 There was a huge police presence at the demonstration. 游行示威现场部署了大批警察。 A man was arrested by the police and held for questioning. 一名男子被警方逮捕并拘押讯问。 Police suspect a local gang. 警方怀疑当地的一个不良帮派。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- armed
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Word Originlate 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.