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police

Law enforcement body

EntityQ35535

Also known as police service · police force

Subclass of: law enforcement agency
Part of: state
, local government

Overview

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The police are a constituted body of people empowered by a state with the aim of enforcing the law and protecting the public order as well as the public itself. This commonly includes ensuring the safety, health, and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers encompass arrest and the use of force legitimized by the state's monopoly on violence. The term is most commonly associated with the police forces of a sovereign state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a defined legal or territorial area of responsibility. Police forces are often defined as being separate from the military and other organizations involved in the defense of the state against foreign aggressors; however, gendarmerie are military units charged with civil policing. Police forces are usually public sector services, funded through taxes.

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126 statements · 24% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Members / parts: police officer
detective
Has use: law enforcement
Different from: Policja
police officer
Police
military
prevention service
Hashtag: police
1
Sources
1.“(5) #police - Twitter Search / Twitter”twitter.com/hashtag/police?src=hashtag_clickRetrieved 2022-05-24
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Field of work: arrest
use of force
criminal law
Facet of: monopoly on violence
Has characteristic: Law enforcement agency powers
police corruption nature of statement: possibly
police brutality nature of statement: possibly
Used by: police state

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97 identifiers linking police across the web's reference databases

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24%

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