policenoun
He's in the police force.
The problem lies with the police force itself.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

The police generally
anti-police
anti-riot
baton
baton charge
billy club
booze bus
escort
fuzz
gendarmerie
Interpol
kettle
kettling
lathi
precinct
Scotland Yard
secret police
self-policing
Special Branch
the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
warrant

police force | American Dictionary

police force
noun[ C ]
us/pəˈlis ˌfɔrs/
the group of people who are employed as police in a city, region, or state

Examples of police force

police force
He consolidated and clarified a host of statutes, abolished obsolete offences, made significant procedural changes, and introduced a professional policeforce.
Soldiers now clearly did make up the backbone of the policeforce in free cities.
In addition, some categories of workers have their own special pension schemes : bank employees, notaries, self-employed university graduates, armed forces personnel and policeforce personnel.
They do not have access to # official disciplinary structures, for example, in the form of a local policeforce.
On the following day, after several tens of thousands of demonstrators had gathered, the army was mobilized to support the local policeforce.
Another example is how increasing the policeforce affects crime.
Policing is a contentious issue for nationalists, and despite recent reforms, many continue to regard the (new) policeforce with suspicion.
The omission might be rectified by, for example, researchers systematically assessing organisational developments in a specific policeforce, or tracing the political economy of policing.
It hadn't happened during the war or in the policeforce when he was young.
His initial overview of governmental systems, policeforce peculiarities, intellectual histories, and religious traditions turns out to be simplistic and hardly systematised.
An expatriate population takes care of that by managing civil offices, the policeforce, prisons, schools, hospitals, and all public services and commercial enterprises.
Interestingly, this rivalry unfolded with some reference to the creation of a national policeforce.
They dominated municipal boards, controlled the local policeforce and acted as judicial magistrates of mill towns.
Others could include a large demonstration to back the wage demands of teachers and a home-grown policeforce.
In an attempt to fashion a clear strategy the administration referred the matter to the colonial policeforce.
See all examples of police force
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.