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English
Noun
police force (plural police forces)
- (law enforcement) Any police organization; a constabulary.
- Synonyms: police department, police service, police
He joined the police force a long time ago, when he lived in Virginia.
Translations
police organization, constabulary
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: cos de policia m, forces policials f pl, forces d'ordre públic f pl, forces de seguretat f pl
- Cebuano: kapolisan
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 警察 (zh) (jǐngchá), 警隊／警队 (jǐngduì)
- Cornish: kreslu m
- Czech: policejní sbor m
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: ordetroepen (nl) m pl
- Finnish: poliisi (fi), poliisivoimat (fi) pl
- French: forces de l’ordre (fr) f pl
- German: Polizeitruppe f, Polizeiapparat m, Polizeikräfte (de) f pl
- Hungarian: rendőrség (hu), rendőri erők
- Ido: policistaro (io)
- Latin: vigilia f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: politistyrke m, polititropp m
- Nynorsk: politistyrke m, polititropp m
- Polish: policja (pl) f
- Portuguese: corpo de polícia m, forças de segurança f pl, forças da ordem f, forças da ordem pública f pl, forças policiais f pl,
- Spanish: cuerpo de policía m, fuerzas policiales f pl, fuerzas del orden f pl, fuerzas de orden público f pl, fuerzas de seguridad f pl
- Tagalog: kapulisan
- Tok Pisin: polis fos
- Turkish: polis kuvvetleri pl
- Volapük: (collective) poldanef
- Welsh: heddlu (cy) m
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