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• n  the force of policemen and officers
• v  maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol

• Despite a long-term violent crime decline, one category of victim is increasingly being targeted and killed: police officers.
• A Puerto Rican police shooting brings the Governor under fire "It was outright assassination," protested Puerto Rican Novelist Pedro Juan Soto,.
• When Kenya fired its police chief on Tuesday, the government claimed the move was a step toward reforming the country's corrupt and violent police.

• police force
• constabulary
• law
• patrol

News & Articles

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• Police: Recruiters were threatened in Antioch office
  Police have arrested a man they said threatened two National Guard recruiters with a pocketknife Tuesday.
  June 13, 2013 - The Tennessean
• Police Find Body of Missing Candidate for Mayor
  Police find body of candidate for mayor of remote northern Mexico town in drug-traffic area        
  June 13, 2013 - ABC News
• Police: Pool Water Heater Cited in NC Motel Deaths
  Police: Carbon monoxide that killed 3 at NC motel months apart pinned on pool water heater        
  June 12, 2013 - ABC News

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Family Security Matters
  At a naturalization ceremony in the Rose Garden, the president had said that the law threatened "to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and our communities that is so crucial to...
• Vladimir Putin in The Associated Press
  I understand that back home police are putting people in prison,Putin said, drawing a laugh from Clinton. "That's their job. I'm counting on the fact that the positive trend seen in the relationship will not be harmed by these events."
• Pam Iorio in The Associated Press
  They both said how much Dave and Jeff loved being a Tampa police officer. They both said their loved ones loved going to work everyday......that it was the best job in the world,Mayor Pam Iorio said of the officers' families.