police officer

noun

Definition of police officer

: a member of a police force

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Synonyms for police officer

Synonyms

bobby [British], bull [slang], constable [chiefly British], cop, copper, flatfoot [slang], fuzz, gendarme, lawman, officer, policeman, shamus [slang]

Examples of police officer in a Sentence

there were police officers directing traffic around the scene of the accident

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Stevante is the 25-year-old brother of Stephon Clark, the 22-year-old who was shot to death by Sacramento police officers while standing in his grandmother’s backyard on March 18, 2018. — Lincoln Anthony Blades, Teen Vogue, "Stevante Clark is Running for Mayor of Sacramento," 3 Jan. 2019 The pair were investigating the deaths of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys in a village in Myanmar’s Rakhine state when they were detained by plainclothes police officers. — Emily Stewart, Vox, "Time’s 2018 Person of the Year is Jamal Khashoggi and other “Guardians” of the truth," 11 Dec. 2018 The caravan was met at the border by about 100 Guatemalan police officers. — Fox News, "Honduran migrant caravan crosses Guatemala border, US-bound," 15 Oct. 2018 The article incorrectly said the names on the flag were of people fatally wounded by police officers. — WSJ, "Corrections & Amplifications," 20 Sep. 2018 On Wednesday, a Jewish university professor from Baltimore was first attacked by a 20-year old — and then beaten up by police officers who apparently assumed the 50-year-old professor was the attacker. — Rick Noack, Washington Post, "A Baltimore professor was the victim of an anti-Semitic attack and then German police punched him," 13 July 2018 The majority of those killed by Georgia police officers in 2017 and 2018 had drugs in their system, including cocaine, meth and marijuana, according to the GBI. — Alexis Stevens, ajc, "EXCLUSIVE: Majority of those killed by Georgia officers tested positive for drugs," 9 July 2018 Of the 315 people barred from the Bay Area’s backbone transit system last year, 209 were identified by police officers as black, according to BART data. — Ted Andersen, SFChronicle.com, "Two-thirds of people banned from BART are black — and agency isn’t asking why," 6 July 2018 Rudder, a Trinidadian Calypso recording artist, wrote the the song in response to an attack on Haitian immigrant Abner Louima by New York police officers. — Justino Aguila, Billboard, "Gaby Moreno & Van Dyke Parks' 'Immigrants' Cover Raises Funds, Awareness: Listen," 3 July 2018

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