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police force

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Definition of police force

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a body of officers of the law mobilized practically the entire police force to track down the escaped criminal

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Recent Examples of police force Masson credited the town’s surveillance cameras with capturing the fleeing pair abandoning at least one of the paintings and the city’s police force with a quick response. — News Desk, Artforum, 8 Sep. 2026 That police force is needed to create a security architecture independent of Hamas that could facilitate the entry into the Strip of a new technocratic government backed by Washington. — Dov Lieber, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2026 The nationwide police force grew by around 2% over the same period. — Alex Harring, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2026 It’s contributed to the rise of a police force for sportsbooks. — Andrew Zucker, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for police force

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The younger girl sat on the back of the bike, while the older teen pedaled and steered, police sources said.

— Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 19 Sep. 2026
It was found near a Ukrainian cargo plane on airport grounds, where German police safely defused the device.

— David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2026

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Meanwhile, police forces across the country have transformed from lightly armed constabularies to small-scale armies.

— Daniel Benjamin, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026
Several British constabularies have added EVs to their fleets for urban policing duties, often using models such as the Hyundai Kona Electric, Nissan Leaf and the BMW i3.

— Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 8 Mar. 2026

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