traffic police
noun [plural] (US slang traffic cops)Definition
› police officers whose job is to direct the movement of vehicles on a road or to stop drivers who are breaking the law and give them an official notice of their offenceThe police generally
(Definition of traffic police noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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