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Meaning of police in English

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Industrialization, poverty, and unemployment gave rise to property, as opposed to people-related, offences on a scale that transcended ethnic boundaries and necessitated new policing methods.
By involving local people in the management of protected areas, the authorities could offer employment to local communities, while reducing the cost of policing.
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Participants heard how difficult it is to stop a determined thief, which may have curtailed support for policing and obviation.
The same considerations should, presumably, underpin reviews of policing in democratic societies.
Ghanaian policing has much in common with policing elsewhere.
However, the issue of policing remains highly contentious.
No longer was the state responsible for policing the health of society: everyone was to be his or her own policeman.
Adapting postwar social polices to new social risks.
Given its expected role in deterring crime, punishment was a significant aspect of policing in this period.
In addition to the previous issue, problems of rigidity in policing the system become relevant.
Criticisms focused upon the arboretum's appearance, policing problems, access and funding.
Rather, reform emerged out of and re-ected the various forms of policing that had evolved at the local level over the previous 100 years.
With the appointment of his new gardes, the burden of policing the craft would be transferred to the state.
Within this discursive framework there are both an explicit denial that policing changes have occurred, and a call for an entirely "new" form of policing.
The history of modern policing itself indicates longstanding concern with excessive, sometimes brutal, control over citizens by law enforcement agents.

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campus police
Select criminal justice students also serve as cadets on the campus police force.
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local police
They do not have access to # official disciplinary structures, for example, in the form of a local police force.
metropolitan police
The reputation of the metropolitan police who took the final decision to disperse the meeting was tarnished by this episode.
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警察當局,警方, 員警, 維持…的治安,巡查…
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police, (de) police, envoyer des agents…
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policia…
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شُرْطة…
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policie, policejní, obsadit policií…
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politi, politi-, patruljere…
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polisi, menyediakan tenaga polisi…
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ตำรวจ, รักษาความสงบเรียบร้อย…
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cảnh sát, giữ trật tự…
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policja, Police ma tylko liczbę mnogą!…
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polis, menempatkan polis…
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die Polizei, Polizei-…, überwachen…
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politi, utføre polititjeneste, holde ro og orden…
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경찰…
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polícia…
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警察当局,警方, 警察, 维持…的治安,巡查…
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polizia, di polizia, (presidiare con la polizia)…
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полиция…
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policía, vigilar, mantener el orden…
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