Definition of "police force" [police force]

• See police. (noun)

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• "We do not want the whole police force to know that Senator Simpson spent an hour with two arrested gipsies, do we?"
• "The problem with that suggestion is, of course, that the United Nations is not constituted to maintain or wield an adequate supranational police force in the event that a nationstate commits an illegal or immoral act."
• "The police force as a whole was divided into autonomous districts, like the Thames Valley Police, who solved crimes in their own area but might not take much notice outside."