Definition of "police work" []

• The investigation of criminal activities (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "A little routine police work showed that the bottle had been delivered after the Levensons – that was the party – had gone off to the temple."
• "Her handwriting had never been good, but years of police work had trained her to write legibly, if nothing else."
• "Smyth's graft had nothing to do with the quality of his police work — East Aberdeen had the lowest crime rate in the Colony."