police

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. police force, constabulary; vigilantes, posse; FBI, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, military police, MP, Sûreté, Scotland Yard, etc. See safety.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. police force, law enforcement body, FBI, police officers, policemen, custodians of the law, detective force, military police, M.P.'S*, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RCMP*, Mounties*, the law*, the fuzz*, the heat*, the man*, canine corps, New YOrk's Finest*.

v.

Syn. watch, control, patrol; see guard 2 .

III

(Roget's Thesaurus II) I noun A member of a law-enforcement agency: blue-coat, finest, officer, patrolman, patrolwoman, peace officer, policeman, police officer, policewoman. Informal: cop, law. Slang: bull1, copper, flatfoot, fuzz, gendarme, heat, man (often uppercase). Chiefly British: bobby, constable, peeler. See LAW. II verb 1. To maintain or keep in order with or as if with police: patrol. See LAW. 2. To make or keep (an area) clean and orderly: clean (up), clear (up), neaten (up), spruce (up), straighten (up), tidy (up). See ORDER.

IV

police, policeman/woman (Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

law enforcement, *arm of the law, force, law, *heat, *cops, bobby, *John Law, *fuzz, constable, officer, keeper of the peace, patrolman, highway patrol, state trooper, *badge, sheriff, marshal, deputy.

WORD FIND

• arrest: *collar, *bust, apprehend

• baton: billy club, nightstick

• book of recorded arrests: blotter

• bulletin or criminal alert: APB, all points bulletin

• criminal running free: at large

• cruiser’s rotating roof light: cherry, beacon

• defensive spray: pepper spray, Mace

• DNA identification technique: DNA fingerprinting

• drugs and prostitution squad: vice squad

• fingerprinting system: Bertillon system

• French: gendarme

• informer: *snitch, *fink, *rat, *canary, *stool pigeon

• interrogation of criminal: third degree

• investigates crime-related deaths: coroner

• lie detector: polygraph

• London police: Scotland Yard

• massive, organized crackdown of crime in one area: sweep

• method of operation, criminal’s: MO, modus operandi

• microphone, carrying a concealed: *wired

• military: MP

• narcotics officer: *narc

• navy ship officer: master-at-arms

• networking search for criminal: dragnet, manhunt

• paramilitary squad: S.W.A.T., Special Weapons and Tactics

• photo of criminal: mug shot

• plaster cast taken of object for evidence: moulage

• reading of rights, rule: Miranda rule

• record of criminal’s arrests, convictions: rap sheet

• register criminal at jail: book

• search criminal’s body: frisk

• search, permission to: search warrant

• section of city covered by one station: precinct

• surveillance: stakeout

• take law into their own hands: vigilantes

• vehicle: cruiser, squad car, prowl car, *paddy wagon, Black Maria

see court, law