police_department has definitions from the fields of law,government
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[ noun ] (law,government) the department of local government concerned with enforcing the law and preventing crime

Used in print

(Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)

When Mayor_Dever heard of the banquet he summoned Hughes for an explanation of why he had been dishonouring the police_department by consorting with these felons and fixers .

(Dolores Hitchens, Footsteps in the Night....)

He could throw himself on the mercy of the Police_Department .

Related terms

local_department

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