Police

Definition

police /pǝ'li:s/ n (usu the police) [pl v ] ရဲ။ ပုလိပ္။ the local/state/national police ❍ a police car/ enquiry/raid/report ❍ call out the riot police ❍ There were over 100 police on duty at the demonstration. ❍ The police have not made any arrests. See also THE METROPOLITAN POLICE, SECRET POLICE v (ရဲတပ္ကဲ့သို႔ စည္းစနစ္တက်ရိွေစရန္) ထိန္းသိမ္းၾကပ္မတ္သည္။ The teachers on duty are policing the school buildings during the lunch hour. ❍ ( fig ) a committee to police the new regulations (ie make sure they are obeyed) ❍ community policing ❍ policing strategy/measures. ❏ police constable n ( abbr PC ) (also constable ) ရဲသား။ ❏ police dog n ရဲေခြး။ ❏ police force n ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႕။ ❏ police officer n ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႕ဝင္။ ❏ police state n ( derog ) ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႕ကို လက္ကိုင္တုတ္ လုပ္၍ ဖိႏိွပ္ခ်ဳပ္ခ်ယ္ျခင္းျဖင့္ အႂကြင္းမဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအာဏာ က်င့္သံုး အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သည့္ ႏိုင္ငံ။

Examples

1. Over 100 police were called in to deal with the riot.
2. Traffic/riot police
3. Someone called the police.