the civil force of a national or local government, responsible for the prevention and detection of crime and the maintenance of public order | | |
the end part of a sleeve, where the material of the sleeve is turned back or a separate band is sewn on | | |
a police officer's club or billy | | |
the distinctive clothing worn by members of the same organization or body or by children attending certain schools | | |
a building (or vessel) in which people are legally held as a punishment for crimes they have committed or while awaiting trial | | |
a weapon incorporating a metal tube from which bullets, shells, or other missiles are propelled by explosive force, typically making a characteristic loud, sharp noise | | |
a distinctive emblem worn as a mark of office, membership, achievement, licensed employment, etc | | |
a car in which policemen cruise the streets; equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters | | |
a member of a police force | | |
an action or omission that constitutes an offense that may be prosecuted by the state and is punishable by law | | |
a history of being convicted for crime | | |
a document issued by a legal or government official authorizing the police or some other body to make an arrest, search premises, or carry out some other action relating to the administration of justice | | |
a legal document authorizing a police officer or other official to enter and search premises | | |
the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid | | |
a document or other object produced in a court as evidence | | |
a person who has committed a crime | | |
denoting or relating to a motor accident in which the vehicle involved does not stop | | |
a person who sees an event, typically a crime or accident, take place | | |
a person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action | | |
the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another | | |
the action of robbing a person or place | | |
a reason for doing something, esp. one that is hidden or not obvious | | |
a claim or piece of evidence that one was elsewhere when an act, typically a criminal one, is alleged to have taken place | | |
A crime scene is a location where a crime took place, and comprises the area from which most of the physical evidence is retrieved by law enforcement personnel, crime scene investigators or in rare circumstances, forensic scientists | | |
a system for detecting the presence, direction, distance, and speed of aircraft, ships, and other objects, by sending out pulses of high-frequency electromagnetic waves that are reflected off the object back to the source | | |