Police/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Crime [r]: Acts or omissions that are made offences against the law and which are prosecuted by the State. ^[e]
• Emergency services [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Law [r]: Body of rules of conduct of binding legal force and effect, prescribed, recognized, and enforced by a controlling authority. ^[e]
• Law enforcement [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

• Arrest [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Detective [r]: A person, usually employed in a state agency and sometimes by private parties, to investigate and solve crimes. ^[e]
• Incident Command System [r]: An increasingly worldwide set of procedures and doctrines for operational response to emergencies requiring response from different organizations, ranging from multiple units of the same local fire department or police force, to major disasters covering large regions and requiring national or international resources ^[e]
• Interrogation [r]: Add brief definition or description

Police forces

• Metropolitan Police [r]: Add brief definition or description
• New York Police Department [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police [r]: Canada's Federal police service, a service with paramilitary roots. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Civil rights [r]: Rights considered inherent to members of a society, the arbitrary deprivation of which is subject to enforcement action ^[e]
• Counterterrorism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• International extradition [r]: The process by which one country asks the overt judicial system of another country to surrender, to the first country, a person resident in the second, to face criminal proceedings in the first country ^[e]
• Scotland Yard [r]: The traditional name of the headquarters of the London, United Kingdom Metropolitan Police. ^[e]
• Terrorism [r]: An act, with targets including civilians or civilian infrastructure, intended to create an atmosphere of fear in order to obtain a political objective. ^[e]
• Uniform [r]: An outfit which is prescribed or ceremonial based on one's position, employment, membership in an organization or societal status. ^[e]
• Plainclothes [r]: The wearing of civilian clothing, by police, when uniform might be expected, as with detectives; there are specific rules in the Third Common Article of the Geneva Conventions about combatants wearing distinctive insignia ^[e]