The police have the role to protect citizens from those that break the law. There are specific jobs with different roles within the police force, some work traffic, some are detectives, SWAT and similar special jobs.
Marleen Easton has written: 'Blurring military and police roles' -- subject(s): International Security, International police, Peacekeeping forces, Peace-building, United Nations, Conflict management, Armed Forces
Each police force has the power to design their own uniform, different forces within England have different uniforms as well.
Due to the sides quantity of different police forces in the world this is very difficult to quantify. Also there are many different government agencies which may or may not be classified as police forces, such as a fisheries agency.
There are just as many different types of cars that they drive as there are police forces. There is not just one type of car for all police. Although they can drive a Lamborghini! The UK has a lot of different exotic police vehicles.
"Bobbies" is used as a colloquial term for police officers around the UK, not just London where it originated.
contrasting the roles and functions of municipal and county police departments
cities developed professional firefighting and police forces
There is no such phrase that is applicable to police forces.
there are different police forces that cover different parts of the UK and they are not the same force nor are they governed by the same government. In essence the UK really does not have a police force, the countries within the UK have them
The noun 'police' is a common, abstract, aggregate noun, a word for the group of different people with different roles that make up a law enforcement group. An aggregate noun has no plural form.
Canadian Forces Military Police was created in 1967.
Canadian Forces Military Police's motto is 'Securitas'.