C.O.P.S. actually stood for Citizens On Patrol Society orCitizens Organized for Public Service.This is another person, actually cops used to be called coppers because of the copper buttons on their sleeves. (Obviously this was in the old days) Eventually that got shortened to cop.
cops=policemen
The collective nouns for policemen are a squad of policemen and a posse of policemen.
You could refer to them as a group of police, or officers, fuzz, or cops, coppers. There are derogatory terms you could use, but we won't include them here.
a Squad
The Carabinieri.
posse
Why would they? A policemen would need a heavier duty blade-a switch blade simply would not suffice.
Troopers
Police constables, nowadays more often police officers. Cops. Police Officers. Police. Policemen. Policewomen. Authorities. Etc. =]
The novel is called The Yiddish Policemen's Union.
There were two times that Earl and the gang were on Cops. One episode was called Our Cops is On. The other one was Our Other Cops is On.
There were no "policemen" in the First Fleet. The men guarding the prisoners were called marines.