police work

alternative policework

1. uncountablegovernmentWork performed by police; the investigation of criminal activities.

   All the ordinary developments in telecommunications can be applied to police work.

   1951, Anthony K. Martienssen, Crime and the Police, page 96

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   The complement will consist of 290 persons, and these cruisers should prove valuable additions to our service, especially in the line of police-work—the peace time duty of most of our ships not assigned for manœuvres.

   1899, Carl Schurz, George Brinton McClellan Harvey, George William Curtis, Henry Loomis Nelson, Henry Mills Alden, John Bonner, John Foord, John Kendrick Bangs, Montgomery Schuyler, Norman Hapgood, Richard Harding Davis, Samuel Stillman Conant (editors), Harper's Weekly, page 1090

   Many who are unfamiliar with real police work little realize the extent to which police science has developed.

   1927, National Probation Association (U.S.), Annual Report and Proceedings of the Annual Conference, Volume 21, page 243

   White officers were more likely to select skilled or other protective service positions (such as fireman) as a preferred employment at the time they entered police work.

   1967, Albert J. Reiss, Donald J. Black, Studies in Crime and Law Enforcement in Major Metropolitan Areas: Patterns of Behavior in Police and Citizen Transactions, page 16

   Many puzzling aspects of police work fall into place when one ceases to look at it as primarily concerned with law enforcement and crime control, and only incidentally and often incongruously concerned with an infinite variety of other matters.

   1980, Susan Ehrlich Martin, Breaking and Entering, Policewomen on Patrol, page 81

   As a result, there exists little or no transparency in police work at the station house level.

   1999, James Vadackumchery, Indian Police and Equal Justice Under Law, page 160