It is the nearest thing that exists to a world policeman, but it must operate without a world police force, a world judiciary or a proper world system of law.
We are broke and we can not afford to police the world anymore.
At the same time we are trying to solve climate change, police the world and send a manned mission to Mars.
Even in better economic times, Washington cannot afford to police the world.
Part of the reason is economic - the US can no longer afford to police the world, whether it wants to or not.
Colombia's National Police has world-class surveillance technology and a huge helicopter fleet to fight drugs, but is less good at dealing with ordinary crime.
In pursuit of arms control symbolism, we've reached a chemical pact undertaking to police the world for weapons we know a Japanese cult cooked up in a basement laboratory.
They argue that there are many places in the world where innocent civilians face brutal violence at the hands of their government, and America should not be expected to police the world, particularly when we have so many pressing needs here at home.
World Police and Fire games president Mike Graham said it was much too early to panic.
There is bound to be pressures on the supply side with the world police and fire games coming.
Now Thunderbirds, which inspired the look of the 2004 film Team America: World Police, is getting a remake.
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The 2004 movie "Team America: World Police" portrayed him as a raving maniac mocking attempts by foreigners to control him.
Organisers of the World Police and Fire Games have confirmed that just under 3, 500 athletes have registered for this summer's event.
The opening ceremony of the World Police and Fire Games in Northern Ireland will be held at the Kings Hall in Belfast.
The organisers of the World Police and Fire Games have confirmed the number of athletes who have signed up to take part is almost 50% below target.
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As Northern Ireland prepares for an extra 25, 000 visitors coming to next August's World Police and Fire games, the pressure is on to find them a bed.
"The U.S. Department of the Treasury is trying to become a sort of world police agency to describe decent citizens of our country ... as drug traffickers, " Maduro said in 2011, after the department added four Venezuelan officials to its drug kingpin list.
Still, eBay employs some 800 people around the world to police its auctions.
More than 75, 000 requests were made by police forces around the world for data on Microsoft users in 2012.
Soldiers and police from around the world have guaranteed a degree of security.
So this is the growing struggle facing police forces around the world today, say experts -- not more traditional terror cells, which are more likely to show up through traditional surveillance methods, but self-starters who become radicalized through online sermons and publications.
Mr Linford told the BBC that the attack was being investigated by five different national cyber-police-forces around the world.
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Five of six journalists from the now-defunct News of the World arrested by police investigating phone-hacking allegations have been released on bail.
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Mr McKeever has been a harsh critic of Home Secretary Theresa May who he described as being "on the precipice of destroying" a police service admired throughout the world.
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Beijing Times commentator Wang Yunfan says China does not wish to take on a role as the "world's police", but says that the trial and execution of the men on Chinese soil is "in line with the expectations of the absolute majority of citizens".
Evidence in the trial was provided to police by the management standards committee set up by the News of the World's owner, the Met Police said.
The police force that handled the Milly Dowler case said in a report this year that News of the World staff made it clear to police in 2002 that the paper had access to Milly's voice mails.
"It's not the most comfortable place in the world being in The Police, " Copeland conceded.
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