Sometimes on television crime dramas you might hear a police officer or a suspect say someone was "eighty-sixed,"

VOA: special.2010.01.08

He says this means establishing the rule of law, rejecting the idea of a police state and supporting the separation of power.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Last year, the California Police Chiefs Association released a report on marijuana dispensaries in the state.

VOA: special.2010.10.11

One man is in a police uniform, the other in a blue suit.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

"I did good work as a police reporter, but wanted a change.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Violence and a lack of a police department soon caused problems.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Ryan's father,Thomas Didone, is a police captain in Montgomery County,Maryland.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

Kerlikowske spent years as a police chief in American cities, but he favors treatment programs over jail time for drug uses.

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

After a police crackdown, JI members were convicted of several deadly bombing attacks in Bali and Jakarta earlier in the decade.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

The latest fatality in Chechnya occurred Wednesday, when masked gunmen abducted and shot a police officer in the southern Vedeno region.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

A police convoy heading to Kandahar for the offensive was attacked eight times by insurgents on the road.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

A police inspector at the site who refused to give his name says Haitian police have radically changed their mission in recent days.

VOA: standard.2010.01.26

In the aftermath of their arrest, the Gadhafi couple filed a civil suit against the Geneva police.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

Elsewhere,a suicide-bomber in the town of Jalula blew himself up after being stopped at a police checkpoint.

VOA: standard.2009.06.01

Mr.Berlusconi attended a mass for rescuers and volunteers at a police academy in L'Aquila on Easter Sunday and complimented them for their work.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

He says the government has turned this country into a police state and this is illegal.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

NATO and the Afghan government have agreed to build an army of 134,000 and a police force of 82,000 by the end of 2011.

VOA: standard.2009.03.31