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police; police officer
HSK 3
traffic police (abbr. for 交通警察)
HSK 3
to sound an alarm / to report sth to the police
HSK 5
civil police / PRC police / abbr. for 人民警察
HSK 6
head / director (of an organizational unit) / (police) commissioner / inspector-general / rank of local governor in Tang dynasty administration
HSK 6
bus / abbr. for 公共汽車|公共汽车 / car belonging to an organization and used by its members (government car, police car, company car etc) / abbr. for 公務用車|公务用车
HSK 7-9
constable; police officer
HSK 7-9
to report (malefactors to the police) / to denounce
HSK 7-9
police car
HSK 7-9
to patrol (police, army or navy)
HSK 7-9
public security bureau (government office similar in function to a police station)
HSK 7-9
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  *警* | 警* | *警
to alert / to warn / police
police
SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) / riot police / abbr. for 特種警察|特种警察
armed police
boss / sir (person with a leading role in an organization) / (after a surname) high ranking commander in the PLA / (Qing dynasty) high ranking government official / (old) courteous term used by the general populace in addressing a rank-and-file soldier or police officer
local police station
KGB (Soviet secret police) / member of the KGB
a summons (to the police) / subpoena
police patrol / patrol officer / (old) police officer
police / police cadres
to maintain order / steward (policing a meeting)
(police) detective
police officer; policeman (general term for any police officer) / police constable (lowest rank in mainland China and Hong Kong)
police dog
criminal police (abbr. for 刑事警察)
the police and the community
police uniform
police station (abbr. for 警察署)
the military and the police / military alert (announcing the approach of the enemy)
sentry box; police box
police force / police officers
police station
police detective
to dispatch police to the scene of crime, accident etc
police and criminals / (genre of fiction) crime
to assault a police officer
military police
police on trains / train marshal
police badge
mounted police (on horse or motorbike)
police classification / subdivision of policing activities (traffic, border guard, criminal etc)
warning sign / police call
police truncheon
pitchfork / garden fork / restraining pole (used by police) / military fork (of ancient times)
community police officer; police officer responsible for a particular neighborhood or community
police gear
police rank
watchtower; guard tower / police booth
(old) (military and police) pay; wages / (Tw) salary
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black / police runners, from the black clothes formerly worn by them
police cordon / alert level
(of police etc) to deal with an emergency incident
to assist in managing (e.g. traffic police or crowd control) / to steward
(Tw) police officer; policeman
National Police Agency (Taiwan) / abbr. for 內政部警政署|内政部警政署
Internet police (abbr. for 網絡警察|网络警察)
auxiliary police officer
Flying Tigers, US airmen in China during World War Two / Hong Kong nickname for police special duties unit
vigilante / volunteer (police)
traffic auxiliary police (Tw)
tell-tale / informer (esp. to police) / whistleblower / grass
auxiliary police
Brocade Uniform Guard, imperial bodyguard and secret police force of the Ming emperors
(of the police) to hunt prostitutes and their clients
(of police etc) to stop (sb) for inspection / to pull (sb) over
Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization)
secret police
(army, police) patrol
(old) police station in a foreign concession 租界
People's Armed Police
traffic camera / speed camera / closed-circuit TV police surveillance
traffic police
criminal police / member of the criminal police
seat of the government / yamen / (in wuxia stories) special police force
riot police / riot squad
Hong Kong Police Force (since 1997)
(Internet slang) (of the police) to ask to be let in on the pretext of checking the water meter / to barge into people's home on false pretences
(of police, fire brigade etc) to receive a report of an incident
border police
(Tw) (of the police) to bury a crime (i.e. conceal the existence of a criminal case in order to improve crime-solving statistics or in return for a bribe etc)
military police corps
International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)
police department / police station / abbr. of 警察局
mounted police detachment (on horse or motorbike)
Chinese People's Armed Police Force (PAP, aka CAPF)
civil police / PRC police
armed fighters / armed police / militia
Europol (European Police Office)
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Canadian federal and national police force / Mounties
police station / police department / police headquarters
animosity or resentment towards three groups (the bureaucrats, the wealthy, and the police) due to perceived abuse of power
road traffic policing
security personnel / member of police force
National Police Agency (Tw)
Cheka, a Soviet secret police agency, forerunner of the KGB
(Tw) public prosecutors, the police, and the Investigation Bureau (abbr. for 檢察官警察調查局|检察官警察调查局)
police (loanword) (Tw)
Hong Kong police
port police

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