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traffic police (abbr. for 交通警察)
HSK 3
to sound an alarm / to report sth to the police
HSK 5
to warn / to admonish
HSK 5
police; police officer
HSK 3
Hong Kong police
port police
civil police / PRC police / abbr. for 人民警察
HSK 6
false alert
traffic camera / speed camera / closed-circuit TV police surveillance
alarm bell
HSK 7-9
to be on the alert / vigilant / alert / on guard / to warn
HSK 7-9
to dispatch police to the scene of crime, accident etc
the military and the police / military alert (announcing the approach of the enemy)
traffic police
(Tw) police officer; policeman
buoy / navigation marker
civil police / PRC police
police and criminals / (genre of fiction) crime
auxiliary police
police
policeman's round / patrol / beat
police car
HSK 7-9
Stories to Caution the World, vernacular short stories by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍|冯梦龙 published in 1624
Criminal Investigation Bureau
to stand guard over / (security) guard
Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization)
People's Armed Police
fire alarm
coast guard
police station / police department / police headquarters
early warning system
police / police cadres
RoboCop (movie)
SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) / riot police
vigilante / volunteer (police)
road traffic policing
National Guard (United States)
to assault a police officer
constable; police officer
HSK 7-9
riot police / riot squad
National Police Agency (Japan)
SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) / riot police / abbr. for 特種警察|特种警察
police force / police officers
guard / garrison
criminal police / member of the criminal police
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Canadian federal and national police force / Mounties
garrison area / command
China Coast Guard
perceptive / astute / sharp / sharp-witted / vigilant / alert
Europol (European Police Office)
police officer; policeman (general term for any police officer) / police constable (lowest rank in mainland China and Hong Kong)
alarm bell
police on trains / train marshal
armed police
vigilance / alertness
police department / police station / abbr. of 警察局
police gear
police dog
stun baton
plain-clothed policeman
Internet police (abbr. for 網絡警察|网络警察)
United States Coast Guard
early warning aircraft system, e.g. US AWACS
mounted police (on horse or motorbike)
mounted police detachment (on horse or motorbike)
hazard lights
coastguard
lit. punish one, warn one hundred (idiom) / fig. to make an example of sb / also written 懲一儆百|惩一儆百
International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)
border police
auxiliary police officer
(of police, fire brigade etc) to receive a report of an incident
police uniform
policewoman
police station
police station (abbr. for 警察署)
Hong Kong Police Force (since 1997)
to serve as a warning (idiom)
police patrol / patrol officer / (old) police officer
to be on guard; alert / vigilance; alertness
criminal police (abbr. for 刑事警察)
police cordon / alert level
secret police
on the alert / keenly aware
to warn / to alert / warning / cautionary
alarm / alert / warning signal
a policewoman
(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)
warning / early warning
Royal Hong Kong Police Force (1969-1997)
to warn / a warning sign
(fire) alarm / alert signal / alarm / alert / warning
siren
police truncheon
National Police Agency (Taiwan) / abbr. for 內政部警政署|内政部警政署
siren
warning sign / police call
Chinese People's Armed Police Force (PAP, aka CAPF)
bailiff
to warn / to alert / to be on the alert / to stand guard / sentinel

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