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Police ranks of the United States
Police ranks of the United States are the graded titles, such as officer, sergeant, lieutenant, captain, and chief, by which American law enforcement agencies organize their chain of command.
Police Scotland
Police Scotland is the national police force of Scotland, formed 1 April 2013 by merging eight regional forces under the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012, overseen by the Scottish Police Authority with a £1.7 billion 2026/27 budget.
Police Service of Northern Ireland
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is the police force for Northern Ireland, formed in 2001 to replace the Royal Ulster Constabulary as part of the Patten reforms.
Police Simulator: Patrol Officers
Police Simulator: Patrol Officers is a 2022 police simulation game by Aesir Interactive and astragon, set in Brighton, with shift-based patrols, conduct points, duty-star progression, DLC through 2025, and a 2027 Unreal Engine 5 sequel.
Police Squad!
Police Squad! (1982) was a six-episode ABC police-procedural parody by ZAZ starring Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin, canceled because viewers had to watch closely, later spawning The Naked Gun films.
Police state
Police state: a state whose secret or national police serves an authoritarian government's political purposes; from German Polizeistaat, first cited in English in 1851; mechanisms include detention without trial, censorship, and surveillance.
Police station
Police station: fixed base of a police force with offices, public reporting counters, and custody suites; PACE-designated stations require a sergeant custody officer; closures show mixed crime effects.
Police Story (film series)
Police Story (警察故事系列) is Jackie Chan's Hong Kong action film series: four Chan Ka-kui films (1985–1996), the reboots New Police Story (2004) and Police Story 2013, the Supercop 2 spin-off, and the announced New Police Story 2.
Police Story (ಪೊಲೀಸ್ ಸ್ಟೋರಿ) (1996 film)
Police Story (ಪೊಲೀಸ್ ಸ್ಟೋರಿ) is a 1996 Kannada action film directed by Thriller Manju, starring Saikumar as cop Agni, with Sadhu Kokila's music; a blockbuster dubbed into Telugu, Tamil and Hindi, spawning a 2007 sequel.
Police Story (警察故事) (1985 film)
Police Story (警察故事) is Jackie Chan's 1985 Hong Kong action comedy about cop Chan Ka-kui protecting a witness from drug lord Chu Tao; Golden Harvest production that won Best Film and Best Action Choreography at the 5th Hong Kong Film Awards.
Police Story 2 (警察故事续集)
Police Story 2 (警察故事續集, Police Story II) is Jackie Chan's 1988 Hong Kong action-comedy sequel to Police Story, in which demoted detective Chan Ka-kui hunts serial bombers; it won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Action Design.
Police Story 2013 (警察故事2013)
Police Story 2013 (警察故事2013), also released as Police Story: Lockdown, is a 2013 Chinese-Hong Kong hostage thriller directed by Ding Sheng, the sixth Police Story film, starring Jackie Chan as mainland police captain Zhong Wen; it opened 24 December 2013 and grossed over 500 million yuan in China.
Police Story 3: Supercop
Police Story 3: Supercop is a 1992 Hong Kong action film directed by Stanley Tong, starring Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh as police officers infiltrating a drug syndicate.
Police Story 4: First Strike
Police Story 4: First Strike (警察故事4之简单任务), aka Jackie Chan's First Strike, is a 1996 Stanley Tong action film, the fourth Police Story entry, about Chan Ka-Kui tracking a stolen nuclear warhead from Ukraine to Australia; it topped Hong Kong's 1996 box office.
Police uniforms and equipment in the United Kingdom
Police uniforms and equipment in the United Kingdom: force-specific kit worn since the 1829 Metropolitan Police blue tailcoat; now examined by the 2025 National Uniform & Equipment Survey of 27,079 wearers reporting fit, comfort and health problems.
Police use of deadly force in the United States
Police use of deadly force in the United States: lethal force by law enforcement, governed by Graham v. Connor and Tennessee v. Garner, tracked by the FBI's National Use-of-Force Data Collection, with wide policy variation and racial disparities.
Police use of firearms in the United Kingdom
UK police use of firearms: most officers are unarmed; AFOs are specially selected and trained. 17,584 firearms operations in England and Wales in 2025-26, guns fired at people in only 9 incidents.
Police vehicles in the United Kingdom
Police vehicles in the United Kingdom: marked and unmarked cars, vans, motorcycles, and aircraft of UK forces. Covers blue-light and siren law, PV performance categories, driver training, fleet size near 40,000, and electrification.
Police vehicles in the United States and Canada
Police vehicles in the United States and Canada are civilian-derived automobiles, mostly full-size SUVs, built to police package specifications for better acceleration, braking, and handling.
Police Woman (TV series)
Police Woman is an American television crime drama that aired from 1974 to 1978, starring Angie Dickinson as Sgt. Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson, an undercover officer for the LAPD.
Police, Adjective
Police, Adjective (Polițist, adjectiv) is Corneliu Porumboiu's 2009 Romanian New Wave drama, 115 minutes, in which detective Cristi (Dragoș Bucur) resists arresting a hashish-sharing teenager; it won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes 2009 and ends with a famous dictionary scene.
Policegiri
Policegiri (पोलिसगिरी) is a 2013 Hindi action comedy film directed by K.S. Ravikumar and starring Sanjay Dutt as a police officer posing as a goon.
Policenauts
Policenauts is Hideo Kojima's 1994 Konami point-and-click adventure for PC-9821, 3DO, PlayStation, and Saturn, Japan-only, set on space colony Beyond Coast; Saturn version is definitive, with 2009 and 2016 fan translations.
Polícia Rodoviária Federal
The Polícia Rodoviária Federal (PRF, Federal Highway Police) is Brazil's federal police force for patrolling federal highways, traffic enforcement, and fighting crime, created in 1928.
Policlinico Umberto I
Policlinico Umberto I, Rome's historic university hospital conceived by Guido Baccelli, first stone 1888, opened 1903; Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria tied to Sapienza, 1,231 beds, level II emergency department, 54-building campus.
Policraticus
Policraticus is a work of moral and political philosophy in eight books by John of Salisbury, completed 1156 to 1159 and dedicated to Thomas Becket.
Policy
Policy (public policy): deliberate government courses of action and the process producing them. Key names: policy cycle (Lasswell; Anderson, Brady, Bullock 1978), evidence-based policy. Distinct facts: stage models, EBP critiques, OECD trust and deficit figures.
Policy analysis
Policy analysis: systematic use of economics, statistics and operations research to assess costs, benefits and risks of government options; rooted in Lasswell's policy sciences and RAND; now augmented by AI tools.
Policy distillation
Policy distillation is a reinforcement learning technique that transfers a trained agent's policy into a smaller student network, compressing expensive policies or merging several expert agents into one multi-task model.
Policy gradient method
A policy gradient method is a reinforcement learning technique that optimizes a parameterized policy directly by gradient ascent on expected return, rather than learning a value function.