Polizei-

Po|li|zei- in cpds → police;

Po|li|zei|ak|ti|on

f → police operation

Po|li|zei|ap|pa|rat

m → police force

Po|li|zei|auf|ge|bot

nt → police presence

Po|li|zei|auf|sicht

f → police supervision; unter Polizei- stehen → to have to report regularly to the police

Po|li|zei|be|am|te(r)

m decl as adj, Po|li|zei|be|am|tin

f → police official; (= Polizist) → police officer

Po|li|zei|be|hör|de

f → police authority; sich bei der Polizei- anmelden → to register with the police

Po|li|zei|be|richt

m → police report

Po|li|zei|chef(in)

m(f) → chief constable (Brit), → chief of police (US)

Po|li|zei|dienst|stel|le

f (form) → police station

Po|li|zei|di|rek|ti|on

f → police headquarters pl

Po|li|zei|ein|satz

m → police action or intervention

Po|li|zei|funk

m → police radio

Po|li|zei|ge|wahr|sam

m → police custody; jdn in Polizei- nehmen → to take sb into police custody

Po|li|zei|ge|walt

f die Polizei- haben → to have police powers pl; die Menge wurde mit Polizei- auseinandergetrieben → the police dispersed the crowd by force

Po|li|zei|griff

m → wrist-hold, police hold; jdn in den Polizei- nehmen → to put sb in an arm lock; er wurde im Polizei- abgeführt → he was frogmarched away (Brit), → they put a wrist-hold on him and took him away

Po|li|zei|haft

f → detention

Po|li|zei|hund

m → police dog

Po|li|zei|in|spek|tor(in)

m(f) → police inspector

Po|li|zei|ket|te

f → police cordon

Po|li|zei|knüp|pel

m → truncheon, billy club (esp US)

Po|li|zei|kom|mis|sar(in)

m(f) → (police) inspector

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Po|li|zei-:

Po|li|zei|prä|si|dent(in)

m(f) → chief constable (Brit), → chief of police (US)

Po|li|zei|prä|si|di|um

nt → police headquarters pl

Po|li|zei|re|vier

nt

(= Polizeiwache) → police station; ins or aufs or zum Polizei- gehen → to go (down) to the (police) station

(Bezirk) → (police) district, precinct (US), → patch (inf)

Po|li|zei|schutz

m → police protection

Po|li|zei|si|re|ne

f → (police) siren, heehaw (Brit inf)

Po|li|zei|spit|zel

m → (police) informer, nark (inf)

Po|li|zei|staat

m → police state

Po|li|zei|strei|fe

f → police patrol

Po|li|zei|stun|de

f → closing time

Po|li|zei|ver|ord|nung

f → police regulation

Po|li|zei|wa|che

f → police station

Po|li|zei|we|sen

nt, no pl → police force

po|li|zei|wid|rig

adj → illegal

adv sich Polizei- verhalten → to break the law