law enforcement
Noun
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003
Noun
law enforcement (uncountable)
- The task of ensuring obedience to law.
- Law enforcement is the duty of police, sheriffs and other government agencies.
- The various government agencies involved in the prevention of crime and the apprehension of criminals.
- Another news report of law enforcement being corrupted, when does this end?
- French: application de la loi
- Portuguese: aplicação da lei
- Russian: правопримене́ние
- French: forces de l'ordre
- German: Strafverfolgung, Gesetzesvollzug
- Italian: forze dell'ordine
- Portuguese: segurança
- Russian: правоохрани́тельные о́рганы
- Spanish: fuerzas del orden
- Spanish: fuerzas del orden
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003