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police

Summary

police has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[1]

Key Facts

  • police is a type of law enforcement agency[2].
  • police is part of state[3].
  • police is part of local government[4].
  • police is used for law enforcement[5].
  • police's Commons category is recorded as Police[6].
  • police comprises police officer[7].
  • police's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Police[8].
  • police's Commons gallery is recorded as Police[9].
  • police's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Police[10].
  • police's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[11].
  • police's described by source is recorded as Q100775579[12].
  • police's described by source is recorded as 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica[13].
  • police's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[14].
  • police's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8[15].
  • police's equivalent class is recorded as http://data.culture.fr/thesaurus/resource/ark:/67717/T1-471[16].
  • police's equivalent class is recorded as http://dbpedia.org/resource/Police[17].
  • police's equivalent class is recorded as http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/6367[18].
  • police's different from is recorded as Policja[19].
  • police's different from is recorded as police officer[20].
  • police's different from is recorded as Police[21].
  • police's different from is recorded as military[22].
  • police's different from is recorded as prevention service[23].
  • police's history of topic is recorded as history of policing[24].
  • police's hashtag is recorded as police[25].
  • police's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26].

Body

Definition and Type

police is a type of law enforcement agency[2].

Use and Application

police is used for law enforcement[5]. police comprises police officer[7]. Part of include state[3], an administrative territorial entity type[27] and local government[4], a form of government[28].

Influence

Things named for police include Police[29], a literary work[30], written by Jo Nesbø[31].

Why It Matters

police has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[1] police is known by 86 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for police include Police[29], a literary work[30], written by Jo Nesbø[31].

Related Entities

Cuerpo de Protección y Seguridad Cuerpo de Seguridad

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . Thesaurus for the Social Sciences. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . EuroVoc. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . twitter.com. Retrieved . twitter.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → police
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: police, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289950604|police (#289950604)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
  2. 9d ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id → 5161
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P9106]]: 5161, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107287235|police (#107287235)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford Classical Dictionary]"
  3. 16d ago · Tholzheim · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Factgrid item id → Q1790859
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P8168]]: Q1790859, adds FactGrid ID"
  4. 24d ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0294304-policie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0294304-policie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
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