vt to keep in order by police.
2. police ·vt to make clean; as, to police a camp.
3. police ·noun the cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state / a camp as to cleanliness.
4. police ·noun that which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.
5. police ·noun military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.
6. police ·noun the organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws.
7. police ·noun a judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, ·etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough.