Police

:This article is about law enforcement. For the band, see The Police. For the town in Poland, see Police, Poland.

Related articles

• List of Law Enforcement Agencies

Police roles

• Auxiliary police
• Bailiff
• Civil police
• Constable
• County police
• Cybercop
• Detective
• Federal police
• Fire police
• Gendarmerie
• Highway patrol
• Marshal
• Military police
• Mounted police
• National police
• Park ranger
• Police Explorers
• Riot police
• Security police
• Secret police
• Sheriff
• Special police
• State police
• Tipstave
• Transit police
• Water police

Ethical issues related to police

• Police brutality
• Racial profiling
• Speed traps
• Sting operations

Related concepts

• Crime
• Crimestoppers
• Courts
• Forensics
• Law
• Police station
• Posse comitatus
• Wanted poster

Notable historical police personalities

• Joe Arpaio
• Alphonse Bertillon
• Grover Cleveland
• James E. Davis
• Wyatt Earp
• Izzy Einstein
• Aida D. Fariscal
• Daniel Faulkner
• Louis Freeh
• Mark Fuhrman
• Pat Garrett
• Darryl F. Gates
• Doc Holliday
• J. Edgar Hoover
• Elisha Keeney
• Ray Kelly
• Bernard Kerik
• Bat Masterson
• Charles Moose
• Eliot Ness
• Padikkal
• Robert Peel
• Allan Pinkerton
• Jeffrey Postell
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Frank Serpico
• Sam Steele
• David Toma
• John Varrone
• Eugène François Vidocq
• August Vollmer
• Juan Vucetich
• Joseph Wambaugh
• Sir Arthur Young

For fictional accounts of police work, see: Crime fiction.

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Notable police officers better known in other walks of life

• Nicola Calipari, Italian intelligence officer (Polizia di Stato)
• Jessie Camacho, American contestant on ' (Altamonte Springs Police Department/Orange County Sheriff's Office)
• Geoff Capes, British strongman (Metropolitan Police)
• John Reginald Christie, British serial killer (Metropolitan Police War Reserve)
• Bill Clark, American screenwriter and producer of NYPD Blue (New York City Police Department)
• Lynn "Buck" Compton, American army officer featured in Band of Brothers (Los Angeles Police Department)
• Ronnie Coleman, seven-time Mr. Olympia
• Rico Constantino, ex-WWE wrestler (Las Vegas Police Department)
• Lisa Dalton, American actress and drama teacher (Englewood Police Department)
• Jimmie Davis, singer and Governor of Louisiana (Shreveport Police Department)
• Christopher Dean, British ice dancer (Nottinghamshire Police)
• Dave Dee, British singer (Metropolitan Police)
• Reed Diamond, American actor (Los Angeles Police Department)
• John DiResta, American comedian and actor (New York City Transit Police/New York City Police Department)
• Seán Doherty, Irish politician (Garda Síochána)
• Dennis Farina, American actor (Chicago Police Department)
• Robert Emmett Fitzsimmons, American actor (New York City Police Department)
• Errol Flynn, Australian actor
• Kam Fong Chun, American actor (Honolulu Police Department)
• Don Galloway, American actor (San Bernardino Sheriff's Department Reserve)
• Lucy Gannon, British screenwriter (Royal Military Police)
• Deryck Guyler, British actor (Royal Air Force Police)
• Rafael Hernández, Spanish actor
• Maralyn Hershey, American contestant on ' (DC Metropolitan Police Department)
• Charlotte Hobrough, winner of British Survivor
• Robert Holmes, British screenwriter (Metropolitan Police)
• Al Hoxie, American silent movie actor (Anaheim Police Department)
• Reina Leone, American porn actress (San Francisco Sheriff's Department)
• Walter Long, American actor (United States Army Military Police Corps)
• Arthur McKenzie, British screenwriter (Northumbria Police)
• Victor McLaglen, British actor (British Army Provost Marshal)
• Eddie Money, American musician (New York City Police Department)
• Dennis Nilsen, British serial killer (Metropolitan Police)
• Sergio Oliva, Cuban-born American weightlifter and bodybuilder (Chicago Police Department)
• Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player (Los Angeles Port Police Reserve/Miami Beach Police Reserve)
• George Orwell, British author (Burma Police)
• Ken Osmond, American actor (Los Angeles Police Department)
• John Powell, American discus thrower (San Jose Police Department)
• Ray Reardon, British snooker player (Stoke-on-Trent City Police)
• Phil Regan, American tenor (New York City Police Department)
• Rick Rescorla, British-born American security official (British South Africa Police/Metropolitan Police)
• Nicholas Rhea, British novelist
• Chuck Roberson, American stuntman (Culver City Police Department)
• Gene Roddenberry, American producer of Star Trek (Los Angeles Police Department)
• Talbot Rothwell, British screenwriter for the Carry On film series
• Sathyan, Indian actor (Kerala Police)
• John Savident, British actor (Manchester City Police)
• Kim Taylforth, British actress (Metropolitan Police)
• Dan White, American murderer (San Francisco Police Department)