Police vs. Sheriff

Policenoun

A civil force granted the legal authority for law enforcement and maintaining public order.

Policenoun

A police officer.

Policenoun

(obsolete) Policy.

Policenoun

(obsolete) Communal living; civilization.

Policenoun

The regulation of a given community or society; administration, law and order etc.

Policeverb

(transitive) To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).

Policeverb

(transitive) To patrol or clean up an area.

Policeverb

To enforce norms or standards upon.

Policenoun

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.

Policenoun

That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.

Policenoun

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.

Policenoun

Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.

Policenoun

The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state a camp as to cleanliness.

Policeverb

To keep in order by police.

Policeverb

To make clean; as, to police a camp.

Policenoun

the force of policemen and officers;

Policeverb

maintain the security of by carrying out a control

Police

The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and the use of force legitimized by the state via the monopoly on violence.

Sheriffnoun

(High Sheriff) An official of a shire or county office, responsible for carrying out court orders, law enforcement and other duties.

Sheriffnoun

(Scotland) A judge in the sheriff court, the court of a county or sheriffdom.

Sheriffnoun

(US) A government official, usually responsible for law enforcement in his county and for administration of the county jail, sometimes an officer of the court, usually elected.

Sheriffverb

To carry out the duties of a sheriff

Sheriffnoun

The chief officer of a shire or county, to whom is intrusted the execution of the laws, the serving of judicial writs and processes, and the preservation of the peace.

Sheriffnoun

the principal law-enforcement officer in a county

Sheriff

A sheriff is a government official, with varying duties, existing in some countries with historical ties to England where the office originated. There is an analogous although independently developed office in Iceland that is commonly translated to English as sheriff, and this is discussed below.