This may be a special or local police/sheriffs, state troopers, and federal police such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the United States Marshals (USMS).
Also, it can be used to describe an international organization such as Europol or Interpol.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies, organized by continent and then by country.
International – Africa – Asia – Europe – North America – Oceania – South America – Disbanded
Note: Many of these fall under the definition of secret police and derive from that list.
A woman asking a Hong Kong policeman for directions.
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer stands watch over detained migrants aboard R-V Strait Hunter, which was simulating a migrant vessel, 8 May 2012, in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, during exercise 120508-N-IL267-082
Bat Masterson
(standing second from right),
Wyatt Earp
(sitting second from left), and other Deputy Marshals during the
Wild West
era. Some of the earliest types of law enforcement in the U.S.
