Lexic.us

Definition of Police action

1. Noun. A local military action without declaration of war; against violators of international peace and order.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Police Action

Literary usage of Police action

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Cases: Arbitrations and Incidents Illustrative of by Ellery Cory Stowell, Henry Fraser Munro (1916)
"police action BY COLLECTIVE INTERVENTION THE BLOCKADE OF ZANZIBAR (1888-89) IN 1888-89 a "very anomalous" blockade of the coasts of Zanzibar was instituted ..."

2. Law Enforcement Policies and Practices Regarding Missing Children and by James J. Collins (1999)
"Odds ratios can be interpreted as the odds that a particular police action occurred given the existence or occurrence of an independent variable category. ..."

3. The United Nations System: The Policies of Member States by Chadwick F. Alger, Gene Martin Lyons, John E. Trent (1995)
"When the first Dutch "police action" took place against the newly established ... According to the Dutch, the police action took place fully within its own ..."

4. Victimization: Nature & Trends by Willem Johannes Schurink (1992)
"This study investigated, among other things, the effects of police action during 657 incidents of collective action on the subsequent rate of collective ..."

5. Human Rights in Post-Communist Albania by Fred Abrahams (1996)
"On April 18, 1994, a coordinated police action was undertaken in the ... The police action came just eight days after a small Albanian military post in the ..."

6. Unequal Protection: The State Response to Violent Crime on South African Farms by Human Rights Watch (Organization)., Human Rights Watch (Organization (2001)
"The ICD reported 681 deaths in custody or as a result of police action during the year to March 2000 (a slight decrease on the previous year).454 As of ..."

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