In dictionaries:
Community policing
Collaborative relationship-building for public safety.
traffic policing
self policing
Regulating behavior without external oversight.
broken windows policing
The practice of assigning police resources to deal with otherwise unattended urban decay, suggested by broken windows theory.
tone policing
(derogatory) Insistence that another party in a discussion adopts an unconfrontational or relaxed attitude.
Baltic Air Policing
The Baltic air-policing mission is a NATO air defence Quick Reaction Alert in order to guard the airspace above the three Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
UK undercover policing relationships scandal
Around the end of 2010 and during 2011, it was disclosed in UK media that a number of undercover police officers had, as part of their 'false persona', entered into intimate relationships with members of targeted groups and in some cases proposed marriage or fathered children with protesters who were unaware their partner was a police officer in a role as part of their official duties.
George Floyd Justice in Policing Act
The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021 was a policing reform bill drafted by Democrats in the United States Congress.
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