Police

The preservation of domestic order, and civil regulation of inhabitants to enforce peace and quiet, and promote the public health and security.

Police court

The name applied to an inferior court in several of the United States, the jurisdiction of which is wholly or chiefly criminal in its nature, and very limited in its extent. Police courts usually discharge merely the functions of justices of the peace in regard to offences of importance, and have power to try merely minor offences in a summary manner. A limited civil jurisdiction is sometimes entrusted to them. This name is the title of such courts in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York. Police jury. In Louisiana, is the designation of the board of officers in a parish corresponding to the commissioners or supervisors of a county in other states. Police-officer, or policeman. The designation of a member of the force employed within a municipality, in the civil enforcement of the laws for good order, peace, and quiet. That the term police-officer does not apply to a constable, see Commonwealth V. Smith, 111 Mass. 407.

Police purposes

This phrase includes the construction of ditches, drains, and watercourses, which are demanded by, or are conducive to, the public health, convenience, or welfare.

Sessions v. Crunkilton, 20 Ohio St. 349.

Police regulations

Those laws and rules established by a state, city, town, &c., for the civil enforcement of peace and good order, and the promotion of health and security of life and property, constitutional grounds, if enacted for general or revenue purposes, are sometimes sustained to the extent to which they are necessary to a state as police regulations.

Police supervision

It is provided by the prevention of crimes act, 1871, Stat. 34 & 35 Vict. ch. 112, that where a person is convicted on indictment of a crime, and a previous conviction of a crime is proved against him, the court may, in addition to any other punishment, direct that he be subject to the supervision of the police for a period not exceeding seven years, commencing immediately after the expiration of the sentence passed on him for the last of such crimes; and that any person, so subject to supervision as aforesaid, who shall remain in any place for forty-eight hours without notifying the place of his residence to the chief officer of police for the district, or who shall fail to comply with the requisitions of the act, in periodically reporting himself to such chief officer, shall, unless he can show that he did his best to act in conformity to the law, be liable to be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for any period not exceeding one year. (4 Steph. Com. 462, 458; Ohe Mag. Syn. 320; Cox Sr S. Cr. Law, 422.) Moz- Uy Sf W,