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S: (n) attorney general (the chief law officer of a country or state)
S: (n) border patrolman (someone who patrols the borders of a country)
S: (n) constable (a lawman with less authority and jurisdiction than a sheriff)
S: (n) deputy, deputy sheriff (someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies)
S: (n) flatfoot, patrolman (a policeman who patrols a given region)
S: (n) prison guard, jailer, jailor, gaoler, screw, turnkey (someone who guards prisoners)
S: (n) lieutenant, police lieutenant (an officer in a police force)
S: (n) marshal, marshall (a law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law)

S: (n) air marshal, sky marshal (a person trained by the government in hijacking and terrorist tactics who (for security reasons) is a passenger aboard an airline flight)
S: (n) Hickock, Wild Bill Hickock, James Butler Hickock (frontier marshal whose adventures have become legendary (1837-1876))

S: (n) military policeman, MP (a member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners)

S: (n) narc, nark, narcotics agent (a lawman concerned with narcotics violations)
S: (n) policeman, police officer, officer (a member of a police force) "it was an accident, officer"

S: (n) bobby (an informal term for a British policeman)
S: (n) bull, cop, copper, fuzz, pig (uncomplimentary terms for a policeman)
S: (n) captain, police captain, police chief (a policeman in charge of a precinct)

S: (n) Chief Constable (the head of the police force in a county (or similar area))
S: (n) Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria (Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin; was executed by his associates in the power struggle following Stalin's death (1899-1953))

S: (n) constable, police constable (a police officer of the lowest rank)
S: (n) detective, investigator, tec, police detective (a police officer who investigates crimes)

S: (n) dick, gumshoe, hawkshaw (someone who is a detective)
S: (n) plainclothesman (a detective who wears civilian clothes on duty)
S: (n) tracer (an investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods)

S: (n) gendarme (a French policeman)
S: (n) inspector (a high ranking police officer)
S: (n) motorcycle cop, motorcycle policeman, speed cop (a policeman who rides a motorcycle (and who checks the speeds of motorists))
S: (n) police matron, policewoman (a woman policeman)

S: (n) Mountie (colloquial term for a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police)
S: (n) shoofly (an undercover police officer who investigates other policemen)
S: (n) traffic cop (a policeman who controls the flow of automobile traffic)

S: (n) crossing guard (someone who helps people (especially children) at a traffic crossing)

S: (n) lollipop lady, lollipop woman (a woman hired to help children cross a road safely near a school)

S: (n) buck sergeant (a sergeant of the lowest rank in the military)
S: (n) desk sergeant, deskman, station keeper (the police sergeant on duty in a police station)

S: (n) sheriff (the principal law-enforcement officer in a county)
S: (n) solicitor general (a law officer appointed to assist an attorney general)
S: (n) Texas Ranger, Ranger (a member of the Texas state highway patrol; formerly a mounted lawman who maintained order on the frontier)
S: (n) warden (the chief official in charge of a prison)
S: (n) warder (a person who works in a prison and is in charge of prisoners)