peace officer

English

Noun

peace officer (plural peace officers)

  1. (US, Canada, law enforcement) A civil law enforcement officer with a duty to maintain law and order, i.e., a bylaw officer, a police officer, a sheriff, etc.
    Synonym: officer of the peace
    Coordinate term: peacekeeper

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.