Military, Police and Government
- Armed Offenders Squad, branch of the New Zealand Police
- Armed Offenders Squad (Victoria), disbanded branch of Victoria Police
- Amook Bay Seaplane Base (IATA: AOS)
- Adjustment of Status, immigration concept in the United States
- Airway Operational Support, a directorate of the US Federal Aviation Administration
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Famous quotes containing the words police and/or government:
“In Africa, there is much confusion.... Before, there was no radio, or other forms of communication.... Now, in Africa ... the government talks, people talk, the police talk, the people don’t know anymore. They aren’t free.”
—Youssou N’Dour (b. 1959)
“The only government that I recognize—and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army—is that power that establishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)