In many countries, particularly those with a federal system of government, there may be several police or police-like organizations, each serving different levels of government and enforcing different subsets of the applicable law.
Famous quotes containing the words law and/or country:
“These, having not the law, are a law unto themselves.”
—Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in Romans, 2:14.
“Our country is the world—our countrymen are all mankind.”
—William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)