National Police is generally the primary law enforcement agency of a country, see below:
- Afghan National Police
- Australian Federal Police (similar to the US's 'FBI')
- Bolivarian National Police
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Haitian National Police
- Icelandic National Police
- Indonesian National Police
- National Police Corps of Spain
- National Police of Colombia
- National Police of East Timor
- National Civil Police of El Salvador
- National Police (France)
- National Police Agency (Japan)
- National Police of Nicaragua
- National Police (Niger)
- National Police of Peru
- National Police Agency (Republic of China)
- National Police Agency (Republic of Korea)
- Polícia Federal (Brazil)
- Philippine National Police
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Garda Síochána (Irish Police)
Famous quotes containing the words national and/or police:
“...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the “tough guy;” today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
“Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a couple of Irishmen have a private sparring- match on one of them, as it is a government monopoly; all the great seaports are in a boxing attitude, and you must sail prudently between two tiers of stony knuckles before you come to feel the warmth of their breasts.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)