Uniformed Services

Uniformed services are bodies of people in the employ of a state that wear a uniform.

Typically the uniformed services of a state include:

  • the country's armed services
  • the police
  • the fire and rescue service
  • paramedics

In some countries the following may also be included:

  • tax or customs officials
  • immigration service officers
  • the coast guard
  • Lighthouse Authority personnel

Famous quotes containing the word services:

    “Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list—the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.”
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)