law enforcement

system by which some members of society act in an organized manner to enforce the law

Class type of: enforcement Q44554

Facts

4 properties

Identity

Instance of: field of work, organization^[3]

More facts +3

Subclass of: enforcement
Facet of: internal security^[4]
Practiced by: peace officer, government agent, prosecutor^[5]^[6]^[7]

🏷️ Also known as

en law enforcement ar إنفاذ القانون ar تطبيق القانون cs vymáhání práva da retvæsen de Rechtsdurchsetzung es aplicación de la ley es aplicacion de la ley es cumplimiento de la ley fa اجرای قانون fi lainvalvonta fr application de la loi he אכיפת חוק hi कानून प्रवर्तन hu büntetés-végrehajtás hu bűnüldözés hu rendészet hu rendfenntartás hu rendvédelem hu törvények betartatása

🔖 Identifiers · 39

Library of Congress Authorities ID: sh85075302
OpenAlex ID: C2780262971
Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID: 21963
Archive of Our Own tag: Law Enforcement
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID: scot/7457
Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID: 4347
BVPB authority ID: 99716
BabelNet ID: 17348909n
Comic Vine ID: 4015-57062
ELSST Thesaurus ID (Version 4 - 2023): 36c14a72-ed70-4146-9898-7b98d6f35764
ESCO skill ID: 415f816c-07ae-4ac1-9ddb-ecaa9957a249
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026): HmT4s

Show all 39 identifiers +27

Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021): 109030
Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID: 15692
GitHub topic: law-enforcement
Google Product Taxonomy ID: 1556
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID: primenenie-prava-2fddce
Harper's tag: law-enforcement
IMDb keyword: law-enforcement
IPTC NewsCode: mediatopic/20000129
Interlingual Index ID: i41314
J9U entity ID: 987007558157205171
JSTOR topic ID (archived): law-enforcement
KBpedia ID: LawEnforcement
MeSH descriptor ID: D035846
MeSH tree code: I01.880.604.594
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued): 2780262971, 2911210236
NL CR AUT ID: ph569369, ph450996
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID: XX548787
Quora topic ID: Police-and-Law-Enforcement
RationalWiki ID: Fuerzas_del_orden
STW Thesaurus for Economics ID: 19728-4
SVKKL authority ID: 0287032-prosazovani-prava
Subreddit: ProtectAndServe
Topic's main category: Category:Law enforcement
U.S. National Archives Identifier: 10636759
UMLS CUI: C0162469
UNESCO Thesaurus ID: concept547
Yale LUX ID: concept/ae0ed571-de04-43d8-b191-eb2c4eaee22a

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🔗 Connections

← Category combines topics 63

Category:Law enforcement in Europe, Category:Law enforcement in Asia, Category:Law enforcement in Canada, Category:Law enforcement in North America, Category:Law enforcement in the Soviet Union, Category:Law enforcement in Africa, Category:Law enforcement in Azerbaijan, Category:Law enforcement in Australia +55 more

← Has use 12

police, shooting, law enforcement agency, riot police, Indian Coast Guard, Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion, Icelandic Coast Guard, Special Assault Team +4 more

← Facet of 9

racial profiling, offense report, women in law enforcement, criminal prosecution, law enforcement in Italy, law enforcement in Austria, law enforcement in Azerbaijan, Law enforcement in Åland +1 more

← Field of work 6

Ministry of Public Security, National Bureau of Investigation, Superintendent of Police, Black Mamba Anti-Poaching Unit, Texas Department of Public Safety, government department of Islamic affairs in Malaysia

Subtypes 5

counter-terrorism, riot control, law enforcement in Pakistan, law enforcement in Qatar, Selective enforcement

← Field of this occupation 5

prosecutor, detective, advocate, law enforcement officer, peace officer

← Main subject 3

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, law enforcement in the United States, Interrogation

Practiced by 2

prosecutor, peace officer

← Industry 2

Lagos State Law Enforcement Training Institute, State Prosecutor's Office of Kosovo

Examples 1

2024 Kinmen Chinese motorboat capsizing incident

Facet of 1

internal security

Instance of 1

organization

Participated in 1

peasant revolt

Subclass of 1

enforcement

Topic's main category 1

Category:Law enforcement

← Category's main topic 1

Category:Law enforcement

← Depicts 1

Jailbreak

← Does not have characteristic 1

slum

← Perpetrator 1

disability abuse

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Summary

law enforcement is a field of work^[1]. It is a type of enforcement^[2].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ law enforcement is an instance of field of work (Q627436) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

16h ago · Magnus Manske · 2026-11-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗

BVPB authority ID → 99716

"Created claim: BVPB authority ID: 99716, batch #294593"
5w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗

National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID → XX548787

"Created claim: National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID: XX548787"
10w ago · TTWIDEE · 2026-08-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Archive of Our Own tag → Law Enforcement

"Created claim: Archive of Our Own tag: Law Enforcement"
17w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) → HmT4s

"Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #40849: ZGBK ID"
18w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Harper's tag → law-enforcement

"Created claim: Harper's tag: law-enforcement, Matched to law enforcement (#289947333) in Harper'…"
21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗

SVKKL authority ID → 0287032-prosazovani-prava

"Created claim: SVKKL authority ID: 0287032-prosazovani-prava, batch #259496"
24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Wikimedia outline → outline of law enforcement

Practiced by → peace officer, government agent, prosecutor

Instance of → field of work, organization

Topic's main category → Category:Law enforcement

+ 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)

"Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007558157205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"

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