police

law enforcement body
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Summary

police ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,399 views/month, #776 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: law enforcement agency[2]
  • Part of: state[3], local government[4]
  • Has use: law enforcement[5]
  • Commons category: Police[6]
  • Has part(s): police officer[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Police[8]
  • Commons gallery: Police[9]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Police[10]
  • Described by source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[11], Q100775579[12], 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica[13], The New Student's Reference Work[14], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8[15]
  • Equivalent class: http://data.culture.fr/thesaurus/resource/ark:/67717/T1-471[16], http://dbpedia.org/resource/Police[17], http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/6367[18]
  • Different from: Policja[19], police officer[20], Police[21], military[22], prevention service[23]
  • History of topic: history of policing[24]
  • Hashtag: police[25]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26]

Body

Influence

Things named for police include Police[27], a literary work[28], written by Jo Nesbø[29].

Why It Matters

police has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] police is known by 119 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for police include Police[27], a literary work[28], written by Jo Nesbø[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. 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.

  1. 23d ago · ならちゃん · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nhk one news topic id → E0000000598
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/54972|batch #54972]]"
  2. 6w ago · TTWIDEE · 2026-08-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Archive of our own tag → Police
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Archive of our own tag: Police"
  3. 14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → police
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: police, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289950604|police (#289950604)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
  4. 15w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id → 5161
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Oxford classical dictionary id: 5161, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107287235|police (#107287235)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford Classical"
  5. 16w ago · Tholzheim · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Factgrid item id → The Color Changin' Click
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Factgrid item id: Q1790859, adds FactGrid ID"
  6. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0294304-policie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0294304-policie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
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