Costa Rica has no military but maintains domestic Police and armed National Guard forces securing its interests.

The budget previously dedicated to the military now is dedicated to security, education and culture ; the country maintains Police Guard forces.

In Asia, Chinese armed forces use crossbows at all unit levels from traffic police to the special force Snow Leopard Commando Unit of the People's Armed Police and the People's Liberation Army.

Christadelphians refuse to participate in any military ( and Police forces ) because they are conscientious objectors.

Police Commissioner Bob Hauk ( Lee Van Cleef ) offers a deal to special forces soldier turned criminal " Snake " Plissken ( Kurt Russell ): If he rescues the president and retrieves a secret cassette tape within 24 hours, Hauk will give him a full pardon.

The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat.

In addition, regime security forces include the National Police Force ( Sûreté National ).

These international troops have been criticized for cooperating with rebel forces, refusing to disarm them, and integrating former military and death-squad ( FRAPH ) members into the re-militarized Haitian National Police force following the coup.

Haiti's current forces consist of the Haitian National Police, which has several paramilitary units, a highly trained and equipped SWAT team, and the Haitian Coast Guard.

From 1943 forward, he was both Chief of German Police and Minister of the Interior, overseeing all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo ( Secret State Police ).

Frick acquiesced, and on 17 June 1936 Hitler appointed Himmler as Chief of German Police and decreed the unification of all police forces.

The security forces are composed of the Lesotho Defence Force ( LDF ) and the Lesotho Mounted Police Service.

Mali's armed forces are the Army, Air Force, Gendarmerie, Republican Guard, National Guard, and National Police ( Sûreté Nationale ).

He was later killed in Doti, far-western Nepal by RNA forces while trying to loot a Nepal Police post.

Police forces sometimes use excessive force in quelling violent demonstrations, or demonstrations that may upset ' friendly countries '.

The National Police of Peru is often classified as a part of the armed forces.

The Peruvian armed forces report through the Ministry of Defense, while the National Police of Peru, through the Ministry of Interior.

Police forces are often defined as being separate from military or other organizations involved in the defense of the state against foreign aggressors ; however, gendarmerie and military police are military units charged with civil policing.

Even today, many British police forces are referred to officially by the term " Constabulary " rather than " Police ".

It was followed in 1834 by the Toronto Police, and in 1838 by police forces in Montreal and Quebec City.

The merger of these two police forces in 1920 formed the world famous Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

The passing of the Police Regulation Act of 1862 essentially tightly regulated and centralised all of the police forces operating throughout the Colony of New South Wales.

Police forces are usually organized and funded by some level of government.

Police often have specialist units for handling armed offenders, and similar dangerous situations, and can ( depending on local laws ), in some extreme circumstances, call on the military ( since Military Aid to the Civil Power is a role of many armed forces ).

Within a year of Tito ` s death the first cracks began to show when in the spring of 1981 when on 11 March, 26 March, and 31 March to 2 April an escalating series of increasingly large protests spread from the campus of the University of Pristina to the streets of several cities in Kosovo demanding the upgrading of the Autonomous Region to the status of full Republic – these protests were violently suppressed by the Police with many deaths, and a state of emergency was declared.

This meeting was violently broken up by the authorities on orders from Romanian Police prefect Constantin Manciu.

Demonstrators clashed violently with the Hong Kong Police Force.

Specifically, as of 15 December 1969, the Lotta Continua newspaper directed by Sofri explicitly claimed that Calabresi had to be " shot dead " and the press campaign against the Police officer violently continued during the next few days.

The family dispersed and Cary had uncles who served in the frontier US Cavalry and the Canadian North-West Mounted Police.

Police dispersed a demonstration in Arraba with tear gas and live ammunition.

Police dispersed the riots with tear gas and live ammunition.

Later marches of the CRM were dispersed with particular dispatch by the National Guard, Hacienda Police, National Police and paramilitaries.

They claim that at no point did the Police request the party be dispersed, however, the Police released a statement contradicting this claim.

Police learned of the plan and dispersed the meeting.

Police from surrounding jurisdictions were called in and the crowds finally dispersed when a heavy rain started to fall early Sunday morning.

Romanian Police was criticized for its failure to intervene and prevent violence, despite being made aware of the potential for conflict — in Bolintin Deal, 22 out of 26 Ursari houses were burned before the Jandarmeria and fire service dispersed the mob.

Led by Major Sam Steele, a force of North-West Mounted Police, Alberta Mounted Rifles and Steele's Scouts ( a body of mounted militia raised by Steele himself ) caught up with and dispersed a band of Plains Cree warriors and their white and Métis hostages.

Police immediately moved in as protesters gathered in the morning for the protest and dispersed the gathering saying it is illegal.

In summer of 2001 several thousand members of the People's Armed Police and the Public Security Bureau descended on the site, razing its structures and dispersed its students.

The story focuses on the members of the A. D. Police, an advanced group of officers tasked with stopping terrorist activities and Boomer crimes in the city of Mega Tokyo.

The A. D. Police are an elite group of highly trained and specially equipped police officers, who have been formed to deal with terrorist activities and Boomer crimes in the city of Mega Tokyo.

* 2009 – The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities.

In the military ( and also the Police and GSU ), there is a virtual monopoly of President Moi ’ s ethnic group, the Kalenjin, in the top brass.

* 1960 – Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.

* Neighbourhood Policing Team, UK Police term for a group of officers dedicated to policing specific neighbourhoods

On September 16, 1957, a coup group led by Field Marshal Srisdi Dhanarajata successfully organized a 2500 military coup ousting Field Marshal Luang Phibulsongkram, Field Marshal Phin Choonhavan and Police General Phao Sriyanonda ( the Phibul-Phin-Phao clique ) from power.

* September 27 – Feast of the Cross according to the Old Calendar ; A celestial cross appears over Athens, Greece, while the Greek Police pursues a group of Greek Old Calendarists.

Once filming of Breezy had finished, Warner Brothers announced that Eastwood had agreed to reprise his role as Detective Harry Callahan in Magnum Force ( 1973 ), a sequel to Dirty Harry, about a group of rogue young officers ( among them David Soul, Robert Urich and Tim Matheson ) in the San Francisco Police Force who systematically exterminate the city's worst criminals.

Police lineups, where the eyewitness picks out a suspect from a group of people in the police station, are often grossly suggestive, and give the false impression that the witness remembered the suspect.

Tournament officials evicted the group en masse from the stadium upon which they were arrested and held by the Police.

On 10 March 2003, the Police were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and performed " Roxanne ", " Message In a Bottle ", and " Every Breath You Take " live, as a group ( the last song was performed alongside Steven Tyler, Gwen Stefani, and John Mayer ).

On 29 September 2007, Henry Padovani joined the group on stage for the final encore of their show in Paris, and the Police played " Next to You " as a 4-piece band.

On March 26, 1885, the 150 to 200 Métis and Aboriginal warriors under the command of Gabriel Dumont defeated a combined group of 90 Prince Albert Volunteers and North-West Mounted Police led by their superintendent Leif Newry Fitzroy Crozier at Duck Lake, outside Batoche.

At the time of the 1977 Mogadishu mission, the Commander of the Israeli Border Police Tzvi War described GSG 9 as " The best anti-terrorist group in the world.

" Additionally, the group sought " to ensure that the Sheriff's Office or the Town Police are never allowed to waste valuable Town resources ... to oppress our residents by the investigation or enforcement of violations of Laws that punish Truancy, Drug Trafficking, Prostitution, Obscenity, Organ Trafficking, and other Victimless ' Crimes '.

The National Police Agency publicly stated that a successor group to the JRA was founded called Movement Rentai.

The custom Berkley Police cruiser, complete with a 502-CID V8 and flames, donated by a group of residents for use in the Woodward Dream Cruise.

The Shelby Police Department works jointly with METRICH, an investigative group that began in 1986 with a goal of reducing availability of illegal drugs in Richland County region.

Southern rock group 38 Special used the Collingdale Police force in making the video for their song " Back Where You Belong ".

In July 1910, a group of striking coal miners were authorized to conduct a protest by the borough's Chief of Police, William B. Keltz.

Well-known 1970s-era power trios include the Canadian progressive rock group Rush ; The American band out of Texas ZZ Top, the British heavy metal band Motörhead ; The Jam ; Robin Trower and The Police.

After a brief career in law enforcement where he served the New York City Police Department as an investigator, Rivera returned to law and became a lawyer for a New York Puerto Rican activist group, the Young Lords, and attracted the attention of WABC-TV news director Al Primo when he was interviewed about the group's occupation of an East Harlem church in 1969.

The FIR lodged by Sub-Inspector Ram Dube, Police Station Ayodhya, on December 23, 1949 states: " A group of 50-60 persons had entered Babri Mosque after breaking the compound gate lock of the mosque or through jumping across the walls ... and established therein an idol of Shri Bhagwan and painted Sita Ram, on the outer and inner walls with geru ( red loam )...

In 2003 the Oakland, CA Police Dept infiltrated a group of peaceful anti-war protestors at the port.