The branches of Burkina Faso's military include its Army, Air Force, National Gendarmerie, National Police, and People's Militia.

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.

On 28 February 2011 ONUCI consisted of 7, 568 troops, 177 military observers, and numerous international civilians and Police ; the mission had received helicopter and infantry reinforcement from UNMIL during the stand-off since the late 2010 elections which had been won by Alassane Ouattara.

Targets of the CIRA have included the British military, the Northern Ireland police service ( Royal Ulster Constabulary, Police Service of Northern Ireland ) and Ulster loyalist paramilitaries.

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

In its temporary dispositions, the document ordered the transition from the former military government, with Augusto Pinochet as President of the Republic, and the Legislative Power of the Military Junta ( formed by the heads of the navy, air force, National Police, and a representative of the army, the head of the Army being president of the republic ), to a civil one, with a time frame of eight years, during which the Legislative Power would still be the Military Junta.

The military of Dominica consists of the Commonwealth of Dominica Police Force ( includes Special Service Unit, Coast Guard ).

As part of its military ties with El Salvador, the ROC sold T-65 Assault Rifles to El Salvador during the 1970s and 1980s, which are used by the National Civilian Police, and trained Salvadorian military officers during the civil war.

The military regime governed Haiti until 1994, and according to some sources included drug trafficking led by Chief of National Police Michel François.

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.

Afghanistan has ordered 3, 334 more in 2010 and 2011 for its the National Police, National Guard and other military.

* 1885 – In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North-West Mounted Police.

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.

Chiang Ching-kuo, appointed as Kuomintang director of Secret Police in 1950, was educated in the Soviet Union, and initiated Soviet style military organization in the Republic of China Military, reorganizing and Sovietizing the political officer corps, surveillance, and Kuomintang party activities were propagated throughout the military.

All military, police, and security functions are carried out by 10, 000 active-duty personnel under the command of the Commissioner of Police.

Some military roles are assigned to the civil police, such as border patrol, and border defence, which are the responsibility of a special police unit officially named " The Maritime and Heliport Police Division ", and which operates on land and at sea, using patrol boats and high-speed surveillance boats.

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.

However, whilst the New South Wales Police Force was established in 1862, it was made up from a large number of policing and military units operating within the then Colony of New South Wales and traces its links back to the Royal Marines.

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 ).

Colombian military band at Monument of Fallen Soldiers and Police in Bogota

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

Despite their dedication to their jobs, however, the citizens of Mega Tokyo tend to dislike and distrust members of the A. D. Police, seeing them as corrupt and ineffectual.

Security in Grenada is maintained by the 650 members of the Royal Grenada Police Force ( RGPF ), which included an 80-member paramilitary special services unit ( SSU ) and a 30-member coast guard.

On January 1933, Hermann Göring, Hitler's minister without portfolio, was appointed the head of the Prussian Police and began filling the political and intelligence units of the Prussian Secret Police with Nazi Party members.

After the 1991 Haitian coup d ' état which toppled Aristide for the first time, members of the coup regime, notably Chief of National Police Michel François, were accused of drug smuggling.

Police could not identify any fingerprints on the devices other than those of the officers who had disarmed them ; however, Soliah's fingerprint, handwriting and signature were identified on a letter sent to order a fuse that could only be used for bomb-making purposes, and components matching those used in the police car bombs were found in a locked closet at the Precida Avenue hideout that Soliah lived in with the other members of SLA.

* 1974 – Police in Los Angeles, California, raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.

* 1985 – Police storm MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.

Kennedy oversaw 900 federal, state, and local law enforcement personnel including 300 FBI agents, 200 officers from the Oklahoma City Police Department, 125 members of the Oklahoma National Guard, and 55 officers from the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety.

Soltysik was one of the six SLA members killed in a shootout with Los Angeles Police Department on 17 May 1974.

In addition, by 1939 the SS had complete control over the German Police, with many police member serving as dual SS members.

The Royal St. Kitts and Nevis Police Force has about 370 members.

All uniform branches of the Hong Kong ( Police, Police Auxiliary, Police Pipeband, Fire ( including Ambulance service members ), Immigration, Customs, Correctional Services, Government Flying Service, Civil Aid Service ) salute according to British Army traditions.

* November 24 – In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 9 members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U. S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.

In 1999 the KLA was officially disbanded and their members entered other armed groups such as various Albanian Macedonian rebels, the UCPMB in the Preševo Valley region and UNMIK instituted NGOs within Kosovo such as the Kosovo Protection Corps ( in accordance with UNSC resolution 1244 which required the establishment of a civilian emergency protection body to replace the former KLA ) and Kosovo Police Force.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, gang violence and incidents between the Omaha Police Department and members of the African-American community aggravated relations between groups in North and South Omaha.

The mobilization included 8, 200 members of the People ’ s Police, 3, 700 members of the mobile police, 12, 000 factory militia members, and 4, 500 State Security officers.

Police, stewards and members of the St. John Ambulance service were overwhelmed.