police officer

     

A police officer (also known as a policeman or police constable, an colloquially as copper, cop or bobby (on the beat)) is a warranted worker of a police force.

Trivia about police officer

  • In 1910 Alice Wells got special badge No. 1 as the first female one of these in Los Angeles
  • Logically, this occupation (not postal clerk) is exposed to the highest incidence of workplace violent crime
  • A gendarme has this job in France
  • "Lacy's Law" in Colorado cracks down on impersonating one of these, & on having red & blue lights on your car