law enforcement agency
Badge-carrying crime investigators
A law enforcement agency is an organization authorized to enforce laws, investigate crimes, and maintain public order.
The term covers federal bodies like the FBI and DEA, state police, county sheriffs, and local police departments.
Multiple law enforcement agencies coordinated the investigation.
In bureaucratic and media contexts, the phrase often appears where "police" would serve in casual speech.
- sheriffCounty's chief officer
- policeCivil law enforcement
- police officerLaw enforcement agent
- marshalArrange in proper order
- state trooperRegional road officer
detective · plain clothes · gendarmerie · arrest · Miranda rights · constable · FBI · border patrol · Europol · municipal police · squad car · counterterrorism · most wanted list · Scotland Yard · community policing · DEA · federal · interrogation
law enforcement agencycourt
Trial venue or sports surface
judiciary · prison system · correctional facility · penal institution · court system
law enforcement agencycriminal organization
Coordinated unlawful group
crime syndicate · mafia · drug cartel · criminal enterprise · outlaw gang
law enforcement agencyresistance movement
Organized opposition to occupation
insurgency · underground movement · militia · liberation army
agency, lawful, reinforce, enforced, lawmaker, reinforced, lawmaking, enforcement, lawlessness