A body of government employees trained in methods of law enforcement and crime prevention and detection and authorized to maintain the peace, safety, and order of the community, The soldiers assigned to a specified maintenance duty, That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state, verb_ maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol, transitive verb_ To observe and issue warnings or correctives regarding, To regulate, control, or keep in order with a law enforcement agency or other official group, To make (a military area, for example) neat in appearance