a car in which policemen cruise the streets; equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters

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

A walking or marching round, as in a camp, garrison, town, or other place, in order to watch and protect it, A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts, Any perambulation of a particular line or district to guard it; also, the men thus guarding; as, a customs patrol; a fire patrol, verb_ maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol, intransitive verb_ To engage in a patrol of, To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat, transitive verb_ To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman