Deputy vs. Police — What's the Difference?

A person who is appointed or empowered to act for another.

The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and the use of force legitimized by the state via the monopoly on violence.

An assistant exercising full authority in the absence of their superior and exercising equal authority in emergencies

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.

A representative in a legislative body in certain countries.

A body of persons with a similar organization and function

One appointed as the substitute of others, and empowered to act for them, in their name or their behalf; a substitute in office.

(Archaic) Regulation and control of the affairs of a community, especially with respect to maintenance of order, law, health, morals, safety, and other matters affecting the public welfare.

A person employed to install and remove props, brattices, etc. and to clear gas, for the safety of the miners.

(Informal) A group that admonishes, cautions, or reminds

(France) A member of the Chamber of Deputies, formerly called Corps Législatif.

The cleaning of a military base or other military area

(Ireland) a member of Dáil Éireann, or the title of a member of Dáil Éireann. (Normally capitalised in both cases).

The soldiers assigned to a specified maintenance duty.

(US) a law enforcement officer who works for the county sheriff's office; a deputy sheriff or sheriff's deputy; the entry level rank in such an agency.

To regulate, control, or keep in order with a law enforcement agency or other official group.

To deputise

To impose one's viewpoint or beliefs regarding, especially in an authoritarian way

One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc.

To critique in a presumptuous or arrogant manner

A member of the Chamber of Deputies.

To make (a military area, for example) neat in appearance

Someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies

A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly

An assistant with power to act when his superior is absent

A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.

A member of the lower chamber of a legislative assembly (such as in France)

(UK) A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory.

A person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others

Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government.

The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; an individual police officer.

People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.

Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.

Synonym of administration, the regulation of a community or society.

(obsolete) policy.

(obsolete) polity, civilization, a regulated community.

(transitive) To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).

To clean up an area.

To enforce norms or standards upon.

A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough.

That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.

The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws.

Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.

The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state a camp as to cleanliness.

To keep in order by police.

To make clean; as, to police a camp.

The force of policemen and officers;

Maintain the security of by carrying out a control