state police

American  

noun

1. a police force under state authority rather than under the authority of a city or county in the state.

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Example Sentences

Now he must hide from the state police, who guard the depot at Lecheria, a gritty industrial neighborhood on the northwestern outskirts of Mexico City.

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If the state police did not stop them, they expected the march to last at least four days, allowing plenty of time for press coverage.

From Literature

Near Monroe, Georgia, about an hour east of Atlanta, Luma was cruising in the right-hand lane when she looked out the driver’s-side window and saw a Georgia state police car riding alongside her.

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When Charley Bloom answered, two men in state police uniforms, both men wearing sunglasses, were standing on the front stoop.

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Abby then steered out of the Enchanted Land parking lot, only to be pulled over by a wailing, flashing state police car.

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