In France, esp. Paris: a municipal officer responsible for policing a district of a city. Cf. quarter, n. 13b. Obsolete. rare.

An East Indian soldier; also, one of the native police.

In parts of South and South-East Asia. A foot soldier or low-ranking police officer. Obsolete.

An Italian police officer.

In the French army. A French police officer. Obsolete exc. Historical.

An armed constable or police officer, an armed servant or courier (in Turkey).

A native Egyptian policeman; a guardian, watchman.

a member of the state constabulary of Texas (formerly, of certain locally mustered regiments in the federal service during the Mexican War).

A member of an Italian Army Corps which serves as a police force.

A Turkish policeman.

An appellation for a member of the Boer police force in the pre-1902 South African Republic; a Boer constable.

A French policeman.

In New Guinea, a European patrol officer or policeman.

In Germany, a policeman; also collective, the police force.

Irish English. Usually with capital initial. A member of the Irish police force; a Garda (Garda, n. b). Often in plural, as the Guards: the police.

A member of a provincial police force in Canada. Now rare.

A member of the Garda Síochána; an Irish policeman. Used in plural for the police generally.

(A member of) the Volkspolizei (see Volkspolizei, n.).