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What (who) is police state - definition
Police state
!["[[No to police state]]" banner in [[Ukraine]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Baner NPD.JPG?width=200 "\"[[No to police state]]\" banner in [[Ukraine]]")
![Demonstration in Amsterdam against the police state (''politie staat'') in [[Portuguese Angola]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Demonstranten in Amsterdam tegen Portugees optreden in Angola, Bestanddeelnr 915-3366.jpg?width=200 "Demonstration in Amsterdam against the police state (''politie staat'') in [[Portuguese Angola]]")
![General [[Hafez al-Assad]] constructed a coup-proof police state in [[Ba'athist Syria]] to consolidate his dictatorship during the 1970s](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/General Hafez al-Assad (1930-2000), the new president of Syria in November 1970.png?width=200 "General [[Hafez al-Assad]] constructed a coup-proof police state in [[Ba'athist Syria]] to consolidate his dictatorship during the 1970s")
STATE CONTROLLED BY THE POLICE FORCE
Police states; Police-state; Police State; Police State (film)
A police state describes a state where its government institutions exercise an extreme level of control over civil society and liberties. There is typically little or no distinction between the law and the exercise of political power by the executive, and the deployment of internal security and police forces play a heightened role in governance.
police state
STATE CONTROLLED BY THE POLICE FORCE
Police states; Police-state; Police State; Police State (film)
(police states)
A police state is a country in which the government controls people's freedom by means of the police, especially secret police.
N-COUNT [disapproval]
police state
STATE CONTROLLED BY THE POLICE FORCE
Police states; Police-state; Police State; Police State (film)
¦ noun a totalitarian state controlled by a political police force that secretly supervises the citizens' activities.
Examples of use of police state
1. For anyone who did not yet know, now you know: This is not, thankfully, a police state; it is, disastrously, a no–police state.
2. "When, exactly, did this become a police state?" he said.
3. Such a decision smacked of a "police state", it added.
4. Barricades A police state inflicts a regime of terror.
5. We have no interest in making Britain a police state."