LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does law enforcement agency mean? 

• LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY (noun)
  The noun LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY has 1 sense:

1. an agency responsible for insuring obedience to the laws

  Familiarity information: LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agency responsible for insuring obedience to the laws

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("law enforcement agency" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "law enforcement agency"):

FBI; Federal Bureau of Investigation (a federal law enforcement agency that is the principal investigative arm of the Department of Justice)

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; FLETC (a center in the Department of Homeland Security that trains law enforcement professionals for more than seventy federal agencies)

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; FinCEN (a law enforcement agency of the Treasury Department responsible for establishing and implementing policies to detect money laundering)

ATF; Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (the law enforcement and tax collection agency of the Treasury Department that enforces federal laws concerning alcohol and tobacco products and firearms and explosives and arson)

CID; Criminal Investigation Command (the United States Army's principal law enforcement agency responsible for the conduct of criminal investigations for all levels of the Army anywhere in the world)

DEA; Drug Enforcement Administration; Drug Enforcement Agency (federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances; goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations)

BoP; Federal Bureau of Prisons (the law enforcement agency of the Justice Department that operates a nationwide system of prisons and detention facilities to incarcerate inmates sentenced to imprisonment for federal crimes)

Federal Judiciary (the judiciary of the United States which is responsible for interpreting and enforcing federal laws)

National Institute of Justice; NIJ (the law enforcement agency that is the research and development branch of the Department of Justice)

Marshals; United States Marshals Service; US Marshals Service (the United States' oldest federal law enforcement agency is responsible today for protecting the Federal Judiciary and transporting federal prisoners and protecting federal witnesses and managing assets seized from criminals and generally ensuring the effective operation of the federal judicial system)

constabulary; law; police; police force (the force of policemen and officers)