policed in English

verb
1
(of a police force) have the duty of maintaining law and order in or for (an area or event).
The £4 million expense of policing the event, which included heavy police violence against protesters, was also borne by the taxpayer.
synonyms:guardwatch overprotectdefendpatrolcontrolregulate
verb

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1. The five security zones are policed by U.N. forces.

2. The profession is policed by its own regulatory body.

3. Backstopping is something that ought to be policed by the players themselves

4. Women policed each other, stopping rebellious acts with cold and disapproving stares.

5. Imagine it says TED, because the comments can't be policed at any acceptable cost.

6. The system will be held together and policed by a franchising authority and a rail regulator.

7. Oddly, consuming countries are also members of the International Coffee Organisation, which policed the old cartel.

8. By the 1284 Statute of Rhuddlan, the Principality of Wales was incorporated into England and was given an administrative system like the English, with counties policed by sheriffs.

9. This article attempts to fill this gap, by demonstrating how UK drill and earlier Black music genres, like grime, have been Criminalised and policed in ways that question the legitimacy of and reveal the discriminatory nature of policing young Black people by the London Metropolitan Police as the coercive arm of the British state.