policier in English

noun
1
a movie based on a police novel, portraying crime and its detection by police.
But the film is less a policier than a post-Foucault case study of the criminal as social transgressor.

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1. Le « délit de faciès » est une raison Apparente utilisée en général par un policier pour effectuer un contrôle particulier à une personne dont l’apparence n’est pas ‘standard’ (souvent sur la base de couleur de peau ou d’apparence générale).