The Port Authority polices the bridges, tunnels and ports around New York City and the World Trade Center site.
I contacted the Devon and Cornwall police department – which polices Exeter, where I attend university – for official statistics on spiking.
The media polices the boundaries of acceptable debate in Britain, helping to ensure that the national conversation is on the terms most favourable to those with wealth and power.
Labour was largely quiet, focusing on the unemployment figures and the criticisms of the chancellor's austerity polices by the IMF.
In one, I ended up tempted by various aspects of foreign systems, notably press regulation in Sweden, in which an Ombudsman polices a tough privacy law offset by a firm public interest defence.
On December 7th the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), which polices Britain's 2050 commitment, published a report saying explicitly that there needed to be much greater state involvement and control.
Roger Meng, the site's founder, polices the site to keep off pornographic and other messages that might annoy the government.Women also have their champions, led by a web company called Gaogenxie, or "high-heeled shoes", a symbol of freedom in China against the traditional bound feet.
They worry about a loss of sovereignty as China polices beyond its borders.
Policing has thereby become the cornerstone of conservation polices and, predictably, it has failed to stave the decline of tigers in the wild.Some of the poorest people in the world live in close proximity to valuable resources like tigers, yet they have no incentive to conserve and manage the resources sustainably, allowing criminals and smugglers to profit from poaching.
One reason, says Simon Pountain, who polices the London borough of Hackney, is that "there are more desirable items walking around on the street".
The past 70 years have provided a wealth of research and lessons learned that demonstrate the links between poverty and discrimination.The World Bank has already adopted several social and environmental safeguard polices that "condition" its funds on certain procedures that both it and borrowers must follow.
