riot police

English

A unit of riot police.

Noun

riot police (uncountable)

1. A unit of the police specifically trained to deal with rioting crowds. They use special equipment for personal defense as well as for crowd control and dispersal.

   Synonyms: anti-riot police, riot squad, anti-riot squad

Usage notes

• As a collective noun, the riot police are referred to using plural pronouns and verb forms, such as they and were.

Derived terms

• riot police officer

Translations

a unit of police specifically trained to deal with rioting crowds

• Catalan: policia antiavalots f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 防暴警察 (zh) (fángbào jǐngchá)

• Dutch: oproerpolitie (nl) f
• Finnish: mellakkapoliisi (fi)
• French: police antiémeute f
• German: Bereitschaftspolizei (de) f
• Hungarian: rohamrendőrség (hu)
• Irish: póilíní círéibe m pl
• Italian: celere (it), polizia antisommossa f
• Japanese: 機動隊 (ja) (きどうたい, kidōtai)
• Korean: 경찰기동대(警察機動隊) (gyeongchalgidongdae)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: opprørspoliti n

  Nynorsk: opprørspoliti n

• Polish: oddziały prewencji m pl, prewencja (pl) f (colloquial)
• Portuguese: polícia de choque f, batalhão de choque m
• Russian: ОМО́Н (ru) m (OMÓN), поли́ция по охра́не обще́ственного поря́дка f (polícija po oxráne obščéstvennovo porjádka), спецна́з (ru) m (specnáz)
• Spanish: antidisturbios m pl
• Swedish: kravallpolis (sv) c
• Welsh: heddlu gwrth-derfysg m